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DIY Sweater Pumpkins

August 22, 2021 /
DIY Sweater Pumpkins

This time of the year seems to “fly by”. We are still enjoying Summer yet retail stores are putting out Halloween, Thanksgiving and even Christmas items. Those 3 holidays are so close together that we find ourselves preparing for/decorating for all 3 of them. Well, I have been doing Christmas DIYs and told myself I wouldn’t bother with the other holidays. BUT I got “sucked in to” the Pinterest vortex and saw these cute little DIY sweater pumpkins. I had just had to make them. Technically it will be September soon SO, here goes. There are several different ways to make them so I admit I took “bits n pieces” of different Pinterest posts. Below is my version of making these pumpkins.

Supplies needed for the DIY Sweater Pumpkins came mainly from the Dollar Tree and the Thrift Store. See below what I purchased and how I prepared them.

Dollar Tree pumpkins
I purchased these styrofoam pumpkins at Dollar Tree. I chose different sizes and shapes.
Painted Dollar Tree pumpkins
These pumpkins are REALLY orange so I painted them white to tone them down a bit.
Thrift store sweaters
I went to my local Thrift Store and purchased some sweaters.

My Small DIY Sweater Pumpkins

I decided to use the Lt Blue sweater on a small pumpkin.
I cut the cuff off to use on another project. I then cut a portion of the sleeve big enough to cover the pumpkin.
I used a craft knife to cut out a hole in the bottom of the pumkin.
After fitting the cut sweater over the pumpkin I hot glued the ends of the sweater in to the hole cut out of the bottom.
It should look like this after all sides are glued in to the hole.
I took the piece cut out of the bottom and hot glued it to the bottom to hold in the edges of the sweater.
Then I turned over the pumpkin and pulled it tight at the top.
I tied the top with a jute cord.
Crazy as this seems I took some aluminum foil and made an oversized pumpkin stem. I like this oversized look.
DIY Sweater pumpkins
Then I covered the aluminum foil stem by hot gluing jute cord around it….wrapping it around several times to cover the silver from the foil.

My Larger DIY Sweater Pumpkins

I followed a lot of the same steps taken on the smaller pumpkin to make a larger pumpkin. However, on this one I decided to cut out the top and the bottom.
I also glued the ends of the sweater into the bottom hole.
And hot glued the cut out piece to the bottom to hold in the edges of the sweater.
I did the same steps to the top. Here I have glued the cut out piece to the top of the pumpkin.
These larger pumpkins have a stem that you can stick back in place.
I did the same thing with the stem and added aluminum foil to make an oversized stem.
DIY sweater pumpkins
This time I decided to use a polka dotted jute ribbon to wrap around the foil stem.

Another Stem Option

Here is another pumpkin that I made and I decided to use a wine cork to help me with the stem.
I put a toothpick in the cork so I could stick it in the pumpkin.
I decided to use a thicker jute rope to wrap around the cork.
DIY sweater pumpkins
Here is the final product of the wine cork stem.

In Summary

I kept going and ended up making 5 pumpkins in about 1 hour. I guess I am ready for September to roll around.

DIY sweater pumpkins

If you are “itching” to do some Fall DIY, this is a cute one to do. Good Luck!

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