You know when you get an idea in your head and then you have to DO THE THING? I know some of you do.
The most recent example for me was mini pom poms. I’d been idly thinking about how I’d make them, on and off, and it never occurred to me to Google it.
Turns out there’s a well recognised technique to make them with scraps of yarn and a fork. A fork! I have forks!
It happened to be Claire Farrall Designs who had the tutorial I followed, but there are loads out there. Basically wind the yarn round a fork, tie it through the gap in the middle of the tines, and trim.
I found I got a better result using thread to secure the middle, though it was very challenging to pull it tight enough without it breaking. Once I had three pom poms, I threaded them on to a blanket/kilt pin, then kind of sewed them to each other in a freestyle way. Not haphazard. Freestyle.
You may recognise the variegated and purple yarns from my Texture Shawl. There’s quite a bit of green in the variegated, and I had a lovely little ball of matching green in the scraps jar, so that all worked out nicely.
Cute, right?
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