Who fancies some pom-pom loveliness in their lives? What is it about pom-poms that makes them so irresistible....and they seem to be everywhere at the moment.
I made wreaths like these for my chums in work and they seemed to go down well. My pals are used to my home-made gifts, and seem to appreciate them (unless they're good actors ha ha).
This years inspiration came from wreaths made by my mum - you may recall my earlier wreath-related post when I mentioned my mums penchant for wreaths - you can read that here.
The pom-poms are made possible using these little beauties - have you seen them before? They enable production of pom-poms without those cardboard rings I can recall using as a child. In case you are keen to find out the magic of the pom-pom makers, read on!
Once you have opened the gadget out, the first step is to wind wool around the outside semi-circles (pink in the picture above). As much as you can fit round will make your pom-pom luscious and lovely.
After folding the coloured parts back into the middle, the next step is to snip all the way round. It's hard to see at his point how this will become a pom-pom but stick with it, the magic will happen! (nb my continuity isn't great, I know - I kept getting so carried away with the pom-pom making that I forgot to take pics!
Once it's snipped it looks like this.......
Or like the version above if your camera-work is as dodgy as mine - sometimes I just can't get the thing to focus, I definitely need some tips! At this stage you need to tie some wool around the middle of the gadget. It needs to be really tight as there's nothing worse than a loose pom-pom!
Then when you open out the edges an amazing pom-pom will be revealed - TA-DAH!!
To make the wreath itself, you need a polystyrene wreath, you can see the type of thing I mean in hobbycraft. It takes a bit of patience to wind the wool round as it's a bit fiddly, but I persevered and (with a little help from my mum) ended up with this lovely pile:
How satisfying is that!
They look nice even like this, but once the pom-poms are added (with the help of a trusty glue gun) they look even better. (I love glue guns too, I'm quite easy to please really). I also glue a ribbon at the top so they are easy to hang. Here they are, the finished wreaths:
What I love about making presents is that you can tailor them to the recipient - so my very chic pal who has a cream and white decor loved her neutral wreath - and although these were Christmas gifts, you really could make them any colourway and change them according to the season. A bit like one of my all-time favourite blog heroes Lucy and her AMAZING wreaths, which are far more detailed and super-complicated, and would probably take me about a year to make. (Lucy if you ever happen upon this blog I hope you don't mind me referring to your blog here, I'm not 100% on blog etiquette just yet!).
Enjoy your week wherever you are......I'll be finishing work this week so my Christmas prep will be stepping up a gear.....Love Tor x x
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