return on creativity: pom pom garland

Several weeks ago I "repinned" a pictorial tutorial for making yarn pom poms.  (Unfortunately this pin no longer links to a valid website that I can tell.)


I wanted my pom poms to be larger than those in the tutorial so I found this spatula in my kitchen and thought it would work perfectly.

I tied one end of my yarn to a tine to start off.

Then I started wrapping the spatula.  Through trial and error I found that I got much nicer poms if I wrapped evenly rather than randomly.

I kept wrapping until I had gone around the spatula eight times.

Then I threaded yarn through a hole in the bottom and tied a knot.

After I worked the yarn off the spatula I tied the pom into a tighter knot with two ends of yarn.  I left a long loop for hanging the pom (which you can see on the left side of the picture below).

Now the fun part...cutting the loops.

I also gave my poms a little haircut, giving them a nice round shape.  I crocheted a simple chain of a cream colored yarn on which to hang my poms.  (If you can't crochet, braided yard would look nice too.)

I hung the poms by the loops to finish up my garland.  

I think they look great in a window, on a mantle, or as a fun party decoration.  Hope you enjoy and thanks for subscribing!

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