Learning to carve pumpkins that don’t suck

punkin3.14 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:16:10 +0000

As you all should be aware, KwartzLab (in kind co-operation with THEMUSEUM, and the generous sponsorship of the KWAwesome Fund) is hosting Hacky Hallowe’en, a carving-soldering-hacking skills workshop, on Saturday October 29. As part of this workshop, we’ll be teaching you (yes, YOU!) how to safely carve intricate designs into a pumpkin. Of course, in order to pass this wisdom down, some of us ‘Labbers first needed to learn the skill ourselves.

KwartzLab friend and pumpkin carving guru, Jeff-o, held such a workshop for us on Wednesday evening. And as a graduate of the kitchen knife & stitches school of pumpkin carving, I was first in line! I’ll share some of the tips we learned after Hacky Hallowe’en. In the meantime, however, you can take a peek at our technique!

Andrew opts for a "fancy" lid.

Pumpkins are tasty.

Taping the pattern to the pumpkin.

Transfering the pattern to the pumpkin.

Doug shows off the KWAwesome pumpkin

Awesome-looking pumpkins, that don't require blood sacrifice.

More pics over here.

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Learning to carve pumpkins that don’t suck