Pompom

“If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a cup of milk.” If you give Faith a pompom maker, she is going to ask for smaller scissors.

Pompoms are all the rage now, (or were back when it was still winter) and I am a perfectionist. None of my hats have pompoms because I do not like the way they turn out when I try to make them by wrapping yarn around my fingers, tying it, and cutting it. So I decided to get one of those pompom makers believing that it would make pompoms look perfectly even. 

I needed a quick homework break one night, so I decided to pull out the smallest pompom maker for its inaugural test run. What was supposed to be a relaxing  5 minute homework break turned into 15 or so minutes of frustration. Wrapping the yarn around the pompom maker took no time at all, cutting it was an entirely different story.

The picture above shows the triad of scissors I used while trying to hack the yarn apart. I used little pink ones, then blue craft ones, then ones from my toolbox, then toolbox pair backwards so that the skinner side was in the ridge. I grabbed my box cutter for a moment, but put it back after realizing how dumb that would be. The YouTube videos for these little Pompom makers make it look so easy. But they don’t tell you (at least not in the one video which I’m using to build this generalization upon) that the scissors you use need to be small. Not small as in little children’s scissors. No. Small, sharp scissors to get under the yarn and in the little ridge. Also, twisting three strands of yarn together made it thicker and therefore more difficult to cut than the single strand. After trying out each of the different sized pompom makers, I’m still perfecting my trimming skills so that the pompoms don’t look oblong.