I started carving on this pumpkin patch back in October after I completed the third of my scarecrow figures. Then I got bogged down with other things, or perhaps I was afraid to put this thing together. If I didn’t try, then I couldn’t screw it up. I did make some mistakes, but nothing fatal.

This is what I call a scrap pile project. The pumpkins are carved from small bits of basswood that were left over from cutting out blanks for other projects. The hay bales are cut from a piece of 1″ x 1″ maple that I found in the scrap box. The scarecrow post is a piece of black walnut left over from the little whale I carved over a year ago. The fence is oak from the whiskey barrels. And the scarecrow and the base are from a chunk of scrap lumber I took off a pallet last year. Amazing what a little sandpaper and paint can do, huh?