Pumpkin

Well I thought I'd give the Pumpkin pattern from Knitty a go but it didn't turn out very well. My first mistake was that I didn't felt it enough. I was worried that if I left it in the machine too long it would shrink to a tiny size but the size stayed more or less the same. I should have put it back in the washing machine to try to felt it further but I was too eager to see how it would turn out. I followed the pattern and stuffed my pumpkin with carrier bags and tied the yarn around the seam lines and let it dry. The shape looked quite good at this point although it took forever to dry! Anyway, yesterday I cut off the yarn around the seams and stuffed it with filler and sewed the little stalk bit on. Eek... The shape's not so good now and I wish I'd felted it a lot more! Oh well, I've got enough yarn left to try another one sometime in the future.