Framed Pumpkins

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Framed pumpkins, orange, rustic, textural, inexpensive and square! Learn how to create your own using thrift store frames. These pumpkins make me smile.

I got the idea for these framed pumpkins and have been smiling since.

Almost!

Isn’t a smile wonderful?  Simply lights up the whole room and makes FUN projects.

A smile makes your tummy feel good!

Finding the supplies

I wanted to make pumpkins using an orange cable knit wool sweater.  So off the thrift shop for the perfect orange cable knit wool sweater.  Four thrift shops later…no orange cable knit wool sweater.

I stopped smiling…but only for about three minutes and another idea hit me.

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Since I couldn’t find an orange cable knit wool sweater.  I regrouped, right in the middle of the store.  First heading for socks.  No orange socks.  Sweat shirts…no orange but a fluorescent pink that seemed orangish.  No!  I wanted texture too.

Towels!

Yep!  Right there in the kitchen section, autumn colors in hand and dish towels.  Perfect!  I’m smiling again.

Now for the thrift shop part of these framed pumpkins, the frames.  I found these beauties for a total of $2.

Here are the new towels that cost $7.  And these towels came with a cute ribbon!!!!

The steps to get fat pumpkins

Supplies

Frames with cardboard backs {remove the glass}
Towels with texture in your favorite colors
Scissors
Quilt batting
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Sticks from the yard
Ribbon

Let us all take a moment and notice how rustic these thrift shop frames look after a bit of sanding.  My favorite is the one on the left!

I picked out the towel colors I wanted and matched to the frames.

Quilt batting was in my sewing stash.  I cut the batting in layers to stack high.  I wanted the “pumpkins” to be fat and pop out from the frames.

Then, I used hot glue and glued the towel directly to the backs of each frame.

Didn’t burn a finger!

See how I kept my fingers safe here at Hot Glue Gun Tips.

The finished framed pumpkins

The perfect sticks were hot glued on top and…

“framed” pumpkins!

Notice that cute ribbon got in on the act!

I’m smiling every time I walk past them. 🙂

Pumpkins don’t have to be round!

 

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