Pass your needle through the first button or bead and pull the thread through leaving a 1 yard / 1 metre tail. It's very satisfying it's like shearing a sheep (or so I would imagine, not ever having actually sheared a sheep.)ġ. Trim the pom pom, cutting off any longer pieces of wool so that you have a nice round ball. You should have a nice firm ball of wool.ĩ. Tear through your cardboard templates and remove them from the pom pom. TIP: if you are going to be sewing your pom pom to a hat, scarf or other item leave these ends long.Ĩ. Wrap it around a few times, pulling tightly to secure your pom pom and tie off. Take a length of wool and slide it between your two pieces of cardboard. Insert your scissors between the two layers of cardboard and cut through the wool all the way around the edge.ħ. Choose a point on the outer edge of your pom pom and part the wool so that you can see the cardboard templates. It should now be like a huge woolly doughnut.ĥ. Continue like this, tying on a new piece of wool each time you run out, until the hole in the centre of the card is almost closed and you can’t pull anymore wool through it. When you come to the end of your piece of wool, tuck it under a neighbouring strand to keep it in place.Ĥ. You can actually fold your length of wool 4 or 8 times before you start wrapping it around the template, the more times you fold it the quicker your pompom will grow.ģ. Work your way all around the template, creating a second layer of wool once you get back to the point where you started. Begin to wind the wool around your template, passing it through the hole in the middle, over the edge and back through the middle. Take a long length of wool (several metres), fold it double and tie it onto your cardboard at one end. Place two rings together, one on top of the other.ģ. Paste the template to the side of a cereal box or some other card of a similar thickness and cut them out. Be sure to select 'Actual Size' or set scaling to 'None' in your print settings.Ģ. I always thought a pompom ball pool would be pretty amazing.Īnyway, just in case you get hooked on making them and need something to do with them, here's a little tutorial for a pompom garland.ġ. My sister and I used to spend whole days making these during the school holidays. I'm no knitter but I'd probably knit a (very bad) hat just so that I'd have somewhere to stick my pom pom. So they might not be very useful but they are just so damn awesome that you won't be able to stop yourself once you get started making them. You can use pompoms to make scarfs you can use them to decorate stuff and other stuff. If you have older children they will love making these so get them involved too! It’s the sort of thing that should be done curled up on the sofa with a blanket and a cup of tea. Pompoms are great fun to make and so easy. They're like little balls of woolly goodness.
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