Okay y’all if you know me you know I am obsessed with all things poms! While I was home in Houston, my mom and I spotted these bad boys at Macy’s!
||Merry Christmas Garland|Pompom Garland||
(I promise the Merry Christmas matches the poms in person!)
I was all over them like white on rice. I have a huge window in my house in Fort Worth, so I always like to have little festive things hanging from it. Then we found this wreath.
It was the same brand as my garland, and matched everything perfectly! The only downfall was, it was $55 on SALE! My mom was like oh no Caroline, we can make this. Many YouTube tutorials later and a few trips to Hobby Lobby, here is my finished product!
It was surprisingly easy. So here is my own little tutorial on how to make this cute little pompom wreath.
HOW TO MAKE A POMPOM WREATH
What you need:
Yarn of all different colors
A wire wreath
SHARP scissors
Cardboard
A cup
2 toilet paper holders
2 paper towel holders
A box or towel to catch your mess (it does get VERY MESSY)
Step 1: Use your cardboard and cup to cut out two little perfect circles. On my wreath I have several different sized so I had 3 sets of different sized circles.
(clearly I am not that great at cutting perfect circles hahahaha)
Step 2: Pick out which yarn you want to use first and cut about a 6 inches to a foot off.
Step 3: Grab your toilet paper holders. Place the end of the yarn in between the two holders and start wrapping
Step 4: Wrap the yarn around the 2 toilet paper holders for larger poms 200 times and for smaller poms 140 times
Step 5: Grab the yarn you cut in step 2, and bring it up in between the 2 toilet paper holders and tie it
Step 6: Gently slide out the toilet paper holders and tie the string in a tight knot
Step 7: Cut the loops of the poms so that they are strings and not loops. (Don’t worry they look really ugly and floppy right now, but it’ll get better)
Step 8: Grab the cardboard circles from step 1 and your box (This is when things start to get messy!!) Then put the long string from where you tied the knot through the hole at the top, and place the other circle on the bottom of the pom right below the upper circle. Then start trimming off all the little strings that are hanging off the sides. Make sure you keep the long strings where you can see them (I wrapped them around my finger), because you don’t want to cut those off.
Step 9: Flip the pom over to its side and repeat step 8 until your pom looks the way you want it.
(I tucked my long strings under the cardboard so I knew I wasn’t cutting them)
Step 10: Repeat these steps until you have enough poms to fill your wreath.
Step 11: Use the long stings you were careful not to cut to tie the poms to your wreath
(Shoutout to Paigey (my mom) for helping me get all my poms tied on)
Step 12: once you have all the poms tied on go back and cut off the long stings
Then you are done! You have a perfect pompom wreath to hang on your door!
