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Pick Your Pumpkin – DIY String Art Pumpkins

Hey Hey! I’ve been a busy bee around here, decorating for Fall and just generally loving this season. By now you know how I feel about all things Fall 😉 LOOOOOVE. So, when some of my blog friends started chatting about doing a group Pumpkin project I was all, “ME! ME!! ME!!!”

String Art Pumpkins

I am super excited to show all of you what Pumpkin decor I came up with and show you all of the other amazing ideas my friends came up with. You can visit their blogs and see their pumpkins at the bottom of this posts. These ideas are sure to inspire you!

11 Easy, no carve Pumpkins!

I decided to make String Art Pumpkins. And honestly, I think they are SUPER ADORABLE!!

Easy String Art Pumpkins

You wanna know how you can make your own, with pretty much any image you want? Well keep reading!

It all started with these faux, easy to carve, craft pumpkins from Michael’s. They come in Orange, black and white. They also come in a few different sizes. I bought 3 of the 9″ Pumpkins, 2 black and 1 white. You know black + white is totally my jam!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Craft Pumpkins

Dressmaker Pins or smalls nails

Printed Image Template

String (embroidery thread or polyester thread)

Thimble

Scissors (or kitchen shears if that’s all you can find because your darn children lose all the scissors!)

String Art Pumpkin Tutorial 4

 

To get started you need your craft pumpkins and your printed images for guidance. I used this LEAF image and this GEOMETRIC BEAR image. Something with straight/geometric lines is best. Cut your image out and use a little piece of scotch tape to hold it in place or go ahead and stick your first pin in place to hold your image on the pumpkin. You want to place a pin in every spot where the lines of your image change direction. Just like those dot to dots you used to do in elementary. (Fun fact: my 10 year old son, Landon, LOVES huge dot to dots where the numbers go up in the thousands!)

I marked my points with a paint pen beforehand so I wouldn’t mess it up.

String Art Pumpkin TutorialString Art Pumpkin Tutorial 2 Just keep pushing those pins in. Oh! And use your thimble so your fingers don’t hurt like mine. They were so red but I couldn’t find my thimble anywhere. But I persevered for your sake 😉

Now, once all of your pins are in place the next step depends on what kind of image you are using. For the leaf, it was simple enough that I could just go ahead and tear the paper template off the pumpkin. But the bear needed to stay on since he was going to have strings going all over the place. For him I just used tweezers to remove the paper template once my strings were all finished and tied off.

Okay, so the strings. Get your thread of choice out and find a starting point. Anywhere is fine really. Tie the string onto a pin and knot it a couple of times. then start the outline of your image by going to each pin, wrapping the thread a few times, then moving to the next pin. If you are filling the inside of your image you can do the inside at the same time or start a second string when you are done with the first. Once you are finished knot the string again and trim any excess.

String Art Pumpkin Tutorial 3Voila! you’re done! Oh the shapes I could make! Wouldn’t a mouse & a little door be cute? Or how about a Spider & a Web? I just couldn’t resist a fall leaf and that adorable geometric bear!

Easy String Art PumpkinsBe sure to check out all of the other Pumpkin Decor using the SAME craft pumpkins!

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  1. Kristi says

    I’ve been wanting to try some string art for a while, but never in a million years would have thought to do it on our pumpkin! SUPER creative Leigh Anne! LOVE how they turned out!

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  4. ericasooter says

    Oh my gosh I LOVE that bear. Like absolutely love it. Like I need to come to your house and steal it. These are so amazing! I need to make string art now.. seriously.

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  8. Amy says

    These are so cool, Leigh Anne! They’re both amazing, but if I’m ever in your neck of the woods I’m totally stealing that bear! 🙂

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  15. Penny Olson says

    Really super cool idea for those of us who do not do carving any more, for what ever personal reason. Did want to offer a suggestion: use a small craft hammer to put pins/small nails in place, thus saving fingers, if not have a thimble. Can hold pin/nail with a needle nosed pliers or a comb, so don’t smash with hammer. Also, a question: could your pattern be traced on tissue paper, so removing it after a more complex pattern is complete? Also, not putting sting on all the interior lines, as I see was done at least in one place on your bear, is a useful suggestion for others, so they know in case they get frustrated with a complex pattern. Thank you very much.

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    • Penny Olson says

      Well, so I didn’t proof read very well. I meant to say about the tissue paper “so removing it after more complex pattern is complete is easier” & “not putting string” instead of sting.

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    • Leigh Anne says

      Thanks for stopping by Kristie!! I loved these little string art pumpkins so much that I made a couple more this year. Hope to see you at the party every week 🙂

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