Hold the two long pieces of yarn out of the way and finish trimming any stray pieces and you’re done! Once you’ve made a couple, it will get so much easier. Don’t force it back together too much, a bit of the pin will still be showing. Remove your pom pom and put the maker back together and set it aside for the next one. I could only hold one side while taking a picture but here’s where you grab to pull.ġ0. Pull the maker apart by holding the colorful circles in the center and pulling out. Now you can unfold all four arms of the maker, one at a time. If you’re not going to be tying them onto something, they get clipped along with everything else. Stand over a trashcan and carefully trim the edges so that everything looks like a nice round circle on one side, flip the pom pom over and do the same thing on the other side.ĭon’t cut the long pieces that you’ll use to tie your pom pom onto your project. Find the shortest point and trim everything up so it’s all nice and round.Ĩ. Time for a haircut! See how the pieces are all uneven around the edges. See below how some pieces are a little longer. Once it’s tied off, use your fingers to brush each side of the pom pom out flat. Some people go back around to the other side and tie another knot. Use quite a bit of tension until you pull tightly around the center of the pom pom. It will almost make a clicking noise as you pull it tight to tie the knot. Take that first 10″ piece that you cut in the very first step and slide it between the grooves you used for cutting and pull them tight. You have to hold the wrapped arms together.ħ. Make sure there is no thread left in any of the grooves and be sure the thread that connected the two sides together during the wrapping stage is also clipped. Hold the wrapped arms together and turn the donut shape on its side and use the grooves in the maker to slide your scissors through all of the loops and cut them. If you’re not quite sure if both sides are even, you can fold the second side in to check and then fold it back out to remove some from the second side or add more.Ħ. When you’re done wrapping the second side, fold it in as well. Don’t worry about that piece that is stretched across. Watch the cleats again! Wrap these two arms until you get them the same size as the first side. Yes, you are really going to just pull the yarn across like the picture. Just pull the yarn to the other side and this time start wrapping from the inner portion and work your way out to the other side. Hold that side in, turn the maker over, and fold the other set of arms out. The pom pom might be a little fat, but just fold it in tight. When you get that side of the half-circle wrapped, make sure you end where you started on the outside tip and fold it in but DON’T cut the yarn. The right side is lumpy and bumpy and I need to work on making the yarn wraps more smooth.ĥ. The left side is nice and smooth and almost a perfect half-circle. This image is jumping ahead a bit but I wanted to demonstrate the correct way to wrap and the incorrect way. Keep wrapping until the yarn on the bottom side is not quite straight across. How many times you go back and forth depends on the thickness of the yarn and the size you’re making. The idea is to keep everything even in thickness and as rounded as possible. Remember, the cleats need to stay fully visible. Once you reach the center of the maker, work your way back in the other direction and cover any areas that you missed the first time. If you turn the maker over, you’ll see two square cleats. You’ll want most of the white portion covered. Start on the outside tip and hold your yarn in place (don’t tie a knot, use the yarn to hold itself in place as you wrap) and begin wrapping the yarn with reasonable tension around both arms and make one row with closely wrapped yarn until you reach the center of the maker. The second set of arms is still folded in on the left like below.ģ. The two white arms that were once on the bottom are pulled out and lined up with the outer arch facing up pictured on the right side. Pull out the two arms on one side of the maker and line them up so they’re flush. I used about a 10″ piece because I would rather have more than necessary than cut it too short.Ģ. The length of this yarn will depend on if you’re going to tie your pom pom to something or not.
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