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Wednesday, March 04, 2015

52 Projects (Project 9)

A pom-pom wreath!

This is a project I've had in the works for a while. When I got done with my daughter's afghan, I had quite a bit of yarn left. One day I was looking down into the bag where the yarn was, and I got the idea to make a pom-pom wreath.

This hangs over my daughter's bookshelf in her room.
While I had the yarn and a straw wreath, I still had other supplies to buy.

Floral pins: $.93
White yarn (to wrap the wreath in) and pom-pom makers: $5.15
Birds: $2.53

I tried making pom-poms without the pom-pom makers and it was a big waste of yarn. I had a $5 off $10 coupon for Jo-Ann's so I used that for the white yarn and pom-pom makers. Making the pom-poms was fun!

floral pins and pom-pom makers
I didn't have enough yarn to completely cover the whole wreath in pom-poms, and I did not want to buy more yarn. So I bought the white yarn to wrap the wreath in so that the straw part was covered where there are no pom-poms.


The sweet little birds were not my original idea. When I thought of making a pom-pom wreath, I looked at pom-pom wreaths on Pinterest and came across this pretty wreath (unfortunately, I could not find the post with the original picture in it, so all I have is a Pinterest link).

Cost: $8.61
Running Cost: $19.42

3 comments:

  1. Although I haven't commented till now, I've enjoyed your weekly projects this year. This wreath is so cute! I bet your daughter is really enjoying it. It's amazing what you can find around the house to make things from - I'm trying to use my fabric stash for some of my sewing projects this year - and amazing how inexpensive some of the supplies can be, especially with coupons. I'm excited to see your final results at the end of the year!

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  2. Kathi Wheelet3/06/2015 9:28 PM

    I'm enjoying your blog Tammy! You have inspired me to dig into my stash of crafting supplies already on hand to see what I can come up with.

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  3. Thank you, Susan and Kathi!

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