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We were having a fiesta retirement party for a coworker and my Teamleader tasked me with creating a yarn banner she had seen. She grabbed up yarn from thrift stores in assorted colors. ( Hint 'limp' yarn did not look as nice and fluffy.) After making several I came up with this idea for keeping the pom-poms close to the same size.
Have one piece of cardboard with the middle cut out. The vertical is about how large you want your pom-poms, the horizonral is about twice that. Also have a few extra pieces of cardboard to make it easier to cut the loops.
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| Wrap yarn around the cardboard with the hole in the middle and a few extra pieces. How many??? Well I started at 25, then went up to 50 then after a while I could just tell when it was done. Try to not wrap too tight and try to keep even. |
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| Slid out the extra cardboard pieces |
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| Tie VERY tight in the middle. I would usually turn it around and tie on the back again. But then again, I am a little perfectionistic and did not want little bits of yarn falling out. Do leave long tails to tie with later. ( I used purple for demonstration purposes.) |
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| Cut one end of the yarn loops.... |
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| The cut the other end of the yarn loops and slide out. |
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| Trim. |
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| Fluff.... |
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| Repeat the process over and over and over again. Get friends and family to help! Then.... |
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| Tie the pom-poms onto yarn, I just left my yarn attached to the skein for when we hung it up, so we could have as much or as little yarn that we wanted. |
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| String the yarn from the ceiling, separating the pom-poms. |
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| We also had a funky donkey! |
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| All the colors came together... |
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| We got our co-worker retired with a fun and festive Fiesta party! |
