I’ve been slowly building up a small arsenal of yarn. I’ve got this crazy idea, that I’m going to learn how to crochet. Oh how I wish I could go back in time and accept my mother’s offer to teach me. But no, I had to think it was lame. I can spend hours perusing Etsy, just pouring over pages of vintage afghans. I’m especially drawn to the bright and colorful ones. Which is funny, because my favorite color is white. My kids absolutely can’t stand that white is my favorite color. They scoff and tell me it can’t be my favorite, because it’s not really a color. Wait until they find out my second favorite color…grey.
So while I’m waiting to learn crochet, I have to find fun ways to use my yarn. Because, despite my love affair with white, I’m addicted to all the fun colors. A few weeks ago, we made these pencil pouches. Then, the other day I saw this tutorial on making pom poms with a fork. I made a few and they were really easy. I knew Savannah, my 24/7 crafter, would love making these. I showed her how to wrap the yarn around the fork. I did most of the initial cutting, because you have to use pretty sharp scissors to cut through all that yarn. She shaped them with her scissors, which made for some wonky pom poms. I polished them up a bit and they turned out great. A word of warning though, you can’t just make one pom pom. We added ponytail holders to ours and because we made so many, we set aside a few for friends.