Pom Pom Tutorial

After posting a picture of this guy on DA the other day...

... I've been asked how I make the pom poms. Here's how!

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There are many different ways to make Pom Poms; some involve wrapping yarn around 2 discs of card, some use a special pom pom maker, and this is the way I make them:

Wrap yarn around your fingers about 30 times

With a longer length of the same colour yarn (I'm using a different colour here so you can see what I'm doing), thread it between your fingers. Wrap it around the yarn and tie a double knot

Remove the bundle of yarn from your fingers and snip the loops to form a pom pom. And that's it!

Sew Pom Pom to project with what’s left of the long piece of yarn

Pom Poms can be made bigger or smaller by adding or taking away the number of fingers you wrap the yarn around, and also how many times you wrap it round too - for example - wrapping yarn around your fingers 60 times will make a fuller pom pom than doing it only 20 :)

I hope that was useful!