Cross-Stitched & Embroidered Pumpkins

I love pumpkins. I love everything about 'em. I love carving pumpkins, drinking pumpkin spice lattes, eating pumpkin seeds, making pumpkiny desserts... And I'm sad I only get to fully enjoy all of these things a couple of months out of the year.

所以每年我都试图让我的南瓜雕刻一点特别。今年，我决定绣/交叉缝合我的南瓜。交叉缝合的人更适合日光/室内装饰，而怪异的刺绣杰克o-lantern可以点亮。让我们开始吧！

用品：

• 南瓜
• Carving tools (scooper, spoon, serrated knife, etc.)
• 纸/printer
• Small scissors/sewing pin (something small and pointy)
• Small Allen wrench/hex key
• Embroidery needle
• Embroidery thread
• 小珠宝钳子
• 棕色纱线

I found all my pumpkins at a local pumpkin patch, but you can also most likely get pumpkins from your grocery store. I knew I wanted my cross-stitched pumpkins to be on the smaller/medium side and my jack-o-lantern to be a great, big pumpkin.

至于模式，欢迎您使用我所做的蝙蝠和蜘蛛模式。但是自己也很容易。只需打开涂料中的空白网格，并使用涂料桶工具以浅色（所以您仍然可以看到黑色网格线）以您想要的任何模式。你可以做短的话语（比如“嘘！”或“eek！”）或新月形的形状或头骨。动用你的想象力！

You knew this part was coming. Cut off the top part of the pumpkin so you can clean out the insides. (Pro tip: save the pumpkin seeds to season and bake in the oven for a delicious snack!)

You'll definitely want to print out your pattern, but I do not have a printer. And I don't even have blank paper. So I used what I had and traced the pattern onto lined paper. Cut it out in an oval shape and tape it to your pumpkin. Use a small sewing pin or small sharp scissors (really anything that has a small point and is sharp) and poke through the paper and the pumpkin on each corner of each box that's colored in. Don't worry about going all the way through the pumpkin just yet -- we'll get to that in the next step. This is just so you have a template on your pumpkin.

我找到这份工作的最佳工具是我工具箱中的小星期钥匙/艾伦扳手。通过你在最后一步一直通过南瓜的小刺穿。

用绣花线拧一个大刺绣针头并在最后系一圈。使用六角钥匙/艾伦扳手作为指导，将针从内部戳到外面。你所做的结应该确保线程保持。然后通过对角线戳针，按照图案。重复这些步骤，直到完成模式。

几次，我需要用我的小珠宝钳子从里面拉动针。

As you can tell, I made a little oopsie and poked two additional unnecessary holes towards the top of the bat. But it doesn't really matter -- you can't tell from a distance.

我用了我制作的小蜘蛛图案的相同交叉针脚技术。当我完成蜘蛛时，我决定让它看起来像是从一个网络字符串挂起。所以我刚戳了南瓜顶部附近的洞，并使用了一条长长的刺绣螺纹。

现在为幽灵般的一个。

Start with the same steps: cut off the top and clean out the pumpkin.

Then you're going to want to draw on a simple jack-o-lantern face -- triangular eyes and a simple mouth. Then you just carve it out with a small, serrated knife.

Using the same Allen wrench/hex key, poke some holes around the outside of the eyes and the mouth. You'll want there to be an equal number of holes on the top and the bottom of each eye, as well as an even number of holes on top of the mouth and beneath it. For example, I had five holes above each eye, five below each eye, and two on the "sides" of each eye. But ultimately, you might make too many holes and that's okay. It doesn't really matter.

So I tricked you. This jack-o-lantern onlylookslike it's been embroidered. It's not!

抓住长长的棕色纱线（如30英寸左右），将其拧在刺绣针上，并在一端绑一条结。并从左眼开始，从南瓜的内部缝制它。

Then take the needle off the yarn because, as I said, this isn't actually embroidery.

Hold the yarn over a hole and push it through with the Allen wrench/hex key.

由于它是一个锯旋模式，即将每次跳过孔。想一想，就像一双鞋子一样。

当你到达结束the eye, traverse back in the holes you skipped. (As you can tell, I made too many holes, but that's okay.)

Once you get back to where you started, cut the yarn and stuff the end into the beginning hole. Do the same for the other eye.

使用相同的精确技术进行嘴巴。从一端开始，转到另一边，然后遍历并最终开始在哪里开始。

If you're interested in preserving the pumpkin, you have a couple of options.

您可以用每夸脱水溶液填充喷雾瓶。喷涂内部和剪切表面，使其渗透和干燥。据说该公式杀死表面细菌和模具，可以导致腐烂。

Alternatively, you can coat the inside and the cut surfaces with a layer of petroleum jelly or olive oil to prevent dehydration over time.

将光源（我更喜欢假蜡烛或LED童话/弦灯）在千斤顶灯笼内，并将顶部放在上面。现在站起来欣赏你的辛勤工作！