pineapple turkey centerpiece

Name: Pineapple Turkey Centerpiece
Prep time: 45 min
Ingredients: 2 - 8-1/2 x 11 pieces of felt, red, brown, rust or orange color; 1 - full pineapple, with nice, un-bruised leaves. the leaves will be the tail feathers.; 4 small chenille balls - or, use two sm. chenille balls, and two small googly eyes; 1 - 6" piece of red, brown or black yarn - for turkey's wattle; 1 small wad of batting; 4 - straight pins

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Terrie Hoelscher

Harpers Ferry, WV

Updated on Nov 16, 2010

Not a recipe, but I wanted to post it in the group "Crafty-ness", for those who have asked me for the instructions for this adorable Pineapple Turkey Centerpiece.

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prep time 45 Min

cook time

method ---

yield Many smiles

Ingredients

2 - 8-1/2 x 11 pieces of felt, red, brown, rust or orange color
1 - full pineapple, with nice, un-bruised leaves. the leaves will be the tail feathers.
4 small chenille balls - or, use two sm. chenille balls, and two small googly eyes
1 - 6" piece of red, brown or black yarn - for turkey's wattle
1 small wad of batting
4 - straight pins

How To Make pineapple turkey centerpiece

Step 1

I will have to send you the pattern, or if you're a good artist, you can come up with your own by looking at the photo above. Not too hard...

Step 2

Lay the pattern on top of both pieces of felt, then cut out turkey head on cutting line .
Step 3

Stitch with matching thread 1/4" from the edge,leaving open between arrows/heavy black lines. Trim as close as you like. Leave the back/bottom of the head open, for stuffing.
Step 4

Hot glue the googly eyes in place [or use chenille balls for eyes, too]. Put eyes on both sides. Hot glue the 6" loop of yarn where the turkey's wattle would hang [you'll only hang the wattle off one side of the beak]. Hot glue two more chenille balls on each side of bridge of nose, where raw ends of wattle yarn are.
Step 5

Stuff batting up inside head, trying to get it down into tip of beak, as well. Let stuffing come as far down as where the stitching stops/starts.
Step 6

Open out the back/open section of the felt head, and use straight pins to anchor the turkey head to the "unfeathered" end of the pineapple.
Step 7

Voilá ... He looks mighty proud to be struttin' in the middle of your Thanksgiving table!
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