Hallo beautiful creative friends!
Yesterday I bought a beautiful wool scarf from the €1 used clothing stall at our local market, with the plan of making a big pompom for on top of a favourite hat (which felt like it was missing a pompom!)
Here I'm unravelling the lovely colourful wool from the scarf...
It made a large ball of wool :-D
Then I cut two circles from an old cardboard box:
I made a smaller ball than the big one I made from the scarf - so it can fit through the hole in the middle of the cardboard rings!
Then I put these circles together, and began winding the wool around them.
As you can see, I was keeping straight from inside to outside, like radiating lines of light...
The wool layers need to be built up fairly thickly - below I'm about half-way to filling the ring:
And this is how full it looked when I decided to finish the winding of the wool:
NOW: THE CUTTING OF THE WOOL! NERVE-RACKING!
First, I pulled the wool apart to see the card, then got the blade of the scissors - you need big strong scissors or a sharp knife for this part:
It's quite hard work this bit - especially with thick wool like this!
This is how it looks when it's cut all the way around.
Then I got a length of the wool, doubled or tripled over, depending on how heavy the pompom will be :-)
Here, I'm adding the wool cord - putting it all around the circle, between the inside of the two pieces of card - so that it will keep all the wool pieces together:
I tie it as tight as possible, once it's all the way around.
Then the exciting bit! I cut the cardboard circles and pull them out one by one:
So it finally looks like this!
I trimmed some wee strands that were sticking out, as the wool was still quite 'curly' from having been unwound from a knitted form in the scarf - you can fix this by winding it very tightly in a ball - I just wound it loosely, as I wanted to see what a curly pompom was like :-D