Step-by-step: Elegant pumpkins

Use our easy instructions to design a grown-up pumpkin

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Glowing vines
Thomas J. Story

Glowing vines

Meandering patterns add a whimsical storybook appeal to your arrangement.

1. Cut out top of pumpkin and scrape the interior clean (see instructions).

2. Using a real vine or a vine pattern, transfer design onto pumpkin. (To create your own pattern, use varying sizes of your favorite leaf shape, then draw a vine between the leaves.)

3. Carve leaf shapes by cutting completely through the pumpkin or by scraping a shallow relief. You can combine the two methods, as shown here on the smallest pumpkin.

4. With a scraping tool, carve vine stem about ¼ inch deep, being careful not to break all the way through the pumpkin flesh.

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