Decorate pillows and a place to put your feet. Tack pom-poms onto a plain pillow cover. Treat your tootsies to a soft landing spot by covering an old wood ottoman with a cloud of pom-poms.
Upgrade a soft pillow with pom-poms. They add charisma while helping this oversize accessory stay put. Yarn in a confetti-like mix adds rainbow color to handmade poms.
What You’ll Need
- 1 skein cream and multicolor yarn
- 3” (large) pom maker
- White waxed thread
- Fabric scissors
- Large-eye needle
- Pillow cover
See the basic steps to making pom-poms here.
Make four 3” size poms.
Tip: If you don’t have access to dip-dyed yarn and you don’t want to dip-dye it yourself, you can create this confetti look by just adding in a single loop around the crème color of the accent pops of color that you want. There’s no need to tie off when you switch colors, just wrap in a few at intervals and cut, and then keep wrapping with cream yarn.
Using a single strand of yard and a large-eye needle, sew a pom-pom to each corner of the pillowcase.
Sit back and relax! This quiet corner boasts a comfy chair and a fluffy footstool.
What You’ll Need
- 2-3 skeins white yarn (it helps to use a couple of slightly different white yarns to give the footstool dimension)
- 2- and 3-inch pom makers
- White waxed thread
- Fabric scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Flea-market stool (Find one that’s got sides to it for the poms to go on. Ours had a bonus lid to open up for storage.)
- 4 unfinished 6-inch wooden taper legs
- 4 hardware plates (optional)
Unscrew old legs of stool, attach new tapered legs (and new hardware plates if needed), leaving the wood natural.
Make pom-poms in two different sizes and at least two slightly different whites.
Attach the poms to top and sides of the piece using a hot glue gun, making sure to vary the sizes and colors all over for dimension.
Our footstool had a bonus lid to reveal storage for magazines and books inside!
Photography by Jay Wilde
Produced by Katie Leporte
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