Crocheted pumpkins last longer.
Fall decorating would not be complete without the pumpkin. Display beautiful arrangements with pumpkins throughout the entire fall season, including Halloween and Thanksgiving. Crocheted pumpkins add more versatility to your holiday d cor and do not spoil. Display pumpkins alone or in groups of varying sizes, with leaves, nuts, Indian corn and gourds. String small pumpkins together and hang them as a garland. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Pumpkin Body
1. Chain two, then do six single crochets in the second chain from the hook, working in continuous rounds, using orange yarn. Place a stitch marker or small piece of green yarn in the last stitch to mark the end of each round. Move the marker up to the last stitch at completion of each round.
2. Make two single crochets in each stitch around. This completes round two.
3. Make two single crochets in the first stitch then one single crochet in the next stitch. Continue around to the end. This completes round three.
4. Make a single crochet in each stitch around. This completes round four.
5. Repeat rounds three and four. This completes rounds five and six. You will have 27 stitches.
6. Make a single crochet in each stitch around. Continue until four rounds are completed. This will complete rounds seven through ten.
7. Decrease the size of the rounds by drawing up a loop in the first single crochet and drawing up a loop in the second single crochet; then yarn over the hook and draw the yarn through all three loops. Then single crochet in the next stitch. Continue around to complete round eleven. You will have 18 stitches.
8. Make a single crochet in each stitch around. This completes round twelve.
9. Repeat rounds eleven and twelve. This completes rounds thirteen and fourteen. You will have 12 stitches. Stuff the pumpkin with fiberfill.
10. Decrease in each stitch across. You will have six stitches. Finish off by cutting the yarn and weaving it into the inside of the pumpkin.
Stem and Vine
11. Chain 21, turn and make a single crochet in the second chain from the hook and in each chain after, using green yarn. You will have 20 stitches.
12. Connect the vine to the pumpkin. Loop through the side of the last stitch and then single crochet into the first stitch of the pumpkin body. Pull the yarn through all three loops. Then single crochet in the next five stitches.
13. Single crochet in the next stitch, and decrease in the next two times, in one continuous round. Single crochet in the next four stitches. Single crochet in the next stitch, decrease in the next, single crochet in the next. Draw the yarn through each of the next three stitches, then loop through all loops. Finish off by cutting the yarn and weaving it into the stem. Twist the vine into a curlicue.
