You can also dye the yarn before you make them which will add a whole different dimension to your project. If you happen to be a knitter or have a close friend who is a knitter or a weaver you can easily get your hands on a lot of wool scraps that you can re purpose into fabulous looking pom poms. The other very important purpose for using them, is that you can make use of left over wool yarn and wool roving that you may have lying around your craft room from previous projects. Before we had zippers and buttons, pom poms would have been the way to create closings and pulls in a garment or handbag. However, many ancient and indigenous cultures have used them in their own traditional garments and some of them have functional uses. What is the purpose of pom poms?Īs mentioned before, nowadays decoration is the main factor when it comes to using pom poms as part of your textile crafts. It has many uses but typically they are attached to a woven blanket, a handbag, baby boots, baby woolen hats, a pillow, shoe laces, you can attach them to anything really. The best thing about this technique is that is SO quick you can churn pom poms out in no time at all – no more cumbersome round disc.They are usually referred to as small woolen balls which are attached to a garment, especially a hat, for decoration. They can be used in art collages or anything else you can imagine up, like these fluffy yarn pet rocks.
Instead of throwing out your pom pom trimmings store them in a plastic baggie and keep for future craft projects.
Now it just needs a good trim which is the big secret of making a fluffy, round pom pom. It will come out looking very shaggy and a bit uneven. Use your sharp scissors to cut the looped ends. Slide it off the end, turn it over and tie even tighter on the opposite side. While the yarn is wrapped around your cardboard pom pom maker tie it tightly in the middle. The yellow yarn in the image directly below is 8 ply, the other two are thicker. You can see I’ve made three different sizes.
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How to make a DIY cardboard Pom Pom maker You will Need: Quite possibly I’m a big dunce when it comes to following instructions but this way has been FAR quicker and easier for me.
I already own several plastic pom pom makers purchased inexpensively from the craft store and although I’ve given it a good shot I haven’t been able to figure them out.
In this day and age we’re all a bit less patient and that technique seems very cumbersome and tedious (I’m sure I don’t just speak for myself here).Īfter a some experimenting I’ve come up with a much quicker and easier way of creating big, fluffy pom poms. In the olden days when I was a child we used cardboard discs shaped like a donut and you would spend a very, very long time carefully wrapping yarn around and through the hole in the centre until it was plump and ready to trim. I really hate to admit this but as a craft blogger I struggled for a long time to make a decent pom pom. I hear you, and now I’ve added one! I’ve also created a short video tutorial. This craft has been super popular since I first published it in 2016, and I’ve had lots of questions about measurements and requests for a template. Here is an easy DIY pom pom maker you can create from a scrap of cardboard.
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