An Epic Stocking Cap: Day 5

Today, I'm not really going to have time to work on the hat much. I don't think, anyway. But this morning my first order of business was to make a giant pompom for the end of the hat. I'd never made a pompom before, though I'd heard it takes a lot of yarn so I wanted to get it done before the end of the hat to make sure I had enough to do correctly.

What you do for a pom pom first is to cut two rings out of cardboard, about an inch bigger than you'd like the pompom itself to be. The hardest part of that is getting the middle out. If I'd had an exacto knife it'd have been better, I think, but I made do. You put the two discs together and then begin to wind your yarn. Since I was doing five colors, I cut five lengths of yarn, one of each color, and began to weave it around the ring.

You thread the yarn through a tapestry needle (basically a big needle that's mostly blunt) and thread it around and around the exterior of the cardboard rings.

When you've crammed all the yarn into the middle that you can, you go around the edge with scissors and cut all the yarn apart. Then, now that you can get in between the rings of cardboard, you take a length of yarn and wind it around the middle as tightly as you can, knot it, and cut away the cardboard. Then  you get...

Also, my fish, Monday, says hi. =)

Sweet. =)