A bit of even wrapping for the top and a small triangle wrap below. For this one, you can start with the areas in dotted lines. Then wrap the sides of this evenly (including the white top part) in white yarn (or whatever color you’re using for the letter) to make the curved line. This will help building up the yarn outwards in a straight line and make the area where the 2 colors meet neater.Īfter wrapping for the straight line on the top, continue to fill the rest of the area marked with the pink dotted line with more yarn as shown. To create straight lines in the letters, like in the D, E, H, T etc, you could prepare 2 different colored yarns as in the pic, hold and wrap them together next to each other. This one shows letter D, but turned around to make it symmetrical.

You can then apply these techniques to any letter you want to make. I’ve made a few more instruction pics below for making other letters. Now you just need to wrap the background color to completely surround the letter. Now for the area marked in blue (the side bars of A), wrap all over the triangle. Wrap more yarn gradually towards the bottom to form a triangle shape. The very top is wrapped around only once for the pointy corner. Imagine the shape for your final pompom, but make it narrower as it will expand when you cut it open. To create the area inside the blue dotted line first, you can wrap the yarn in a corresponding shape as in the pic. If you haven’t made pompoms before, start with the flowers and animals then move on to the letters. Turn letters like C,D, E etc by 90 degrees, or for L by 45 degrees for this symmetry as you see in my crappy drawings above.Īlphabet pompoms are a bit trickier than the animals ones. Start by drawing a letter and draw a line through the middle so it’s symmetrical on both sides. They look very poor and unpresentable now.), fabric scissors, colorful yarns What you needĭrawn letters for reference, pompom maker (I’m still using the cardboard ones I made for the flower pompoms. For non-symmetrical ones like F, S etc, I came up with a new way using two different halves. This is fine for all the symmetrical letters. I’ll try to explain the principal as much as I can, although I can’t explain every single letter I’m hoping you can try some and improvise.Īs with the previous tutorials, you wrap yarns in layers to reveal symmetrical designs. I wanted to try ABC pompoms because, then I have an excuse to make 26 pompoms! I just completed all 26 letters for the 3D alphabet templates which was a bit time-consuming so I came to my senses and tried a few letters only. I seem to have been bitten by a pompom bug (pompom bug! Hey that’s another idea).

I really didn’t know whether I would make more pompoms when I tried the flowers, but since I made the animals I suddenly have so many ideas and now can’t wait to make more pompoms! All my to-do lists have floated out of the window.

Cool and easy crafts with pompoms