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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Craft Project: Heart Shaped Pom Pom

Embellish gifts, hats, scarves, or whatever else you can think of with these adorable heart shaped pom poms. Simple directions below.

Supplies
Scissors
Yarn

Wrap yarn around fingers (at least 50 times). The more yarn the better.


Slip the yarn off your fingers. Tie a separate strand of yarn around the center of the ball of yarn (refer to dotted yellow lines). Make sure to tie the knot as tight as you can, cinching the yarn.

Cut all the loops of yarn with a pair of scissors.

Trim the yarn down to a regular shaped pom pom. Then, just trim the pom pom into a shape of a heart. Done.

38 comments:

Anonymous said...

that's the cuteness right there. :)

Rachel@oneprettything.com said...

AWWW! That is so, SO sweet! I love it. I'll be linking.

Anonymous said...

That is adorable!

alittlebitofscrap said...

Great idea, so cute!

Renna said...

I can't believe I never thought to do that with a pom pom!

Ms. Tee said...

So cute & I think I might be able to do this one! :)

Oiyi said...

Cute! I will have to try that with my PomPom maker.

macati said...

ohhhhh this is so cuuuuute!
have a nice weekend!

Pascale said...

Cute!

jafabrit said...

that is just adorable :)

Cindy said...

Cuteness is the word! And brilliant, or just ignorance on my part!! LOL! Thanks for know-how!

Larissa said...

What a cute little Valentine idea.

Jennifer said...

How adorable! And so easy to make! I can think of a few little girls who would enjoy these.

pomly said...

Wow! I love it so much.

Anonymous said...

This is a cute & simple idea - I love it. I just dropped you an email. :)

makeup_girl said...

That's so simple! Why can't I think of things like that?

Liz said...

Very cool. My kids would love a few of these.

#41x14 said...

you are brilliant!

xoxo,
craftYARD

zannestar said...

This is so stinkin' cute, I've been saying AWWWWWW out loud now for about 5 minutes. We'll have to make a few at our house. ADORABLE!

Heleen said...

This is so sweet, Ijust made pompoms today with the kids in my class. It is a nice tip!!

Paty said...

love the idea of the heart! very clever!

anon said...

thanks for posting. such a cute and EASY project. most projects i just dont have the time for, but this is great.

Anonymous said...

=)
it is a lovely project, i had to share it (as well as your incredible blog) with whoever comes by the blog!

-nana

Anonymous said...

Your pom pom heart is so adorable now I am going to a buy a ball of wool, maybe in pretty pink.:}

Anonymous said...

What a gorgeous idea!

I tried making it myself but once I'd made the pom pom ball, I somehow couldn't shape it into a heart, it just kept looking like a ball!!

Any tips on how to shape it?

zakkalife said...

The pom pom heart shape is just like the candy hearts. It's flat on the front and back. I found you can get a better shape if the front and back is flat opposed to rounded. Hope that make sense and helps. :)

consideration said...

Just wanna say that this instruction for the heart-shaped pom-pom was the best instruction for any craft project I have ever seen! THANK YOU VERY MUCH and I sure hope there will be more craft projects in the future.

Sincerely, Laurie Yair of Rehovot

Anonymous said...

Looks sooo cute and adorable :-)

Jessica Peter said...

Hi! Just letting you know I posted a link to this post in my Valentine's themed, Lovey Dovey blog post. http://jessdoesstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/lovey-dovey-lists.html

Anonymous said...

oooooooooooo this is so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wauwwww halaluaaaaaaaaaa

nivs said...

Well that's so cute I tried it. It cam out perfect but not as big as the one showed in the first picture! Even the length of the woolen strands was quite big. Please help! :)

Mrs Mary Joy Pershing said...

That is sooooo cute! Hmmmm...I can think of a few things to do with these!!! Thank you so much for the tutorial!!!

Silvania said...

genial.. oe pero como le das la forma de corazon... me quedo un poco revuelto el asunto .. jejeje pero seguire intentando...
gracias por la idea XD

Marcia_bordados said...

Que legal,asdorei,bjs

philomena said...

Ma che carino.
Complimenti.brava.
Tanti auguri di un
Sereno Natale

Xavier said...

Would it work the same way if i use my whole hand instead of two fingers ?

zakkalife said...

Xaiver,

Yes, you can use your whole hand but you will have to wrap more yarn around it. Your heart pop pom will also be larger in size.

Michelle L. said...

Hee, I love that so much I did that thing between a gasp and a squee. Is that a squasp?

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