Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:26 am
#13135
hi everyone,
I have been carving for years and with trial and error over the years i finally came up with what works best for me. we usually do a large display which means doing 15-20 pumpkins, needless to say you cannot do live ones to far ahead as they start to go bad, I always hated poking the patterns on, very time consuming, hands start cramping after a while, and with more intricate patterns it is hard to follow anyways.
So I staple my pattern onto a piece of carbon paper, tape it to my kin, and go over it with a ballpoint pen, works great! and you can see your pattern perfectly, and can also put your patterns on well in advance, i get my pumpkins early Oct and put a few patterns on each night while watching TV or whatever, then 2 days b4 Halloween scoop em' n' carve em', and you can do several patterns with 1 sheet of carbon paper.
I have been carving for years and with trial and error over the years i finally came up with what works best for me. we usually do a large display which means doing 15-20 pumpkins, needless to say you cannot do live ones to far ahead as they start to go bad, I always hated poking the patterns on, very time consuming, hands start cramping after a while, and with more intricate patterns it is hard to follow anyways.
So I staple my pattern onto a piece of carbon paper, tape it to my kin, and go over it with a ballpoint pen, works great! and you can see your pattern perfectly, and can also put your patterns on well in advance, i get my pumpkins early Oct and put a few patterns on each night while watching TV or whatever, then 2 days b4 Halloween scoop em' n' carve em', and you can do several patterns with 1 sheet of carbon paper.