This project came about in kind of a funny way. So you get the story first then the tutorial.
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I was recently at a craft show that let's just say had a bit of a slow start. I don't know how many of you, my Sweater Surgery readers do craft shows as vendors but if you do then I bet you have participated in a slow one here and there. Well I first did what the teenage girls were doing across the way and started texting like fiend to everyone I could think of to come to the show.
Then I said to myself, "I am sitting here with a pile of wool felted sweaters and my
Sizzix die cutter. Get off your but and make stuff!" So that is exactly what I did.
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I cut a whole bunch of flower shapes using all the different flower dies I had out of two different orange sweaters and stacked them up in a pumpkin shape.
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To secure the stack of flowers I bent a piece of floral wire into a "u" shape and poked it through the stack from the bottom to the top. I twisted the wire together and trimmed one end short and left the other about 3/4 of an inch long to put a small piece of green sweater over to form the pumpkin stem.
The recycle wool felted sweater pumpkin is
crocheted eyeball approved.
1 comment:
Brilliant! I love the pumpkin. Please tell us about those creepy eyeballs as well.
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