Choose your colours and make your own happy! Making Pom-Poms is a lovely, activity for all levels and is a versatile craft to decorate lots of projects. No two are ever the same, and in this project, you can use to up-cycle your jewellery.

Wear with pride, and always be fabulous!

Follow our step by step guide and make along to create some cute little Pom Pom Earrings!

Materials:

Sharp Scissors
Yarn
Pom Pom Maker
Hoop Earrings

Preparation

Before you start, have a look at all of your materials. Choose your colours and get to know your pom-pom maker. They come in lots of shapes and sizes, so have a little play around with it. I used a small 5x3cm size.

Get Making

Hold your pom maker in your non-dominant hand, select the yarn you are going to start with. Hold the yarn in the middle of the maker with your thumb of the same hand. Using your dominant hand to wrap the yarn, start from the middle and work out, wrapping the yarn with a medium tension, to the edge. Be sure to wrap evenly, as this will make sure you have a nice full pom-pom.

True Colours

If you want to add a few colours – like I did – you can add a few wraps of another colour. You do not need to plan this too much, just randomly is OK.

You can do this by wrapping the main thread to the side and leave it dangling. Then take a new colour, and start wrapping it, about 7 times all in one place. Cut the end and tuck into the yarn underneath. Then pick up the main thread and go over the top.

You can do this again, with another colour if you want too. Remember the pom-pom maker is quite small, so you do not want to choose too many colours.

Wrapping

Be sure to wind round the maker, until the semi-circle has been covered (see picture) and the yarn is level with the flat sides of the maker.

Repeat on the other side, so both sides are evenly wrapped.

Closing

Close both sides of the maker together.

Cutting

Insert your scissors into the slit, in the middle of the maker. Being really careful with your scissors, cut all the way around the maker. Mindful the scissors have a lot of yarn to cut through, so you do not want your fingers in the way.

Go slow.

Tie the Pom Pom

Cut a length of yarn (about 10cms long) to use as a tie for the pom-pom.

Insert the yarn in to the gap you have just cut. Bring the yarn all the way round the gap, so the ends meet. Pull tight, so the pom-pom feels really secure and double knot tightly.

Gently remove the Pom Pom from the maker.

An interjection for a Kindly Word

Now as the title says, a kindly word is needed here. Sometimes the pom-pom might fall apart at this point. Only sometimes (as I know you are a pro) when this happens, do not take it personally. Thank the little pom-pom, put the yarn in your odds and ends pot AND move on!

Trimming time

Now the fun part!

Roll the ball in your hands, so you can see the shape. Also, you have the tail piece of yarn left from when you tied your pom-pom together. Do not cut this off. Leave it hanging, until the pom-pom is on the hoop.

Start trimming.

You want to make sure you trim into a ball shape.

I spend twice as long trimming than I do making the pom-pom, and I like a neat trim. However, these are your poms, so trim to your happiness level.

Every now and then, roll the ball in your hands, so you can see the shape.

Note | When using sharp scissors and needles, please mind those fingers! We need them to do so many things.

Pom Pom Hoops

Once everything is complete, it is time to add to your hoop.

The reason, I have advised you to leave the tail of the pom-pom on, is so you know which way it needs to fix onto the hoop.

You want to put the hoop through the tie, as this will make sure it does not fall off (see picture for the position of the yarn tail).

Once you are happy the hoop is secure, trim the tail, and make any final trim adjustments.

Rinse & Repeat

Time to make the second one.

Make any final trim adjustments, ensuring they are consistent and the same size.

Put on the earrings and feel extra. As that is what you are right now! Breathe it in.

If I could tell you one thing…

Do not be shy when you are cutting the pom-pom, it can feel a bit intimidating, but you can do this!

Enjoy and go wild style!

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