Pumpkin Jars

Hi there, it’s Nora from Just Make Stuff and I am so happy to get to share some pumpkins with you today! I love to save cleaned out jars from whatever we might finish up in our kitchen. I have decorated them with buttons, filled them flowers and used them as candle holders. This time around I made them into “carved” pumpkins.

Here are the supplies you need for this project:

Leftover jars…I used a sliced peaches jar and two spaghetti sauce jars
Three 1/3 yard pieces of orange patterned fabric
Various scraps of green fabrics and ribbons
Black felt
Small sharp scissors
Paper and pumpkin faces traced out
Tacky glue
Embroidery floss and a sewing needle

To make these pumpkin you simply trim down the fabric to fit the jar with a little overlapping fabric in the back so you can stitch it together with embroidery floss. When the orange fabric is sewed into a sleeve, slip it over the jar, choose green fabric and ribbon to tie around the top of the jar as a “stem”.

Figure out what kind of pumpkin face designs you want. You can either trace them onto paper to make yourself a template to cut felt with or simply cut right into the felt without a template. Use a very light smear of tacky glue on the back of the felt pieces and arrange the face onto the orange fabric covering the jar. That’s it!