Whats the best way to trace Jack-O-Lantern designs on the pumpkin?
“The best part of fall is the pumpkins,” says pumpkin carving artist Linnae Cumnock after sloshing the guts out of her subject. She then taped her smiling pattern to the pumpkin, making small rips at its edge to tuck in so the paper would conform to the round surface. Whipping out one of a handful of plastic tools designed for the job, she dotted the outline of her pattern with tiny holes. “You just put little indentations in the pumpkin,” she said. “If you poke it all the way through, it will leave little marks on the line (when it’s cut).” Removing the paper form, she produced a tiny sawtooth blade, perhaps the only metal tool in her shed. Cumnock had some advice as she followed the dotted line. “If you mess up, you can do cover-up on it where you carve around where you messed up,” she said, while not messing up her line. Sources: http://www.news-journal.com/feat
