We have just the project for you thanks to our talented Designer Audrey Pettit!
Grab some fall fabrics and muslin our Epiphany Crafts Button Tools and look at these fun bowl fillers you can create!
Pumpkin Bowl Fillers by Audrey Pettit
Epiphany Crafts Supplies:
Epiphany Crafts Round 14 Button Studio Tool and Round 14 Clear Button Caps
Epiphany Crafts Round 20 Button Studio Tool and Round 20 Clear Button Caps
Patterned Paper: We R Memory Keepers
Muslin fabric, Polyfill Stuffing, and String: Craft Supply
Spray Mist: Clearsnap and Tattered Angels
Floss: DMC
Sticks
I love, love to make home decor projects for Halloween, and I’m always looking for something quick and easy that I can make for myself, and possibly a few extra for little gifts, too. Where I live in the South, we call these types of things ‘bowl fillers’ because they are small enough to pile together into one big bowl. Love how they look all jumbled up together!
1. Cut a piece of muslin fabric. Gather an old plastic bowl and fill the bottom inch of so full of water. Add dye to the water and soak your fabric in the bowl for a minute or two. There are many supplies that will work well for the fabric dye. I used spray mist ink, but you could also use fabric dye, re-inkers, food coloring, or even Kool-Aid powder.
2. Remove fabric from the dye solution and allow to dry completely.
Tip: if your fabric is too dark, immediately rinse it under tap water to remove some of the dye before it dries. If it’s too light, plop it back into the bath for a few more minutes. Remember that your fabric will lighten a bit naturally as it dries.
3. Create pumpkin patterns from scratch paper. Fold muslin pieces in half and pin patterns to the fabric. Cut out.
4. Stitch faces onto the pumpkins. I used excess fabric cut into rough triangles for the noses. The mouths are a piece of hemp string stitched on with black embroidery floss. Create eyes using the Epiphany Crafts Round 14 and Round 20 Button Studio Tools and black patterned paper. Stitch eyes to pumpkins.
5. Pin right sides of fabric pumpkins together, and machine stitch around edge, leaving approximately a 1/4″ seam allowance. Start your stitching from one side, stitching all the way around until you reach the top. Leave the top open. Flip your fabric right side out. Stuff with polyfill batting, add a piece of stick for a stem, and whip stitch top opening closed. Tie fabric and twine around the stem.
We’d like to help give YOU the tools to make these adorable bowl fillers! Simply post a comment today and let us know what you love most about Halloween or this time of the year. We’ll enter you to win our Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Button 14 Round Tool and a matching pack of our Buttons!
Last week’s winner of our Round 25 Tool is…
What fun this card is with the textures colors and I love the printables that can be used with the Square 25. Thanks for the fun.
Congrats to you Joyce! Please email me at JSandvoss@epiphanycrafts.com
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So cute–I like the primitive look. I don’t celebrate Halloween but Fall is my favorite time of year–I like the changing of the leaves and all the fall harvest items.
I live in Michigan so, I love the fall colors of the leaves, cider mills, cool air and Halloween.
These are so cute! What a fun project, love their little faces!
love these!!!
This is my favorite time of year….the cooler temps, the beautiful colors of fall, the cozy-ness of the seasonand of course the pumpkins!
These little fellas couldn’t be any more darling! I love how my sweet, crafty friend, Audrey created these as bowl fillers to decorate her home this fall season! I ‘know’ that Audrey loves this time of the year, so I am sure she had a ton of fun creating these sweet prim jacks .. great job, sweetie! Love them to pieces!!!
These are really cute….I love the fall colors this time of year. And the best part about Halloween is taking the kids trick or treating….Dressing them up and just watching them have fun is worth it all.
What a cute idea for Halloween. It’s nice that you don’t really need to be an artist because “primitive” is whatever you’d like it to be. thanks for another nice idea.
Love fall and Halloween. A holiday with candy and costumes – what can be better than that??
great primitive/folk art look. thanks for sharing, and gratz! to the winner.
These pumpkins are so cute, the primitive style is one of my faves
The best thing about Halloween is picking out costumes, making the front porch spooky and delighting the little ones that come for treats!
They are so cool and i would have them sitting in my house all year round! Love those crazy pumpkin heads especially the eyes… EC buttons do it again!