Sweet And Chic Embellished Sweater Pumpkins

 Vintage Victorian Inspired Embellished Sweater Pumpkin

Don't you just love to recycle things?  I do too! With ideas

of my own or being inspired by other things people do. I

have pumpkins on the brain and I decided this is the time

to finally get done what I have been meaning to do in

forever. I made a bunch of them out of several different

type of materials and fabrics, but I wanted to take it up

a notch and make some dainty special ones. And, I knew

just the stuff to make them with.

I have a box of sweaters I had been saving that, let's

just say had shrunk in size on me hoping that one day

they might shrink up to the size I'm wearing now! Well,

that hasn't happened in two years so, I decided they

would make pretty pumpkins. I finally got inspired

to create with them, although it killed me to cut them

up. They were all in really good shape so what am

I thinking!

This WAS a beautiful cashmere sweater in a taupe

color...a good fall color and so soft, so this was my

first pick to work with.

My hubby starting choking when he saw me taking

the scissors to this one asking "what the heck are

you doing!?" I said, "Making a sweater pumpkin!"

LoL! Then I got that look...you know the one that

if there were words printed on his face would say,

"have you lost your ever loving mind again woman!"

He seems to say that quite often to me lately.

Then he left the room saying, "I can't watch this

slaughter!"

I have to admit, I had to turn my head while I put

the first cut into it cringing at the same time! Gosh

that was hard to do! Oh well can't turn back now!

I had some sweet vintage crocheted lace, a bit stained

up but I liked it just the way it was, and knew I wanted

to use it along with something sparkley. I had victorian

on my mind but that was about it on where it was going

to go from there.

I got the pumpkin made and added the lace. I decided

I wanted to cover the twine that was wrapped around

the top of the sweater to create the stem, so I cut a piece

of the cuff off the sweater sleeve and wrapped it around

the stem, and rolled over the top of it just a little bit. I

wanted to cover the top of the stem so I took a strand

of rhinestones and did a wrap around and ended by

putting a larger square rhinestone right in the middle.

It doesn't show up well in the pictures. Then I wrapped

some more of the rhinestone strand just under where

I rolled the sweater down to on the top of the stem.

Next I clipped four little rhinestones off the chain

of a necklace I had used when making my

"Pink Parfait Chenille Pumpkins"and set them each

in the centers of the flowers in the crocheted lace. It

still needed something. On that same necklace there

was a silver teardrop that I loved that was next to the

clasp, so I took the rest of the silver chain I had left over

from that necklace and redid it to create the little necklace

here on this pumpkin. That was just what it needed! Now

I was satisfied. My four-o-clock in the morning creation.

I get those alot. Might be why I drag all day!

Her name is "Victoria" of course!

I really loved her when she was all done and even

my hubby was amazed how sweet it turn out too!

See I'm not out of my mind yet! Next up.....my

Dainty Creamy White Pearly Feathered and

Vintage Lace Sweater Pumpkin

  

Now I'm really getting inspired! Next I take another

sweater that I loved in a creamy off white. Again I

wanted to use another lace doilie I had that was a bit

whiter than the sweater. I love different shades of white

together. I wanted to do something with pearls on this

one. I had this idea and set out to do it, but it came out

far different from what I had planned! I had planned

on sewing little pearls throughout the entire pumpkin,

but once I got the pumpkin itself made, I was trying to

figure out how I wanted the stem on this one. Just

fiddleing around, I wrapped the pearls around the stem

and that was it! I finished the top off that way too with

one single pearl set on top of the wrap in the middle. I

added my lace....put some single pearls in places around

the lace and then decided to add some feathers. I loved

it but it needed something for sparkle. I just can't get

away from sparkle! In my stash I found this oval

rhinestone that already had some feathers of another

kind glued to it from when I made lace crowns last

year. I set it on the pumpkin and that was it! Now I

was happy with her. When looking at the finished

pumpkin I envisioned wedding...so her name became

"Purity"....well we are supposed to be pure at that time.

I have lots more left of this sweater and the taupe one to

create more pumpkins another day. The inspiration to them

will come when another vision gets in my head. Could be

soon or next year. I got some ideas swimming around in

my brain for the white sweater with Christmas in mind.

We'll see if those pan out!

Next is my......

Creamy Sweet & Chic Sweater Pumpkins With Bling

The last sweater I wanted to use was more of a bulky

type knit sweater in a soft cream color. Cream is a great

fall color too, don't you think?

I got six pumpkins out of one sweater with no

sewing involved. The largest is from the lower

body of the sweater, all the small ones are from

the sleeves of the sweater. I still have the chest part

of the sweater left to make one more if I sew the

sides together to create a tube, or use the front and

back separately by cutting large circles and laying

some pillow stuffing in the middle. Then gather up

the edges to tie off with a rubber band or tie it off

with twine, and continue wrapping the gathered

edges with the twine to create the stem. To get the

sculptured look I can take six strands of the twine

and starting at the bottom underneath the pumpkin,

lay them out evenly spaced with the center of each

strand centered under the pumpkin, take a hold of

both ends, pull it up the sides tightly, then wrap

the ends of the twine around the stem. Once done

with all the strands you get the sculptured look.

Glue the ends in place and trim off the sweater

edges to get the flat look at the top. Then I would

have eight pumpkins...I'll do that later, I'm finally

getting pumpkined out!

I have a pack of pumpkins coming on my next post

made of chenilles, drop cloth, gingham, and checks

to share. I have been on pumpkin overload this year!

It's all the pumpkins I had planned on making for the

last couple years and never got around to it. Nothing

like doing them all in three weeks, but I'm finally getting

them done and out of my system....maybe lol.

I got a pretty good amount of  pumpkins out of one

sweater though....now what to do with all these pumpkins!

I cut leaf shapes out of painters drop cloth for the leaves.

I creased them down the middle, pinched the bottoms

together and then just stuck them under the twine strip

that creates the sculptured look around the sides.

The largest of the pumpkins is made from the bottom

half of the body of the sweater. Below all the little

pumpkins made with the sleeves of the sweater and

each are embellished with different rhinestone jewels.

My two favorites.....The little bitty....this was wrapped

in yarn then I decided to go with twine on the rest. I

think I liked the twine best. It looks rustic but dainty.

Maybe I'll redo her so she doesn't look like the odd man out.

And the.....itty bitty!

and lastly the chenille princess pumpkins my

granddaughter and I did posted here. These aren't

made from sweaters, but they are part of the "Up A

Notch" pumpkins with being dazzled and jeweled

and just sweeter as far as pumpkins go!

The Pink Princess Parfait Collection

Well that's it on my fancy smacy embellished pumpkin

kick. Not sure that I am done, but for now yes. I think

that's enough for one day!

Thank you for sharing your time here today!

TaTa For Now!

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