Product Review: Clover Pompom Makers by Maddie
Posted in Product Reviews on Wednesday the 17th May 2017 by Vicki Ormerod
Hi there!
Let me introduce myself, within the sewing community I go
by the name Thimble Bee, but you can always call me Maddie. I run my own blog
dedicated to all things sewing, but I am also a third year Psychology student,
so finding time to fit in all the sewing I desire is hard (partly because all I
ever want to do is sew).
Anyway, the product I am reviewing for you today is these
lovely little Pompom Makers, now if you’re like me and love pompom’s, you’re
probably going to want to get some of these. But, first things first, let me
take you through my thoughts and feelings I had when I was using this product.
When Minerva Crafts sent these over to me, I opened the
parcel straight away and started examining. I was somewhat disappointed by what
I thought were the instructions on the back of the packet. They were brief, the
pictures didn’t really correspond with the words and I felt like they missed
out a few steps. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find full, detailed
instructions on how to use this product when I opened up the cardboard on the
back.

What I really did like about this product, even before I
used them, was their colours and the look, after all, it’s really all
about the look. The colours in each pack match each other and I think they will
be very cute if you had them out on display in your sewing space.
Then off I went, I pulled out my wool from my stash and
started winding, making sure to follow all instructions on the packet. And,
before I knew it I was surrounded by various size pompoms. The only thing I
found a little tricky was cutting the wool towards the end of the process,
particularly on the smaller pompom makers, as the wool is so tightly wound it’s
somewhat difficult to get your scissors up in there. But I do understand that
this is probably down to the nature of the process rather than the pompom
makers themselves.
One other thing I did find a little annoying on the two
smaller pompom makers (the purple and bright pink ones) was that the size isn’t
clearly written on them, and after a day or two, I couldn’t remember which one
was the bigger size and they are so close. But, after about 5 minutes of a weird
type of staring contest with these makers they lost and I finally found the
number indicating their size on one of the arms.
Overall, I really, really, enjoyed using this product, and
I look forward to using them again. Most of the problems I identified were soon
resolved either by taking them fully out of the packet or just by staring at
them for a long time.
But now, it’s on to the fun part, the tutorial!
For this tutorial, you will need your pompom makers, wool,
string of some kind and some kind of scissors (I found my little thread
scissors were very helpful)

This tutorial is for a pompom garland. I seriously
love mine and I personally think it looks FAB.U.LOUS on my wall.
This is a really simple tutorial, all you do is make the
pompom up until the point you would tie round some more wool in order to keep
it all together. Instead of using a small piece of thread, you use a long piece
of the string, tie it round like you would normally but just don’t cut it.

Now, when you go on to
make your next pompom instead of using another, different piece of thread like
you would normally, you just move along your string a tad and use that.
Now all you need to do is turn on your favourite T.V.
programme and continue to make all the pompoms along this one piece of string
until you're satisfied with the length.
Then you can have the pleasure of finding somewhere to hang
it, stepping back, and admiring your work.

I hope you enjoyed it, feel free to find me on wordpress or instagram.
Ciao for now, happy crafting!
xx
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