Last Saturday I attended a craft class at The Store@Mendota. It was a pumpkinpalooza of sorts! There were five of us, and we each paid $25 which included everything for two pumpkins. It also included refreshments. Here’s what we were making.

We could either bring our own fabric or pick a fall fabric that was on hand. I brought my own fabric and made two white pumpkins. Everyone else used fabric that was provided by The Store. Here are some pictures…the one below is a sweater pumpkin!

And more…

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And it’s just so fun!

My pumpkins where out of a white cordouroy that I brought with me to the class. I wish I’d used the fabric that was provided as mine was a little harder to work with and I think the others are a little prettier than mine. Also, who in the world wears sunglasses to a 6 pm craft class? What was I thinking?

I am loving these pumpkins. Here’s a few I have in a bowl at the house. One is white sweater pumpkin. It’s 95 degrees. Why is my pumpkin wearing a sweater? Because she looks good in it.

Finally, here’s a few on top of my hutch in the dining room. Some of these are old pumpkins that I made a different way a few years back. Here is the post on that. They’ve held up well except for the one that Tippy Jo (my rescue dog) destroyed last week. It’s gone — went to pumpkin Heaven.

So that is what we were doing in Mendota last week. This week, we had the Hawk Festival and sadly, I did not go. I am still catching up from the summer and I had an agenda for today that didn’t allow much fun in it. Bad me!!

If you are interested in taking a pumpkin making class at The Store, please call 276.669.2401 and ask for Katie or Dottie. If you wish to buy one of the sweet little pumpkins already made, please give them a call. They’ll fix you up.