How to Make a Needle Felted Pumpkin

You will also need wool in batts or in roving form. You can buy white wool and dye it yourself, or buy an assortment of colors. For the pumpkin, you will need an orange and green. It's handy to have some black and white and related colors as well.

If you haven't done needle felting before, I suggest you take a bit of your wool, and roll it in your hands to form a loose ball. Practice making a ball, or any shape, really, with the needle being sure to go in and out in a straight line. The needles are easy to snap. You don't need a lot of pressure. The more you jab the wool with the needle, the tighter it will get. Watch out for your fingers.

I actually use some fiber fill for the core of most of my needle felted pieces. What goes on the inside won't be seen so why waste wool?  You can use wool, of course. What ever you use, roll it in your hands to make a loose ball the size you want your pumpkin to be. Start wrapping strips of orange wool around the ball and poke it with the needle until it starts to hold together.

 Keep adding strips of fiber until it starts to take shape. You can also squish it with your hands to make it roughly the shape you want.

Once it is the shape you want, you can build up layers from top to bottom in ridges. Poke the edges more than the middle of each strip to make it bubble a little in the middle.

Now you're ready to add the stem with some green wool. I wrap the green around a smooth stick or skewer, slide it off, and poke it until it becomes stiff. You will have to keep turning it over since it has a tendency to stick to the foam. Don't jab too hard. Leave a bit of a fluffy tail that you can use to attach to the center top of the pumpkin.

You can leave it the way it is as a cute little pumpkin, or you can add a face. The eyes are simply little balls of white and dark felted flat.