Easy Fabric Pumpkins (+ Video)

These darling fabric pumpkins are easy to make and are perfect for fall. Make them in any size you’d like with our easy-to-follow tutorial.

You might also like our 10-minute sock pumpkins, our felt Halloween candy pouches or our Target dollar spot pumpkin wreath tutorial!

Watch our step by step video!

Make your own little pumpkin patch this fall with this easy tutorial. A great way to use up scrap fabric. These fabric pumpkins are easy to make! I made a basket of pumpkins to give to the ladies at my church for a training meeting that I am doing. If you’re interested in the pumpkin spiritual thought that I shared you can scroll down to the very bottom of the post!

Fabric Pumpkins Are Easy To Make

If you made our sock pumpkins last year you’ll love this tutorial! Instead of socks, we’re using cotton fabric. Fabric pumpkins require a few seams of sewing, but they are simple stitches that can be done by hand or by using a sewing machine (or a combination of both which is my preferred method).

Add a few pumpkins to a basket, stack a few and place them on a bookcase, set on a windowsill or use as placeholders on Thanksgiving! These would make great teacher gifts too with one of my printable gift tags! I love these ones with an Anne of Green Gables quote. The darling tag says, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

Fabric Pumpkin Supplies

• Fabric (Halloween Prints) (Plaid Prints)
• Felt Scraps
• Scissors
• Embroidery Thread
• Stuffing
• Sewing Machine/Thread
• Measuring Tape
• Small Pliers (optional)
• Hot Glue/Glue

Fabric Choices for Fabric Pumpkins

My favorite fabrics to use are lightweight cotton prints such as calico or quilter’s cotton. They come in so many fun prints and are easy to stitch through. I used a combination of plaid prints and cotton prints for these pumpkins. Flannel or muslin would be a great choice, too.

You can also upcycle fabric from sweaters to make adorable pumpkins. Because sweater fabric already has holes in it, it’s easy to pull a needle and thread through the center of the pumpkin.

Fabric Pumpkin Variations

Here are a few ways to add variety and your own style to these pumpkins!

1. Use a small piece of wood or a cinnamon stick for a stem.
2. Add a felt leaf as a decoration with the stem.
3. Add buttons or other trim for texture and color.
4. Tie a ribbon around the stem.
5. Add a few drops of essential oil to the stuffing before closing up the pumpkin.

How To Make Fabric Pumpkins In a Variety of Sizes

It’s easy to make small, medium, and large pumpkins with this tutorial. Take the width measurement and double it for the length measurement. Here are some example measurements below. The pumpkins shown in the photos are made with an 8″ x 16″ rectangle of fabric (medium-sized pumpkins).

Fabric Cutting Guide

Small (5″ x 10″ rectangle of fabric)

Medium (8″ x 16″ rectangle of fabric)

Large (10″ x 20″ rectangle of fabric)

If making a larger or smaller pumpkin, adjust the stem size by adding a bit to the width and length.

Easy Fabric Pumpkins Tutorial

Pumpkin Spiritual Thought

I mentioned above that I am giving these pumpkins as gifts to the ladies in my church. I found a talk called, “What a Single Pumpkin Seed Taught Me about God’s Love” by Larry  Laycock.

Here are some of my favorite parts:

“My boyhood home was surrounded by alfalfa fields. When I was nine years old, I cleared a small plot on the edge of the fields to plant a garden. In early spring, I planted a single pumpkin seed and cared for it each day, eager for it to sprout. Within days, to my delight, small green leaves pushed through the soil. Over the days and weeks that followed, I marveled at the rapid rate of growth of my small, single pumpkin seed. With divine components of seed, soil, sunlight, and water, my small seed miraculously transformed into multiple vines stretching out in all directions.

A short time later, green bulbs appeared where orange and yellow flowers had just bloomed. And over the course of the summer, the bulbs transformed into large, orange pumpkins. When the harvest arrived, I cut open my pumpkins. I was astonished! Each pumpkin had produced hundreds and hundreds of seeds.

You might be thinking to yourself, “That’s great, but what does this pumpkin seed have to do with me as a young adult?” Well, in observing the seemingly endless supply of seeds from my harvest, I suddenly understood how, with God’s help, the finite (one seed) could be transformed into the infinite and eternal. I saw that “with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37). I experienced the truth of the scriptural words “by small and simple things are great things brought to pass” (Alma 37:6).

God created my small pumpkin seed to produce limitless, even infinite, generations of seeds in a never-ending cycle of growth and development. And the same is true for many other things in our lives, including the ability to feel and share His divine love.

Over time, I have come to understand that our loving Heavenly Father has planted within each of us the seed of His eternal love. God loves us enough to plant His love in our souls with the intention that we cultivate and grow it through service, faith, repentance, and covenant keeping.

…If we cultivate God’s love through kindness, courtesy, compassion, and inclusion, it will grow exponentially. Our capacity to love and serve others will become infinite, eternal, and more beautiful than we ever dreamed possible.

As we cultivate the seed of God’s love within us, we can reap the pure love of Christ—charity (see Moroni 7:47). Those who cultivate the seed of God’s love also reap a bounteous crop of friends, fellowship, and increased faith…

As we carefully cultivate the seed of God’s love, we can experience a limitless harvest of eternal love in our family relationships, our Church service, and our personal lives.”

Click here for the full talk.