So, for about a year and a half now, I’ve been purchasing my faux fur pom poms from amazon. And, believe me, that can start getting kind of expensive and you’re really just a slave to the colors and sizes that are available there. Whenever you’re looking for something a little more unique or something bigger or smaller than the standard sizes, you either have to go searching for somewhere that stocks specialty bobbles (pretty much etsy) OR you have to pay about a GAZILLION dollars for something in either a LYS or online. So not cool.

So, I got to thinking, making my own bobbles can’t possibly be that difficult… and I was RIGHT! They are so ridiculously easy! If you can knit or crochet, you can make your own bobbles. Here’s how!!

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What You Need:

Scissors
Needle and Thread
Faux Fur
Something Circular to trace
Sharpie/a marker
Fiber Fill or waste yarn
A button

How to Pom Pom:

Step 1:
Get the faux fur you plan to use for your bobble. Long pile (long hair) make the best pom poms imo. What I’m using for the tutorial is actually remnants from fur I used for my Halloween costume last year. But, you can get faux fur from a lot of different places. For example, the remnants bins in Joann Fabric usually have some nice chucks of fur in them. Also, in a lot of craft stores, they have small portions of faux fur for crafting like this.

Step 2:
Take your ‘something circular’ and with a sharpie or marker, trace around it onto the back of the faux fur. I used the lid from a candle (bought from a certain soap and lotion store that starts with a B that is known for such things) because they are the perfect size for bobbles! My ‘something circular’ is 4” in diameter.

Step 3:
Cut along the circle. Make sure that you are only cutting the fabric under the fir and not the fur. Brushing the fur away from where you are cutting and just snipping the fabric is the best course of action.

Step 4:
With a needle and sturdy thread (I used carpet thread from the WWII era that I inherited from my Great Gran :D) Sew about 3/4 around the outside of the circle with about half an inch between each stitch.

Step 5:
Cinch circle so that there is just a small gap and then stuff the pom pom with either fiber fill or scrap yarn. I use scrap yarn when I stuff my bobbles because I have tons of it on hand and it works just as well as fiber fill (and it’s free!)

Step 6:
Sew the rest of the way around the pom pom, pull closed. Then sew back through, back and forth, to make sure the pom pom is closed securely.

Bonus:

One of my subscribers said she uses a button on the inside of her hats to make her pom poms detachable so that she can wash her hats. And, now, I also do the same thing! It’s so simple and makes washing so much easier.

Step 1:
Sew a button in the center of the top of the hat on the inside.

Step 2:
Attach waste yarn to your pom pom. I like to put it through where the pom pom is sewn closed with at least .5 of an inch in the center of the waste yarn. I used a different type of yarn than my hat because it’s easier to see where the pom pom yarn is vs, the hat yarn.

Step 3:
Push both sides of the waste yarn through the top of the RS of the hat, then wrap the yarn snugly, many times, around the button on the WS of the hat.

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