After all, you are going to cut the yarn into lots and lots of little pieces in step 5. One final note: You do not need to use a continuous strand of yarn to make a pom-pom. A sparse pom-pom of perhaps 10 or 30 strands with each strand topped with a knot is quite charming-the knots give the strand ends a little heft and they swing about charmingly when you move and look like a little fountain, or a spray of fireworks. You can solve this problem by tying a little overhand knot (granny knot) in the end of each strand of the pom-pom yarn. In a very bushy pom-pom, this will not be a problem, because the yarn has not the room to unravel, but in a sparse pom-pom, you may face this issue.ī.& c.
In real life, of course, your center yarn would be the same color as the pom-pom, and it will therefore be invisible.Ī. The ends of the center yarn can be used to attach the pom-pom to the hat top (or whatever else you are decorating). Remember not to pull on any one strand, or it will pop loose of the pom-pom. (above) Fluff the finished pom-pom into a three-dimensional shape.
Refinements are possible: for example, you can wind the center yarn several times around strands once they have been cut free, knotting with every re-wind, or knotting just once at the end.ħ. Tie the center yarn in a very tight knot-this knot is what holds your pom-pom together. (above) Working carefully, pull up the center yarn tightly, then remove the form and lay it aside. Insert a scissors between the two layers of the form and cut the strands of pom-pom yarn where they pass over the outer edge of the form.Ħ. (above) Lay the form on a table and press it down firmly. The more yarn you wrap around the form, the bushier your pom-pom will be.ĥ.
#MAKE POMPOM FULL#
(above) As with the full circle form, wind the yarn around and around whole length of the three-quarter form, making sure that the center yarn does not get lost inside the form. As shown, with a three-quarter form, as with the original full circle form, you begin by laying a yarn in between the two layers.Ĥ. Being as lazy as the next 10-year old, I figured that, per illustration 3 (above), if one-quarter of the circle form is cut away, it is MUCH faster and easier to wind the yarn around the resulting three-quarter pom-pom form, and the pom-pom comes out just as well. When I was 10, I had to make dozens of pom-poms for a project. As you can imagine, it is something of a pain to wind the yarn through that center hole again and again. On illustration 2, you can see that the center hole is small. (above) Wind yarn (illustrated in green) over the doughnut, around and around, working the yarn through the center hole on each pass.ģ. Sandwich a yarn (illustrated in red) in between the two layers.Ģ. (above) The traditional way to wind pom-poms: Cut two cardboard doughnuts of the same size. Immediately, the little voices in my head led me to sit down and illustrate this subject.ġ.
#MAKE POMPOM HOW TO#
Includes 8 illustrations, click any illustration to enlargeĪ couple of days ago, a knitter on a community board asked how to make pom-poms.
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