A couple of weeks ago, it was time to visit the Glass Pumpkin Patch at the Morton Arboretum again.
This has become one of my favorite fall things to do. The weather wasn’t great, but at least on the day I went it wasn’t raining. I also had the chance to make my own glass pumpkin paperweight in a class earlier in the week. I’ll describe that super fun experience in the next post. But as a teaser, here’s the pumpkins my friend and I made, along with everyone’s in the class. Mine is the green one, hers is the orange.
So many different pumpkins! We each got to pick our own colors, and each turned out beautiful and unique.
As always, there are so many to choose from in the patch. Each artist has their own style and unique methods of making the pumpkins their own. After taking the class and learning some basic techniques, it was fun to talk to the artists about how they make theirs. Some of the artists are local, but many travel from the Girl Glass Studios run by Shannon Jane Morgan in Sacramento. They travel from California with their pumpkins, and a furnace, kiln and all their equipment to run classes and glass blowing demonstrations.
There was even a “vegetable garden” this year.
Of course, I added to my collection. This year I chose a pumpkin by Matthew Urban of Furnace Urbini that can be lit up and glows a beautiful golden bronze. I love the twisting of the spines and spiderweb appearance of this pumpkin.
Here’s my collection…
These are fabulous. So you blew the glass yourself? Very cool. Can’t wait to read more about this.
We made paperweight pumpkins. Solid, no glass blowing this time. Still plenty complicated and fun.