Needle Felted Pumpkin
Materials List:
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Layout a rectangle shape of core wool.
Start rolling each end inward towards the middle, felting as you go.
Felt and shape into the pumpkin shape.
Keep pulling up the edges towards the center to get a round shape.
Pinch the edges and felt into a pumpkin shape
Next, take at 2 or 3 shades of pumpkin orange and mix them together. You can do this with your hands or, as in this case, inexpensive dog grooming brushes.
Take the wool that you have blended together and gently curve over the pumpkin. Felt this down.
After you have the top coat of the pumpkin to your liking, felt down the ridges of the pumpkin. You want to have slight indentations at equal intervals all around the circumference.
I added a wee bit of off white to set off and also soften the oranges. Keep working on the color and getting the striations just as you like them.
To make a leaf you can felt a circle and cut the leaf out of that (and tuck in and felt down the edges) or you can simply felt this shape as you go.
The stem is a pipe cleaner tightly wrapped with the leaf color, felted tightly and then felted to the pumpkin base.
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