Fabric Pumpkins Makeover

I know these fabric pumpkins are one of the oldest tricks in the book, but c'mon they are still pretty cool.  After making my twine pumpkin out a roll of toilet paper and now posting this project you're going to think I have an obsession with toilet paper.  I like to think of it as "Food Storage."  When the world is coming to an end and we are grabbing our most valuable possessions you can bet I will call out, "Honey, grab the pumpkins!"  Ok that's not the real reason I use tp but it is pretty funny if I say so myself.  Toilet paper is one of those perfect forms for pumpkins and inexpensive.  Fabric pumpkins were one of my very first craft projects as a newly wed several years ago.  Here is what they looked like then.

They aren't ugly by any means, if fact I was almost sad to do this makeover.  The original fabric pumpkins are still very festive and would probably look great in many of your homes but my style has changed over the years and they simply didn't match the rest of my holiday decor. 

Off to JoAnns I went looking for new fabrics.  Its amazing what a little fabric, hot glue, tp or paper towels, and a dowel can make.  

My inspiration actually came from this polka dot fabric I had bought back in July for a pillow.   Its graphic, orange and totally me. 

 

Then I found this houndstooth fabric.  It has been crying, "Buy Me, Buy Me!" for weeks but I didn't have  project in mind the first time I saw it.  

 

Finally with my other two fabric choices in hand I found the perfect match for my third pumpkin in this Fleur De Lis fabric.  I needed something a little darker to contrast my two lighter fabrics and I really like the idea of using Fleur De Lis for Halloween.  Don't ask me why, I just do.

Then all I had to do was paint over my dowels with acrylic paint I already had, wrap my fabric around my toilet paper and paper towel roll adding just a small amount of glue and stick in my dowels.  I didn't even glue the dowels in, it makes for easier storage and they stay on their own just fine. 

This makeover turned  my fabric pumpkins from traditional and even a little country into modern and chic and after it was completed I was glad I had.  They now sit on my kitchen table and I find myself just staring at them.  Pattern + Fabric + Toilet Paper Pumpkins =  True LOVE. 

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