Pom Necklaces

These necklaces were created as gifts for my cousins. I found a tutorial for them on the stay-at-home artist blog: it was a guest post by Rachel Obrien. The weren’t quite as easy as I though {NOT hard, I just suck at using the hot glue gun :P}, but very simple. I love how they turned out!

one of the sets…

To do this you will need a necklace with a flat round charm, scrap
fabric, & a hot glue gun. I just bought a pack of chains and a pack
of charms at JoAnn’s

{I used the white fabric in both sets}

The
tutorial I linked to above pretty much explains it all, the only place I
varied was cutting out my circles. The tutorial traced the charm 10
times, then cut out 10 circles {for 1 necklace}. After tracing 2
cirlces, I decided there was no way in heck I was tracing and cutting 60
circles! So I traced 1 circle per fabric, cut strips, then cut the
strips into squares using my original circle as a guide. I then stacked
the squares and pinned them to cut them all out at once using the circle
I traced as my guide. It went pretty quickly.

I discovered that the less the variation between the front and the
back of the fabric, the better the “pom” looked {in my opinion}

After you have your circles cut out, pinch them one at a time in the middle {I used a toothpick}, add hot glue to the twisted middle, and immediately place on charm: repeat. I worked my way out from the middle. {My pictures of this seem to have disappeared, but check out the link to the original post if what I’m saying is confusing.} I picked out the chain colors to coordinate with the fabric and each other so that the necklaces could be worn as a set or individually. Here they are displayed on my chair…

To gift them I printed off a Gift Box template from Tip Junkie on cardstock, wrapped them in tissue, and stuck ’em inside. I think they looked pretty cute.

I added my sticker gift tags before making them into boxes so they’d be easier to write on… so cute!
Kate Alyse

Kate Alyse

Kate is a proud mama to six amazing little sweeties {through birth + adoption} and wife to the best husband a girl could ask for! She considers herself blessed to be able to stay home with the kids, and is just starting to get into the world of homeschooling. In her "spare-time" she enjoys sharing many of the projects, stories, and gluten-free recipes that are a part of their every day lives!
  • Alright Martha Stewart, these are SO CUTE! I am so making these.

  • lol – you're funny! 😛 They were pretty fun to make! Enjoy 🙂 {be sure to let me see what you come up with!}

  • My best friend is going to love those. For her wedding, we made a bunch of pom poms like that and strung them together and hung them up. It looked awesome. I am sending her his blog post 🙂

    ~Lisha

  • ooo that sounds pretty 🙂 Must have taken you guys a while!

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