Recycled Blue Jean Denim Pumpkins

Aren't these recycled denim pumpkins adorable?! And they are not hard to make! No sewing involved which is the best part! I took a little bit of several different stuffed pumpkin ideas and made these my own. The best part is that these recycled denim pumpkins were almost FREE!

First I started with the leg of a pair of recycled denim jeans. 

These jeans had a little bit of stretch in them, I'm not sure if that makes any difference but these did. 

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I cut opened the leg of the pants and straightened out the shape so it was a long rectangle. 

I gathered the end of the fabric by just folding it back and forth. 

I secured the gather with a 6" zip tie. 

I did the same with the other end of the fabric. 

Next, I tucked the gathered ends into the middle of the fabric. 

Keeping with my free and recycled theme today, I cut open an old pillow to use the stuffing for my pumpkin. 

If you don't have an old pillow you can use Poly-fil. 

I filled the pumpkin with the pillow stuffing making sure to tuck it into all the folds. 

I made sure my pumpkin was plump and round.

Next, I closed the seam with hot glue. 

Adding the hot glue about an inch at a time, I closed the seam being careful not to burn my fingers. 

You could also use a low temperature glue gun or one that does both, which helps. 

Once my pumpkin was closed I grabbed about a 5' length of thin, strong twine and folded it in half to find the center. 

I wrapped the twine around my pumpkin pulling it tight enough to create pumpkin ribs. 

As I wrapped the twine I criss crossed it on the top then back to the bottom. 

I wrapped the twine until I had 8 sections on my pumpkin then tied it off on the bottom. 

Now it was time to decorate the top of my denim pumpkin. 

I used a circle of hot glue to attach a little bit of Spanish moss then more hot glue to attach a stick from my yard that I cut to size. 

My backyard stick stem is cut to about 1.5"-2" long. 

I added a little wired pip berry wire as a tendril on the top of my pumpkin. 

Now to add a different spin on my pumpkins, and you can certainly leave off this part, I added hot glue to 2 wood slices and attached my pumpkins. 

The wood slices gave my pumpkins a solid base. 

I think they are adorable and the best part is that they didn't cost a cent because the decorations on top of the pumpkin were leftover from previous dollar store pumpkin projects. 

You could do similar using recycled drop cloth fabric as well! 

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