Learn how to make a sweet pumpkin garland with twine. The natural texture of jute or twine gives this easy craft a rustic warm and cozy feel that's perfect for your fall decor.

This year's fall mantel is decorated with muted fall colors with natural elements. However, I really wanted to add in a little color, so I decided to create a pumpkin garland using natural twine.
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How to Make a Twine Pumpkin Garland
Here's a short video to help you see how easy the pumpkins can be put together.
Supplies
- Twine - Thin twine for pumpkins and a thicker twine for the garland
- Cardboard Tube
- Tree Branch for pumpkin stems
- Scissors
- Hot Glue

Dying Twine
I always have natural twine in the house but I also picked up some orange twine. However, natural and orange pumpkins seemed a little boring so I wondered if I could dye some of the natural twine to add in a bit of extra color.
I used food coloring with boiling water and vinegar just like dying eggs at Easter. Using different combinations of red and yellow dye and some blue gave me a few different colored twine for the pumpkins.

Making the Twine Pumpkins
Start with a wrapping paper tube. For these pumpkins, I used one that was about 1.25 inches in diameter. This created pumpkins about 3 inches wide.
Cut the tube to 7 inches in length.

Next cut through the tube lengthwise.

Begin wrapping the twine around the tube from one end to the other. At one point I started taping the ends to help keep the tube shape while wrapping. You can see this in the video below.

When you take off the twine you will get a nice coil that creates a round shape when you tie the ends together

Once you've created the pumpkins, hot glue a small bit of a tree branch to the top for the pumpkin stem.

Tie the pumpkins along a thicker piece of twine and hang your pretty pumpkin garland from the mantel or anywhere you want a little fall whimsy.

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Carole West
These are so cute - I'm making me this garland for fall. Thanks for the tutorial easy enough I can make this happen. LOVE
Patti Estep
Thanks Carole. They were so fun to make.
Karen Reeves
These are so cute & make such a cute garland.
Patti Estep
Thanks Karen. Glad to hear that you like it.
Laurie @ Vinyet Etc
SO cute! I love that you dyed them, so clever!
Patti Estep
Thanks Laurie. The dye really helped the garland look more festive.