So any of my regular followers may have noticed that my 'small' hiatus has been a rather large one. WELLLLL our big year has turned into an even bigger one! My husband and I found out we are expecting our first baby! We're over the moon with this news and so are our families. But the pregnancy has drained the heck out of me and I'm just now starting to get back on track. And to add to the excitement we're in the process of buying our first house. So things are very busy around here and thus my hiatus has kind of been extended. BUT my mother has offered to do a special guest post and teach y'all how to make Pom Poms! So I'm just going to hand this over. YOU WILL NEED:
You're going to start by doubling up your yarn. You can do it with single string thickness but the pompoms are much 'poofier' if you double your string. Then take your string and wrap it around your toilet paper rolls. Stick it between your rolls to get started and then wrap around both rolls. You're going to wrap the yarn 80x. At least to make it as big as she's going for. You can probably do less for smaller pompoms. Then take a single string of yarn and place it down the center of the rolled yarn and toilet paper rolls. Flip it over and tie the string, sliding your rolled yarn off the tp rolls. Take your tied up ball and start cutting the strings. The pompom is a big awkward acorn looking thing, but we're going to fix that. So you're going to cut out two circles from cardboard and use them to squish the yarn acorn. Then take your scissors and cut the string off that's sticking out from inbetween the cardboard. Take it out, shake it off, and then you're going to flip it and cut in the opposite direction. And then fluff it up again and you've got your finished pompom. If there are any uneven strings just snip them down to make the rest.
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