Winter Yarn Pom Wreath

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Yarn pom wreaths have been on my radar for a few years now.  I love their nostalgic quality (who didn’t make yarn poms growing up!) and their homemade, unpolished look.  I decided to finally make one for our front door this year, and chose to make it all in white poms to contrast against our burgundy door.  The white poms look very wintry and snowy without being specific to any season.  The cozy texture also goes well with all the home-y plaid we have going on inside the house this year.

I used a 15 11/16 inch wide wreath form and used one and a half skeins of yarn (approx. 530 yards of light weight yarn).  I had wanted to find a chunkier weight yarn, but my store only had chunky yarn in off-white or cream when I wanted snowy white.

PRO TIP:  If you knit or crochet, you probably already know this tip.  ALWAYS check the dye lot before you purchase several skeins of the same color yarn.  Just because they are labeled the same color (in this case “Antique White”) does NOT mean they will match!  I had to go back and switch out one of my skeins because it was significantly pinker than the other two.  Skeins from the same dye lot should all match.

The only skill involved in making this wreath is the ability to make yarn poms.  The process takes a few steps, but once you have the hang of it, it is a mindless process.  You can easily make up all the poms you need while catching up on some Netflix.  I recommend Sherlock or Arrested Development.

1.  Cut a 4-5 inch length of yarn and lay it between your middle and ring fingers.  Place the end of the yarn (still attached to the skein) over your four fingers.

2.  Wrap the yarn around your fingers until the yarn is the desired thickness.  For my poms, I wrapped the yarn around my fingers 50 times each.  Cut the yarn off of the skein.

3.  Turn your hand over and wrap the 4-5 inch length of yarn around the yarn you have wrapped around your fingers.

4.  Turn your hand palm up again, and tie the ends of the 4-5 inch length of yarn in a single knot.

5.  Holding on to to that single knot, carefully slide all the yarn off your fingers.  Tighten the knot as much as possible, and double knot it.

6.  Use your scissors to cut all the yarn loops into strings.  You made a yarn pom!

7.  Use your scissors to even up the yarn and make it into a sphere.

Technically you can make a yarn pom wreath with a wire or straw wreath form, but I would have gone mad trying to tie each pom onto a form AND get them each positioned correctly.  Using a foam wreath is so much easier.  Just slip a floral pin through the middle of each pom.

Then press the floral pin anywhere on the form that you need to cover.  The pins stay in the foam very well, but you can add a dab of glue to the pin before inserting it into the foam if you feel you need the extra security.

Continue adding poms in a circle around the center of the wreath form.

After the first circle is finished, add in poms in circles inside and outside of that first circle.

Trim off any yarn pieces that are noticeably longer than the others.  I held my wreath poms-down and gave it a little shake to find any stragglers.

I like the simplicity of the poms on their own.  It’s so textural that you don’t really need any extra doo-dahs to add interest.

Buuuuuuut, just because it doesn’t need extra embellishments doesn’t mean I can’t add any, right?  How could I resist an opportunity to give the wreath a little plaid bow tie?

Have you tried a poms wreath before?  I am going to be tempted to run my hands over this one every time I use the front door!

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Thanks,  Jessica