...Well not just your hand... you will need yarn and scissors too. There are many ways you can create a pompom using many different implements. There are ways to use DIY cardboard and plastic shapes, purpose built pompom makers that you can buy, forks and the list goes on and on. But when you are stuck with limited crafting materials or too lazy to fashion a cardboard circle, you have your good old hand.
This method makes a medium sized pompom, the width of your fingers held together. Is it the neatest method that makes a perfectly uniform pompom? No. But I have found it to be a good alternative when you are in a pinch.
1. Hold you hand palm up and pinch the end of the yarn between your thumb and the bottom of your little finger. Then wrap the yarn around the back of your fingers, back across the front and then around the back again.
2. Continue wrapping the yarn from front to back, trying to keep the yarn from falling off the end of your little finger. You will need to wrap the yarn around approximately 100 times in order to get a nice full pompom at the end.
3. After you are happy with the number of wraps, cut the end of the yarn in line with the bottom or top of your hand. Then feed the newly cut end of your yarn in the gap where your middle two fingers meet. Mine was quite tight, so I posted a tapestry needle through. Wrap the yarn around the entire bundle of loops to meet the end you posted through.
4. Make a tight knot in the yarn tying the bundle. For a tighter hold, you can slip the bundle off of your fingers, being very careful not to drop any of the loops and to keep your tie around them in the middle. Either keep both ends of this tie long, so you can tie it to whatever you like, or cut one length the same as the pompom lengths an leave one long for sewing it on.
5. Cut along the top of the loops along one side of the bundle. Make sure you are cutting directly in the middle, or you will end up with a lopsided pompom.
6. Do the same along the opposite side.
7. Fluff up the fibres to make a more rounded shape and trim any particularly long lengths of yarn.
8. Depending on how you would like your pompom to look and the yarn you have used, you can then choose to comb out the pompom or not. In a very DIY manner, I took a hairbrush to mine. Working from the tips of the yarn lengths inwards. Et voila! A rustic, but still beautiful pompom.
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