Sunday, October 23, 2005

Pumpkin Carving


We had our annual pumpkin carving party last night. Come on over to see all the pumpkins and the winner of the contest!

8 comments:

bigsip said...

DANG, Brew! You got skills, man. Treebeard was AWESOME!

JS said...

wow... looks like a really fun time! and some killer carvings!

mullinz8 said...

Yeah, Brew you’ve got some mad skills with a carving knife. Everyone got along at the party I guess? Who is who in the photo?

JS said...

were some of these carvings made with those little "carving kits"? Or are those genuinly designed and carved with just hand and knife...

im impressed either way since carving is a skill, but more so impressed if they were thought up and drawn by the carver...

Mat Brewster said...

Thanks guys. Everyone did get along fine. None of the ones I thought might not get along showed up.

To throw everyone else in the loop, I had invited the preachers daughter and husband, a couple of lesbians from work and wine drinking frenchies. I was a little concerned about putting these folks together and giving them knives.

Lesbians and churchies couldn't come. Turns out, because of the apt arrangement, everyone kind of stayed in their own groups anyways.

One or two of them were done freehand, but most were done via a pattern.

Amy and I have tons of old pattern books and carving tools from the kits. We save them each year so we're kind of stocked up.

You tape a pattern to the side of the pumpkin and either trace to the pumpkin with a marker, or take a little ice pick and trace the pattern with little holes.

It still takes a bit of skill especially all the little details. Being able to excise the slivers of pumpkin you want out, while keeping the tiny bits you want in is difficult.

JS said...

yes, i have no doubt they take skill, but tell me which ones were done free hand?

oh, and who won?

bigsip said...

I thought Treebeard won.

Good job, anyway, Brew!

Mat Brewster said...

Mine did win. Freehanded ones are the owl looking thing in the first pic and a super large smiley face which is not pictured.