
Heart-Pompom and other Valentine's Day Ideas
Brenda K.B. AndersonDescription
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Hi guys, welcome to our live event. Are you guys excited for Valentine's Day? Woo. Um, so I have some ideas for you guys involving these heart pom-poms. I'm going to show you how to make the heart pom pom, and then I'm going to kind of show you some of the other ideas that I had ways that you can use them, besides the obvious, right?
This would be the obvious, at least to me, this is the obvious, um, is to take a hat and then add a pom-pom to the top. I just thought it was super cute to have this ridiculously oversized pom-pom on the top of this little baby hat. It's for some reason I just love doing that for baby hats, um, but I am going to be showing you how to make the pom pom, how to get that little heart shape in there, um, and then different ways to think about incorporating like when you're tying off the pom pom, you should be thinking about if you need to add anything to that um based on how you want to attach the pom pom to something, and we'll get into that a little more later. That probably didn't make any sense, but, um, just be thinking about that in your, in your minds while you're watching this. OK, so, um, yes, this is a live event, so please say hello if you like.
Tell me where you are crafting from. Tell me if you are working on any Valentine's Day presents for anybody, for yourself, maybe, maybe you just prefer the chocolate kind, um, but regardless, this is a fun craft project to work on. And it's great because you can use up scraps of stuff that you already have. You don't have to make them in the traditional red, white, pink, you know, color schemes. Um, you can make it however you like to.
All right, so I love making pom poms. It's no secret. I've talked about this before. Um, I, I really love, really, really love making pom poms, um. And uh and you'll see the magic of this pom pom is just extra because when you cut it open, there's always that moment of like oh it's turning into a beautiful pom pom but this time you have a heart inside of it and it's just like an extra, I mean it feels like a surprise even though you're the one who put it there shouldn't be a surprise but it still is really cool.
OK, so you're gonna need a pom pom maker for this. I'm using the Clover brand because this is my absolute favorite. It just feels really sturdy and easy to use, so that's why I'm using this kind. You can use other kinds if you, uh, you know, if you have a different kind, that's totally fine. Um.
There is a little bit of extra thinking going on when you're placing the yarn for this for the first half of the pom pom. Um, so it's good to have a pom pom maker that you're familiar with or something that's at least easy to use, so you don't have to be thinking so much about the actual wrapping of the pom pom, and you can just um concentrate a little bit more on where where you're putting the color, which I'll explain to you. OK. So, to start this out, I'm gonna pull open my pom pom maker. So I've got half of it here.
The other half is tucked away here. So I'm going to leave that closed for now. We're just going to concentrate on the first half. So, I'm going to make a pom pom. That's the same color scheme as this version here.
So, the, the heart is going to be that sort of pinkish red color, and then we're going to do that sort of bluish gray background color as well. So we're gonna start out with the color that you want the heart to be. And Take a look at your pompa maker. If there are little lines on it, dividing it up, that is very helpful, but I, I will also just kind of show you. Um, some different points to be looking at.
So, my pawpaw maker has is divided into 6 sections per side. So 12345, and 6. And I normally when I'm making a heart, I'm really concentrating on the thirds of this. So sections, so here's 1 and 2. I'm thinking about this, and then I'm thinking about this.
OK, so these two lines right here. Those are dividing this half of the pom-pom maker into 3rds. So there's 1/3, 2/3, 3/3, if that makes sense. So that's how I'm gonna be kind of talking about this as I'm wrapping it. Um, and I am going to be, if, if this is something where you want to try and put a heart shape on both sides of your pom pom, then you need to be sure which side is up, otherwise you're gonna get a heart facing up, and then when you turn your pom pom around your heart might be facing down.
So I would not recommend that for the first time that you do this. Just put a heart on the front of your pom pom, and then you can decide like if you want to do that. If you want to try to put a heart on both sides of the pom pom, like if you, for example, this pom pom just has a heart on one side, there's nothing on the back, um, and that to me that's just fine, but I, I just thought there I was, I'm just anticipating there might be a question about that later. Um, so if you are planning on putting a heart on both sides, you need to know which side is up. So you're going to need to mark that or keep track of that in your mind somehow.
Um, I'm not going to do that because I'm just putting a heart on one side of my pom-pom just to keep it simple. OK, so we're actually going to start out with the background color for a minute here, and I'm going to be wrapping my yarn around at that 3rd. Remember how we talked about the 3rds. So we're gonna wrap starting at this 3rd here. We're gonna wrap it a couple times till we know this is gonna stay.
Here we go, and I'm gonna be wrapping. Just this 3rd first. The 3rd first. Just this section of it, the 1st 3rd of, of this half of the pom pom. How's that for a little math?
Don't worry, this doesn't involve math. This involves eyeballing, OK? So we're looking at just this 3rd here. And what I want to do, if I'm looking at it this way, what I wanna do is I want to build up some thickness. From this point upward, OK, so see how my crochet hook is kind of angling up to the side.
Instead of it being flat like this, I want to build up some thickness up here. So, I'm going to start close to, I'm gonna call this the bottom of where I'm wrapping. See how I'm, I'm just a little above the edge of where I've already wrapped, and then I'm going to go. Towards this side. And back down, but not quite as far down as we went before.
And we're gonna sort of work our way back down. But again, not quite as far as, like, every time we wrap. Downward meaning in this direction we're gonna stop a little bit before. We did last time. So I'll show you what the side of this looks like in just a second.
OK. So if you take a look at this, what's happening here is now we have this angle, see it from the side of my hook here, it's angling, it's getting wider up here and over here. OK, so we have it kind of angling as we go from this point, which is pretty narrow, and then we're adding more wraps as we go further up. OK? And then we're going to stop.
At this point, just kind of hang on to that yarn for a minute. And then we're going to start with the red. Let me get the edge of my. OK. So, now we're going to be concentrating on this middle third here.
So, this is, you know, the section between here and up to here. So, I'll just start wrapping. And we're gonna go all the way over to, there's a notch right there, but this is just imagine, here's a 3rd, sorry, here's a 3rd, here's the 3rd, and here's the final 3rd, which we're not working on quite yet. OK. So now we have like one layer here.
And I'm gonna wrap. Back up in this direction. And now we've gotten to the point where the gray starts, but we want to overlap the gray with the red. So we're going to go up a little ways, maybe about right here, not quite to the halfway point along this 3rd. But we are extending, see how I'm wrapping over the gray.
We're kind of wrapping up to that point where it gets nice and thick, where the gray gets nice and thick. All right, now we're just gonna fill this in. But the goal here with the red is, again, we want it to be narrow down here and be thicker up here. So, I'm just wrapping and this time when I come closer to the bottom, bottom meaning this side, I'm not gonna go all the way to where I had stopped before. I'll stop just a little before and work my way back up toward that gray.
And working back downward, stopping a little, even now a little sooner than I did last time. So every time we kind of wrap back down here, Before it was down here, then we stopped about here, now we're stopping about here. And now I'm going to be concentrating most of my wrapping. Kinda up in this area. This is where I want the most of the thickness to be the most of the thickness.
I want it to be the thickest up there, is what I'm trying to say. OK. Now, I want to show you what's happening if we, when we look at the side. So, see how it's narrowest down here. It's narrower and it kind of comes out to the side, and then the the thickest part is right through here.
And up even a little bit into this as well. But it's not the thickest part is right here. That's the thickest part that makes sense. OK, so that's about what that should look like. And I know this seems like the first time you do this, you're gonna be like, is this even gonna work?
This does not seem like it's gonna work, but it's, it does. And once you, you know, it may take you once or twice. To like fully understand what's happening while you're doing it, but it'll make more sense at the first couple, after the first couple times that you make these pom poms and cut them open and see what's happening. OK, now is the easy part. We're just going to fill in everything with the gray, OK?
So, we're gonna fill in that bottom third that we've neglected thus far. And we're gonna continue working up here. We're gonna go over all of the red. We're just going over everything at this point. Lots of wrapping here.
And it can even add a little more to the top because it's a little flat. But basically, we're just you know, completing this side, filling it in as best as we can. With that kind of grayish color or the background color. So I find that making pom poms, it helps if you have a squishy yarn, so you can tie that knot really tight. It's not as, it's pretty hard to do this with a cotton because it's just this is not very lofty, so, um.
I usually recommend doing, you know, doing this with an acrylic or um wool, something that's squishy. OK, so that seems pretty good. We've filled in that side of it. I'm gonna cut this end off, and we're gonna tuck that away into our pom pom maker for now, and now we're gonna open up the other side. And this side, so this is what I meant, OK.
This is what I meant when you have to know which side is up if you're going to add a heart to the other side. So, this is the top of our heart. It's close to the hinge where this is attached. So, You need this to be the top of your pom-pom. So when you've closed this, this would be the top of your heart here.
So if you wanted to make another heart shape on the back, you need to think about this as being the top of your heart. So this is where you put that little wedge where you first start. This is the gray part, and then this is the red part, and then you fill in here and fill in everything. Now, if you're like, you lost me there, don't worry about it. Just make a heart on one side of your pom pom.
Um, and then you can get into that more advanced two heart to heart pom pom later, um, if you're excited about that. OK, so this side, we're just filling it in with whatever background color. That's all we're doing. I remember the first time I used one of these pom pom makers, I was like. What?
I don't understand what's happening, and then I cut it open and I was just like. It was just so fun to see it's sprawling open once you cut it open with the scissors. I mean, that's, that's fun to do, even, even if you do it like the cardboard method or other methods, but for some reason this pom pom maker just made it easier to make a very, um, full and fluffy pom pom, and it was just very exciting. Oh, it looks like we got a bunch of comments here. Hello to Barbara and Georgia from San Antonio and Jill saying hi from South Carolina.
Hi, Jill. We've got a couple more hellos and hello from Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. Excited to be here. I'm glad you're here, Ida. Lots of hellos.
So hello from Indiana, from Cindy, and Wendy is saying hello, tuning in from Chile, Connecticut. And Dawn is here. Hello all you beautiful people. Hello Dan. A Cindy's here.
Yes, she says this is a cheery idea to take pom poms to a new level. And hello from Central Central Pennsylvania. Oh, Don is making Amagaroies for her grands, cute. That's awesome. OK.
How did I do? I wasn't even looking at this side. Pretty good. I have one kind of random loop there, but that's OK, we'll cut that off. So that's what happens when you're reading the comments and you should be wrapping your pom-pom.
OK, so one thing I noticed about making these heart pom poms is that it helps to keep your heart in like a neat and tidy shape if your pom pom is pretty full. So, you know, sometimes we make pom poms and we don't mind them being kind of wispy or you know, extra fluffy without, you know, without as much. Like a little more air space around each piece of yarn, if that makes sense, not quite as dense, but I found that when I was making these that the heart. Just had a neater, tidier shape and would wanna kind of like the the pieces of the yarn would stay in the right place a little better if I made them fairly full, fairly um. Dense, I guess.
So that's something to keep in mind, something to think about. All right, so we wrapped that side. There we go. Now we're ready to cut our piece open. Before I do that, I'm going to get my strand for tying ready, and I really like to use embroidery floss to tie my pom-poms.
Um, you can certainly use your yarn. I just find that the yarn tends to be, it tends to break sooner than the um. Embroidery floss wood. This is a very, very tough thing to tie your pom pom with, so that's why I use embroidery floss. Um, and then I use that to sew it to my hand usually.
Just sometimes it just depends on what I have laying around and how strong the yarn is that I'm using, etc. etc. You don't have to use embroidery floss, but that's just, you know, if sometimes when you're tying your pom pom, if your yarn breaks when you're doing it, it is. Very frustrating. So, um, I like to avoid that.
OK, so here is the boring side. I think this is the boring side. Yep, here's the boring side. But it's still fun, right? See that pop open?
And here's the exciting side. Here comes. OK, so that's what it looks like so far. We just need to tie it up and then kind of do a little haircut and a little tidying. But before I take this apart, I want to just kind of, because I know it's hard to imagine when you're wrapping it, like, maybe it made no sense to you when I was like, oh, add a little more here.
Should be thicker there. It's kind of like you just have to do it to fully understand, but before I tie this off, I just want to point out when we first wrapped that gray, when we first started on our pom pom, what we were doing was we were wrapping this section right in here because we wanted that part of gray to come down and get a little wider. See here, and then we added some more gray there. Then when we wrapped the red, we started out and we wanted it to angle like this. And that's why, because we wanted our heart to angle out and be the thickest through here, if that makes sense.
And then we extended it up onto the gray a little bit, so you could see that, you know, that little arrow of gray coming down into the top of the heart, if that makes sense. So just looking at that, it might help you when you're wrapping to be able to kind of visualize things. OK. So you can use 2 strands or one, doesn't matter. I'm going to be sewing this onto probably a hat later, so I want the string to be tied down here at the bottom because I want, I want it, I'm probably going to sew it to the top of a hat like this, so I want the strings here on my heart when I'm done.
Um. So I'm going to bring my. Bring my embroidery floss through. And Tie this as tight as I can. And bring it back up through the other way.
So I like, I like to wrap this around a couple of times. And sort of tie tie it a little bit as I'm going to just sort of help. All right, and now back to the bottom of the heart. So this is the tip of the heart. This is where I really want my string to be, you know, to end up at the end here.
So, I'm going to tie this into a nice knot at the bottom. OK, then I want to be careful not to cut that part. And then now here's the big reveal where we take the the bits apart. I like to do these one side at a time cause it just seems like it. Doesn't pull out.
Here we go. Doesn't pull it's, it's just not as hard to do, so I pull them out one at a time. And same for the back side here. And then I can pull the sides out. And so, other pom pom makers will work differently, but you'll just have to disassemble.
And you can see it's a little bit of a shaggy mess here. This is what they look like when they first come out. They're not gonna be perfect, but when you start cutting, trimming it down, it'll start looking a lot less shaggy. It'll look better. OK, so we're gonna give a little haircut here.
Is this anybody else's favorite part of making a pom pom? I don't know why I like this part so much, you guys. This is relaxing. And you know, maybe part of me just likes making a huge mess, I don't know. So if you're finding that your heart shape is looking a little shaggy, then don't give up on it until you've given it a good trim because sometimes when you trim it down further, it looks a little bit more compact.
It gets the pieces kind of in the right spot. I don't know if you guys have watched very many craftsy lies, but my friend Emily Stefan oftentimes does projects involving pom pom. She is another pom-pom lover just like me. And I have been thinking about her during this process because she loves pom-poms so much and she's often wearing, even if she's not talking about pom poms, she's usually wearing pom poms as earrings. I'm gonna show you my version of pom pom earrings in just a minute here, but it was definitely Emily inspired.
All right. I'll trim just a little more and then I'm just gonna have to make myself stop, even though it's going to be hard. But I'm sure you guys can imagine how trimming just a little more. Can help your shape, uh, your pom pom take shape just a little more. And sometimes you may find like I've got this random strand down here.
You might just be, you know, sometimes things kind of get moved when you are tying your pom pom. But you can kind of dig in there with a yarn needle or a parrot, um. Little pair of tweezers or something like that to kind of pull it into the right spot. And some of this is just. You know, haircut from the other color which you have to kind of dust off when you're done giving it a haircut, so you don't have all those extra color contamination happening here.
Anyway, so you guys get the idea. So how, how adorable is that? Um, super cute. So I, when I was working on this, I thought, oh, well, what, what could we do with pom poms besides sew them onto hats? And I happen to have these little, um, let me move this out of the way here.
These little clasps. This is like a bag charm that I made. So I had, I had a little section of these little, I have, I have lots of little clips and clasps and things like that, other kinds of hardware. And so I thought it would be kind of fun to just make like a little bag charm. So you can just have a little bit of this would actually look really cute in a chain.
That's what I actually really wanted is a very short chain connecting it to the inside of the pom pom, but I didn't have that, so I did a little tiny bit of a crochet chain here to connect it to my clip, and I want to show you how I did that. Um, OK, so let's see. I've got, here's my hardware. And then I just grabbed a chunk of the yarn that I used for the pom pom. And made it extra long.
OK, I'm doubling it as well, just for sturdiness here. So I've got, it's probably about 2 yards long and folded in half. I'm gonna cut that off. Then I'm gonna start at the midpoint. OK, so it's folded, 2 strands, and I'm going to make a slipknot right in the middle here.
Like that. And then I just started crocheting around. Like, just bringing this through, actually here. Hold on a second. I'm gonna put this on my crochet hook, grab that little loop, pull it through.
And then just make a very short chain. So this is very Um, tight, and I'm doing this on purpose. You can get a larger hook. This is probably is a little too small for four strands of of yarn here, but. It's the hook I have handy.
So I'm just gonna do like maybe 3 chains. To make those nice and tight, and then I'm gonna grab. All those strands and pull through. And if you are not a crocheter, that's fine. You can just tie it on and do like a little short braid or something like that.
You just need a little bit of length. Between your your clip and these yarn strands. OK? So we're gonna be using these yarn strands to tie up our pom pom. OK?
So we've just kind of Basically added that clip on ahead of time. OK, I've already pre-wrapped this because I didn't think you needed to see that again. Um, here's the boring side. And here's the fun side. I don't know if it's upside down or not because I wrapped this last night.
We'll find out. It's always such a fun surprise. Like who put that heart in there? Oh, that was me. OK.
All right. So there it is. There's a cute little hard beginning. Um, and then we want to make sure that this clip is on the top of our pom-pom. We don't want to be, have our heart hanging upside down, right?
That would, that sounds sad. So I'm going to bring this right up in here. Bring this to the bottom. I'm very loosely just holding this in the groove right now until I actually start to tie this. And now I'm gonna tie it really tight.
And this is an acrylic yarn. It's a very sturdy. Oops, I, I kind of get my, there we go, my pom pom mechanism was in the way. It needed to go in between those two pieces and it wasn't doing that, but now I think it's OK. All right, so tie that nice and tight.
And then bring it back up here to the top, and I'm gonna tie this one more time. Cause I do not want this opening up, that would be so sad. OK. And I want more knot. OK, that should be good, except that I can't stop.
I'm gonna tie one more time. I'm so paranoid about my pom-poms not staying. OK. So now, we can open this up. Here we go.
And pull it apart. Like that, you can see this pom poms are looking a little shaggy, but that's OK. Once we trim that up, the heart is gonna be. Much cuter. There we get that.
And once we cut this down here, I know it's really shaggy right now, but you can see what we did was we. Attached that little tiny chain and use that to tie up our pom pom. that way this is already anchored and it's like practically finished. It just needs its cute little haircut and then it's ready to go. So I wanted to show you one more option here.
Let me just Double check and see if I'm missing anything here. Oh, we've got a hello from Portugal. Hello. Bookkeeper, great to see you in here. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you, Bookkeeper 73, and Twyla is here. Good morning from San Francisco Bay Area. Good morning. Hi, Twyla. And Connie says hello from Harbor Springs, Michigan and Clara from Northwestern Florida.
Hi guys. And Eddie from Toronto, Canada, and um. See what we've got. Oh, it's so cool already. Awesome.
It's a nice big puff, yeah, it is fun. It's fun to see when you cut it open and it splays out, it's like the best. OK. Um, Oh, I never get the round shape to be round. Oh, Twilight does not like that part.
That is the part that I love the most is trimming and trimming and trimming. I don't know why I get really obsessive about that. OK. Um, a Twila thing you could add a string of floss to the yarn before putting on the ring. To make it stronger.
Hold on, let me think about that. String of floss to the yarn. Oh, I see. OK, so you're holding the floss along with your yarn to make it stronger, right? Is that what you're saying?
That's a really good tip. Because then you get the color of the yarn that you're using, or also for this, maybe you're talking specifically about this one, to add a little floss in there to make that very strong, and that's a really good idea. See, Wolfpack is saying my pom poms always turn out like when I try to cut my own kid's hair. Uh, awesome. I'm sure that's what you meant.
They turn out fabulous. OK. So let me talk about my next little idea, by little, I mean, teeny tiny. So I'm making these little cute pom pom earrings for not for Emily Stephan, which is who I should be making them for, except she already probably has a million, so she probably doesn't really need them. But I'm making these for my niece.
She really loves pom pom earrings, and I wanted to surprise her with these cute little heart ones. So. Um, so really the only thing to think about when you're doing this, so I just use these, the tiniest pom pom maker. Let me see, where did I put that? OK.
So here's my little pom pom maker. It's already all done up in exactly, you know, same way that I've been showing you. And then, um, I made, I took apart. A little, let me see where did the hardware go. Here it is.
OK. So I have a little fish hook earring. And I attached it to a chain that I took apart from like uh a a purse chain that I had, so I knew it'd be really nice and strong, um, but lightweight. And then I wanted to attach it to the pom pom with this jump ring. Now, I feel like the very sturdiest way that you could do this is if you had, and I'm not sure what this is.
What these rings are called when they're closed, like there's no joint in it. If you had a ring like that, you could slide that onto your strand of yarn first before you tie off your pom pom, and that would be like the sturdiest because your yarn wouldn't be able to go through in between the cracks of a jump ring, which is what I have here. I, this, it looks round. I mean, it looks like a complete circle, but it has a little crack in it, you know, it's like. Um, the kind of jump ring that you split open and then add things into or whatever.
So that's what I'm gonna be using because that's what I had and it actually is is working fine for this earring. Um, I tested it out and it's working just fine, but in a perfect world, if, if I was buying these um for this project, I would buy a ring that is completely connected and then I would thread the ring onto the yarn first and then, you know. And then wrap and tie and everything like that and then add this to the jump ring or uh sorry, open up the last link on my chain here and attach it to the ring, if that makes sense. So, I'm gonna do something similar to that, but this actually opens, so I'm gonna add this later, which is what um what I did for the other earrings. So here's the boring side.
And here's the fun side. I'll see how much this matches the first one cause I did not do them in the same evening. It'd be better if you did your pom poms one right after the other, then you would know exactly how thick you're making that heart, um, and have exactly the same technique. I did not do that, so we will see what we get here when we open this up, but Hopefully it'll be similar enough that it'll look like a pair. That looks pretty good.
OK. I'm just gonna grab. Some strand of this. This is actually surprisingly strong. This is an acrylic with some kind of like monofilament in it or something.
It's a #2 yarn. I would probably suggest doing um The embroidery floss once again here instead of this, but this is what I have that matches. It's gonna be fine. Um, and I am going to leave that off for now, but if you had a completely closed ring, you could slide it on right away. And I'm going to go ahead and just.
Tie this thing up. Making my little tie. Um bottom. And then tying it on the top. Now let's try it one more time here.
OK. OK. So I, you could, you could, you know, even if your jumping is closed, you could. Um, or sorry, if you jump ring splits, if it's a split jump ring, I, I'm not sure if I'm using the correct terminology because I'm not a jeweler, but you could open that up and attach it to the end of here. And then close it up and slide it onto your strands.
Um, but I was worried that I wouldn't get it on quite correctly and that it would, when it was hanging from the earring that the heart would spin around backwards. So that's why I'm doing it this way. It might seem kind of like, why is she, why isn't she just putting that on there? Um. It's just mostly because I'm worried that I'm gonna end up with the heart uh heart facing backwards.
Here we go. OK, and I apologize that this is so dark. I'm sure you guys cannot see this, but what I'm doing is I'm opening up. The um Kind of like the hairs on the top of the pom-poms, so I can see where I tied those strands and I went around a few times, so it's a nice, uh. You know, I can, I can actually see those strands that I use to tie.
Piece together, let's see, where is my opening. There it is. OK, so I, I just tilted them away from each other. When you're using jump rings like this, don't ever spread them apart from each other because it's very hard to get them to touch, but if you twist them like that, then you can twist them back together and it's a lot easier. OK.
I'm just pushing that into those strands and grabbing those strands that I use to tie. All right, where did the end go? Oh, there it is. OK. I see it.
I don't know if you guys can see it, but the end popped out, and now I'm going to add The earring onto there and this might take a couple of tries because. I just want it to be facing the correct way. All right. OK. Did it work?
Yes, it worked pretty good. Now I know this looks like a disaster, right? This does not look very pretty. Um, but the other one looked like this too. They both just needed a little bit of coaxing to become the heart that they are, and a mega haircut because this is just such a little tiny, such a little tiny pom pom that when you wrap that many strands around it, it just gets very distorted.
So we're gonna do that. We're gonna give it a little bit of a haircut. So if you guys have other ideas on how you could use these pom-poms. Um, drop those in the comments. I'd be very curious to see what you guys think.
I think I would make a cute little um. Like a hair accessory too for a little kid. You could put it on a little elastic tie. Oops, I cut that a little short there. Sometimes you have to be a little patient and kind of coax those little.
Hairs into the right spot for these little tiny pom poms here. Well, for any size pom pom. All right. So, I don't know if you guys saw this last year, but I did a Galantine's Day Beanie project with Emily Stephen, speaking of Emily Stephan again. I, um, I did a project with her last year around Valentine's Day, kind of a Galantine's Day theme, and in the background, you guys can see that I made this, um, like a big garland out of these heart pom poms and a bunch of tassels and like a big, I think I did like a crochet chain to kind of hook everything together.
Um, but that during that live event, actually it was a two part series and I don't remember which live event it happened during, but it was during that Valentine's Day thing that somebody asked me how to make the heart pom poms that were in the background, um, so that's where this live event came about and I, I'm sorry that it took me a whole year to get this done. Um, I meant to do it earlier, but then, you know. I like to do things seasonally and the time had passed and I thought, OK, I'll just do it next year for Valentine's Day cause it had already been months since then, um. But here we are. So I do really, uh, I love of your suggestions when you guys have suggestions for future projects or you wanna learn something.
I love that when you guys put that in the comments, um, gives me lots of ideas. OK, so that's looking better. I think it will continue to improve a little more um if I trimmed it just a little bit more, but it's looking pretty good. Yeah, it definitely looks a little bigger than this one, but that's OK. I think when I trim it down a little bit, it'll help, actually.
And then we'll have these adorable little heart-shaped, heart-shaped pom-poms for Valentine's Day, yay. All right, let me just check in here. Oh, a closed jump ring. OK, so Ida's saying, I think she's saying that a closed jump ring is what it's called. OK.
Oh, we have a hello from Milan. Cool. Hello from Pennsburgh, Pennsylvania. And hi, it's River from Newport, Oregon. Hi River.
Thanks you guys for saying hi and popping in here. I really appreciate that. OK, so I hope I've given you guys some ideas for Valentine's Day. If you guys are looking for more ideas though for like or like free patterns like free crochet patterns and that sort of thing, a little bit more Valentine's Day information, I did do a blog post recently um on the Creative Crochet Corner website. So if you go to, if you go to the website and you click on resources.
Then you could click on articles. You can see all of the blog posts and articles that I have written over the years, and there's lots of really good information in there. The most recent one was, you know, just some ideas on and free patterns for things that you can use from the website to make Valentine's Day gifts. So this was one of the things that You'll see this in the picture. I used the knotted baby hat, which was also a suggestion for one of our viewers to make this hat pattern.
So I use this, and then I use this tiny little heart pattern that was from a previous Valentine's Day blog post on how to make a Valentine's Day card with these cute little crocheted hearts on it. And I combined them together to make a super cute little Valentine's Day hat. But there's lots of other ideas in there, um, if you guys want to check that out. Like I said, it's on the Creative Crochet Corner website. Go to resources, go to articles, and then you can, um, see all of, there's lots and lots of links in there for free patterns and and tutorials and that sort of thing.
So, all right, thank you guys so much for joining me. I'm glad that you guys are here. I hope you guys have a great Valentine's Day and Valentine's Day, and happy pompa making everyone. Bye.
Cute!