Pompons made from yarn served as an original decoration for many years. When creating this jewelry, needlewomen are asked questions such as the choice of high-quality yarn and the method of manufacturing the product.
This article provides tips and instructions for making a quality ball.
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Little tricks for making pompons.
In order to make original balls of yarn with your own hands, you will need some tricks to help you make fluffy balls of the correct shape.
To make the product more magnificent, dense and porous yarn is needed. The color scheme can be selected for every taste.
In order to give the product a suitable shape, you must have at hand well-sharpened scissors that are indispensable for this job.
Each element must be fixed with threads.
If you want to make a pompom with a pattern, then print the picture and wind the yarn, looking at it.
Balls on a fork
There are many ways to create pompons. And it is not necessary to look for complex tools: you can make them on improvised items. A fork may serve as such an item.
Making balls on such an instrument is very easy and simple, because there is no need to cut blanks - just get the plug.
Even a child can handle the manufacture of pompoms on a fork! To do this, you just need to wind the threads on the fork, tighten the other thread tightly in the middle, remove the threads from the fork, cut the side loops and straighten the finished pompon.
Everything! You don’t have to do anything else! An amazing way to quickly make many small pompons.
Balls on the hands
But what is more surprising is that you can even use your own fingers! It is made just as easy as on a fork, only winding yarn should be on your fingers.
If you want a larger pompom, then shake four fingers, if less - two. This method is most convenient for needlewomen, because you do not need to look for anything, even forks.
For the manufacture of just enough yarn, scissors and your hand, which is always with you. And if you use paper strips instead of threads, you can make an excellent paper pompom.
Balls on cardboard blanks
But if you are not looking for easy ways, then you can make large pompons with cardboard blanks. They can be of different shapes: horseshoe, circle, square. The same balls are obtained on all the blanks, but there is still a difference.
The easiest way is to make a pompom on a square blank. For this, a square with slots on both sides is cut out in advance. Threads are threaded through them, with which we will later fix the center of the pompom.
The yarn of the desired splendor is wound around the pattern. We knit the middle of the pompom with a setback thread, cut the lateral constrictions, straighten the ball, and now, the pompom is ready! You can use it already!
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It is more difficult to make a pompom on a round workpiece. For this, two circles of the same size are cut out of cardboard with round holes in the middle. The threads are wound so that the cardboard blank is not visible. Gently push the circles, tightly tie the middle of the pompom with a thread.
Carefully cut the threads along the edges of the workpiece, straighten the pompom.If desired, you can trim the edges of the product to give the shape of a ball.
Your pompon will be even more attractive if you use yarn of different colors. It will turn out a beautiful multi-colored ball, pleasing to the eye.
How to apply pompons?
From ready-made pompons you can do many things. For example, rugs and rugs from pompons have been very popular lately. They are unusually beautiful and pleasant to the touch.
The best thing is a product made of colored pompons of different sizes. Single balls can be sewn onto children's clothes. The pompom on a hat, scarf or even mittens will look great.
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And do not forget that you can decorate anything with pompons, so there are no restrictions. Another good idea is to make a garland of pompons. The result will not leave anyone indifferent.
Now you are convinced that making a pompom from yarn is very simple, even a child can handle it. But do not forget that scissors for children are not toys and do not allow children to use them unattended.
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