A sickness I tell you
So when last we left the hat it had gotten pleasantly tall. But it whispered to me that we weren’t quite done…it needed one more little thing…
Yes, it’s true, I’ve fallen prey to the dread pompom sickness.
From what I can tell there’s no cure. Luckily, with the right treatment, it’s a fairly manageable condition.
And the symptoms aren’t even that bad when the yarn is this pretty!
For anyone wondering, the purple one is Entrapment, the pink one just came out this week and is called is Misprision, and the blue one should be out later this summer, possibly even next month. If you want to hear when it is, you can make that happen here. And the yarns are all by Madelinetosh (vintage in smokestack for the background, various shades of Tosh Merino Light or DK for the contrasty bits).
The pom-poms are fabulous (and I love the way you are doing them with both colors). I just think they’re so fun you have to smile when you see one.
I LOVE making pompoms, yours are so colorful and clever but I’ve never figured out how to attach then to the top of hats so they don’t look dangly and limp. I’ve searched a bit with no great AH-Ha moment. Most people say attatch; no matter how long I leave the tie, nor how tight I sew it in… dangly and limp.
So I found it helpful to leave two ties and attach both of them. That is, when you tie off the center of the pompom, do it with two totally different lengths of yarn. Then weave each of those into the hat. That way you’re held on at two points and it’s much more stable.
There could be a better way, but that’s what I do!
I made a bunch of pompoms at Christmas last year and used them instead of bows to decorate packages. I wrapped most of my gifts in brown paper lunch bags (just put the gift inside, close the bag, and fold over the top—works well for items you don’t have a box for), and I thought the red and green pompoms were rustic and handmade-looking, but super-cute. I used scads of yarn, so I just bought cheap acrylic at a big box store.