![]() Next you cut a long piece of yarn and thread it through the groove. This picture made me think of a macaron…random I know… Here is a picture showing the top view and the groove that your scissors are supposed to follow. ![]() Once your scissors have made its way around the entire circle, you are left with this! This cutting is a very smooth process as the groove between the arches helps guide your scissors and the yarn begins to splay towards each side. You place your scissors in the gap between the arches and begin cutting… You push the arches together and then get a pair of sharp scissors ready! Once you’ve wound enough yarn on the bottom arches (I also did it three times), you can cut off the yarn. This little piece of yarn that is connecting the top and bottom arches will be cut later on! Next you begin winding the yarn around the two bottom arches. You then feed the yarn through the gap between the two top arches and two bottom arches. How much yarn you wind around the arches will determine the thickness and fullness of your pom pom! Once I hit the right side, I actually wind more yarn by going towards the left side and then go back towards the right side again (going across arch three times).Īfter all the yarn winding, you want to end with the strand pointing towards the right side… When you’re winding the yarn, you want to make sure that absolutely no colour is visible (i.e. You begin winding the yarn around one arch starting from the left side and moving towards the right.īe sure to hold the arches tightly together so that they’re aligned (both top and bottom arches are comprised of two separate arches that are side-by-side). The two arches of the pom pom maker can swing apart like so… These are the two pom pom makers that come inside the package. I later discovered that there are more in-depth instructions on the inside of this package, but by then I had already found out how to use the Clover pom pom maker by finding a very helpful video on-line (I’ll link to it at the end of this blog post)! I thought I would show you some step-by-step photos of how to use this pom pom maker as you might be interested in how it works too □ The back of the package includes some instructions on how to use the pom pom maker, but I did not find them very comprehensive or thorough. I knew the Large set was more appropriate for me since I would mostly be making poms poms for hats! On the package it says that “ actual size will vary depending on type of yarn used and thickness”. The Small set makes pom poms with diameters of 1 3/8 inches/35 mm & 1 5/8 inches/45 mm. I purchased the Large set seen below which makes pom poms with diameters of 2 ½ inches/65 mm & 3 3/8 inches/85 mm. ![]() Since you get two different sizes in one package, each pom pom maker came out to be only $2.50 which I thought was a great deal! I waited for a 50% off coupon and managed to snatch the last pom pom maker two weekends ago- it’s about $10 regular price, so it was only $5 with the coupon. I was always intrigued by the plastic pom pom makers I had heard about and seen on-line, and I was delighted when I saw the Clover pom pom maker being sold at my local Michaels! I’ve loved using my Clover Amour crochet hooks as well as my Clover stitch markers, so I was excited to try this particular Clover tool. I’ve done my fair share of yarn pom pom making in the past as I love adding pom poms to hats (see my “ Easy Ribbed Pom Pom Beanie” HERE) and we hung yarn pom poms from manzanita trees as decor for our baby shower two years ago (see HERE)! We cut out two doughnut shapes out of cardboard to serve as our pom pom makers, and they were quite effective although the cardboard started to fray and become flimsy over time.
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