Picture this: your 3 year old is taking her nap. Your 10 month old is taking her nap. You finally have a chance to sit down and do something, anything, nothing alone, when suddenly ... ding dong. The doorbell rings. The dog barks. There's a politician on your doorstep wanting your vote, your 3 year old is yelling "Mommy," the baby is crying, the dog is still barking and the politician is grinning from ear to ear while slipping brochures through the screened door.
I've griped about this before and I only have myself to blame for not yet cross stitching a snarky sign for my door that threatens anyone who dares ring my bell during nap time. I love neighbors and I swear I'm quite neighborly, but I'm a mommy on the edge when anyone tinkers with nap time.
Needless to say it was a candidate I would never in a million years vote for. I'm a journalist, so I can't specify but you can fill in the blank as you see fit.
What better way to cheer Mommy up than to make yarn pom pons (or pom poms or pompoms, however you want to spell it).
I saw a sweet little project recently on how to attach yarn pom pons to socks. I thought it was in the insanely adorable Small Magazine, but I can't seem to find it. Anyhow, yarn pom pons were on the brain when Bo started her post-nap dig through the craft cupboard and produced a skein of red yarn.
(Update: found it. The pom pom project I was thinking about was in the current issue of "Ready Made" magazine. I can't find a link to the project online, so you'll just have to go down to the market and pick up a copy yourself.)
The directions for the pom pons I saw recently were a little more complicated than the way I used to make them when I was a kid, so we opted for simplicity. And attaching them to socks would be adorable, but Bo's sneakers were within reach so we tied them to those instead.
Here are the steps to make your very own yarn pom pons, to satisfy the inner cheerleader in all of us.
First, wrap yarn around your hand several times (10 times? 20? whatever).
Then remove the yarn from your hand and lay the bundle on top of a piece of yarn that's about six inches long.
Tie that six-inch strand into a knot around the bundle, so you sort of form a figure 8.
Now, snip the looped ends of the yarn with scissors (preferably not with kitchen shears, as pictured here).
There you have it. Easy cheesy yarn pom pons. Use the two long strands to attach them to your shoes, your dog's collar, your bicycle, your luggage if you want your basic black suitcase to stand out in the baggage claim. Whatever.
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