Its All Saints Eve.

I've got a big bowl of choccies, and another big bowl of sweeties.
No trick-or-treaters yet (more treats for me!).
I've made (and eaten) my pumpkin soup.

And carved a pumpkin:

Start with a plain 'ol pumpkin. Cut off the top, and scoop out the insides first. The more flesh you can get out, the easier the carving bit is.


Attach picture of your choice

(please note that the picture can't be too detailed, or require "negative space" to be filled.

Use a pin to prick through the image onto the pumpkin. The more pricks, the easier it is to see once you take the pic away.

Join up the dots with a sharp knife first, just scoring the surface.

Pricked/scored image on pumpkin:

Cut all the way through. Be careful not to cut anything that might be "holding up the image". I used a very thin filleting knife for more control/detail.

Push out the shape from the inside

Finished carving

Pumpkin pole dancer.

2.5 hours - but that includes: de-seeding pumpkin, scooping out pumpkin, simmering pumpkin flesh for 1/2 hour, blending pumpkin, making soup from blended pumpkin, eating pumpkin soup, preparing sweets for trick-or-treaters, carving the pumpkin, carving the OTHER SIDE of the pumpkin, Neil getting all David Bailey and taking arty pictures of pumpkin, and putting pumpkin outside front door!

Here's the other side:

 Article kindly supplied by Body and Pole Forum. 

 Pumpkin thread credit Bubble / Robyn