How to make pom poms out of yarn...
Warning! You will be covered in red fuzz when complete.
Start with a roll of yarn and a 10 inch cut piece of yarn close by.
Put the end of the roll in between your fingers to hold it and start wrapping the yarn around either 2, 3 or 4 fingers depending in the size you want your pom pom.
The more times you wrap the yarn the fuller your pom poms will be.
Take your 10 inch piece of yarn and stick it between two fingers.
Take the other end and also pull it between you fingers so you can tie it.
Slide the yarn carefully off your fingers.
Pull the scrap yarn tight around the yarn ball and secure with a knot.
Being careful not to cut off your knot start cutting the loops of yarn into two pieces all the way around the ball of yarn.
Keep cutting.
Until you have something that looks like this. Now you could leave it a bit wild and fluffy but I like to trim mine down.
Start giving your yarn ball a hair cut. The shorter you cut it the fuller the ball will be.
I cut this one VERY short for a very small full ball.
Here are examples of the same ball just trimmed to different lengths.
You can then use your 10 inch piece you used to tie off the ball to tie it to a package or tie a bunch together for even more fun.
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