Decorate your home with these easy to sew fabric pumpkins!
It’s the beautiful autumn season and we see pumpkins everywhere. Going through my fabric stash I found some pretty fall color fabrics and decided to sew pumpkins for my home. I also had some old jeans I wanted to
repurpose and this easy to sew fabric pumpkins project was perfect to do so. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link I will earn a small commission, but it won’t cost you a penny more)!
If you are looking for a superb online store to buy fabric, I highly recommend fabric.com. They have a wide array of fabric colors and textures so that’s where most of my stash comes from. In addition to fabric.com I also shop at Joann, either at my local store or Joann.com for convenience.
Free pumpkin stems template ready to print out at my resource library – to get the password, fill out the form at the bottom of this post.
STEP 1. Sew pumpkin body. Cut six rectangles out of the fabric you want to use for the pumpkin body. For the medium size pumpkin, I used dark denim and orange quilting fabric and each piece is 9 x 16 inch.
Pin long edges right side together and stitch piece by piece. Stitch the first piece with the last one also right side together. Open and iron all the seams.
Now, gather one raw edge of the pumpkin piece.
TIP: How I gather is: pull thread from the bobbin and the spool (a little longer than the length of the edges you want to gather). Then zig-zag along the edge, making sure both threads are in the middle of the zig-zag. Now, gather pulling the threads. It is very important to gather as evenly as possible.
Gather until the opening is closed and hand stitch to secure.
Turn the pumpkin body right side out and repeat the gathering on the opposite raw edge. Stuff in the fiberfill while gathering and stitch the opening close.
Since you will be sewing on the stem here, the opening doesn’t have to be completely closed.
For the large size pumpkin, I used quilting fabric and old jeans. I cut 18 inch long pieces out of legs of the jeans and cut off the thicker seam. The size of the jean pieces are 16 x 18 inch and the paisley 18 x18.
The small pumpkin pieces are 6 x 14 inch.
STEP 2. Sew pumpkin stem.
Medium size pumpkin
Cut the stem pieces out of preferred fabric. Pin them right side together and stitch around except the bottom part.
Turn it right side out and and stuff in with fiberfill.
Turning the stem edge in, hand stitch the stem over the top opening.
Small size pumpkin.
Cut out the stem pieces out of preferred fabric print using the free template. Also, cut 2.25 inch wide and about 20 inch long strip out of this same fabric.
Pin one long side of the strip to the edges of one stem piece right side together. Stitch around, except the bottom edge.
Pin the other stem piece to the opposite edge of the long strip, also right side together. Stitch around and cut off fabric excess.
Turn it right side out and stitch the long corners very close to the edge. Doing so, it will give the stem defined look. Stuff in with fiberfill and hand stitch the raw edges over the top opening of the pumpkin.
Large size pumpkin.
Since this pumpkin’s top opening ended up beeing big, the stem templates were to small. I know, I could have made them bigger, but I made different stem instead.
So, I rolled up double folded piece of fleece and wrapped hemp rope around. Since the fleece fabric is stretchy, I could easily hand stitch it and nicely cover the opening.
STEP 3. Sewing pumpkin leaves is the easiest of all.
Cut out pair of rectangles out of green fabric or any fabric color you want to use for leaves. Mine are 5 x 12 inch and 3.5 x 9 inch.
Pin the pieces right side together and cut the short edges round. Stitch them together leaving small opening.
Turn the leave pieces right side out and flat out the seam using iron steam. Gather the leaf in the middle by weaving needle with thread.
Hand stitch the leaf to the pumpkin body right by the stem base.
As you see on the picture, for the small pumpkin I cut the short edges pointy and overlocked the edges. Also, sewn on two pair of leaves to the stem base instead of one.
Hope you enjoyed learning how to sew easy fabric pumpkins and are welcome to share a picture of your pumpkins on my Facebook page or Try this Pin.
