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pom pom garland for Valentine's Day
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Valentine Pom Pom Garland

Make a Valentine's Day pom pom garland for your holiday decor. The heart poms are easy to create.
Course Valentine’s Day Crafts
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 45 minutes
Servings 1 garland
Cost $10

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 4 skeins Yarn pink, red, dark red, white
  • Thin cardboard

Instructions

  • Pick up the pom pom maker. Open one side of it (both pieces) and begin wrapping the yarn as shown (while holding one of the yarn). You're going to keep wrapping the yarn until you have completely filled one side of the tool, including filling the "U" shape with yarn.
    Wrapping yarn around one side of a pom pom maker
  • When you are finished wrapping one side, close it and feed the yarn over to the other side as shown below. You're going to undo the other side of the pom pom maker, and wrap the yarn just as you did. Then you will close the tool.
    Wrapping yarn around the second side of a pom pom maker
  • Use the scissors to cut the yarn on each side of the pom pom maker, while still keeping it closed.
    Pom pom wreath handshots
  • Cut a scrap piece of yarn, and tie it around the center of the tool tightly. You're going to make a knot by double tying. You want to make sure it's tight enough so that when you remove the pom pom, it doesn't come apart. You don't need to pull so tight that you break the yarn, but you do need to make it snug.
    Tying off a pom pom with a string
  • Open both ends of the tool and pull apart to remove the pom pom.
    Hand holding an open pom pom maker
  • The pompom will come out very shaggy, so you'll want to trim it up with the scissors, plus the excess yarn from tying.
    Trimming a finished pom pom with scissors
  • Repeat the process, making six pompoms with each color except red. You'll make seven of those.
    Hand holding a red pom pom
  • Make a heart template that fits your red pom poms. Draw the template on the thin cardboard and cut out with scissors.
  • Hold one red pom pom in your hand and smooth the yarn out from the center. Place the template down and cut the heart shape with scissors..
    Cutting around the heart template with scissors
  • Repeat with each red pom pom until you have all the hearts you want.
    Finished red heart pom pom
  • Thread the yarn onto the tapestry needle, then thread the pom poms onto the garland through the centers. Start with a heart, then rotate through the colors.
    Pulling yarn through the heart pom pom
  • Hang the garland. Space the pom poms out to desired length apart.
    pom pom valentine garland

Video

Notes

Time varies significantly for this project depending on how quickly you wrap the yarn. I suggest settle down with a few movies.
I made six pom poms of each color except for red - which I made seven of. They are the hearts for this project.
You can use a single or double strand of yarn to hang this garland. I like to use a double strand just because you'd be surprised at how heavy the poms get.