You know the struggle! You make a yarn pom-pom and no matter how tightly you tie the center, it falls apart or easily pulls apart with a little tug on the strings. So frustrating! Especially when you are making pom-poms to embellish hats for gifts or to sell, you don’t want your product coming undone. Hot glue to the rescue! This might be an unconventional method, but it works for me and keeps my pom strings intact.
To create a small pom-pom, I wrap the yarn around 3 fingers (4 fingers for a larger pom) and as I wrap, I put a strip of hot glue along the center. Obviously you want to be careful not to get the hot glue on your fingers!
Watch the video below to see how it’s done:
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Hi Sarah , this is the BEST idea !now I will give making pompoms an other try ! Thank you
WOW….why hadn’t I thought of this. Thanks.
Thank you for this GREAT IDEA!!!! Mine always seem to pull out after numerous attempts & with different ways to make it…. Surely this one has to be fail safe :)….. Will use the small gun other wise OUCH!!! Blisters!
Missy …. you are a genius!!! Such a simple solution to a hair pulling problem.
Thank you
Thank you so much. Have dreaded making pom poms because of how they fall apart. 🙂
How does the glue hold up to having the pom pom washed?
You can buy fabric glue at any fabric store if you don’t trust the glue.
INGENIOUS!!! Thank you so much to a great ‘problem’ in crochet/knitting!
This is a pretty cool idea. Thanks for sharing! Love the background music, by the way.
Pretty awesome! To bad she clipped off so much yarn though what a waste. I would have used 2 fingers for that size pom and cut of would have been waste. I hate waste.
Great idea, thank you!
I love this, and yes no pieces come out, however, since there was all that superglue, i had a hard time attaching the hat. any advice.
Brilliant! Hesitated putting pom poms on kids hats before. Thank you!
Would this work if I were using my pom-pom makers, do you think?
Would this method work for pom pom makers? I am so not good with hand made pom poms. I bought the clover pom pom maker and it does make great pom poms but I still have the same problem that everyone else does….the strands pull out no matter how tight you tie them!
Looks just perfect! I’ll try it right away!
I absolutely love this way of making the Pom Pom not fall apart. Thank you so much for sharing this.
awesome work done…
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Great idea!!!!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You have saved my sanity.