Bring the needle down through the felt closer to the bottom and pull the stitch taught. Tie a double knot on the end and pull the needle up through the white felt mouth patch near the top. To make a little mouth for the leopard, separate 3 strands from the black embroidery floss and thread into a needle. For the ears, cut two U shapes from butterscotch felt and two slightly smaller ones from baby pink felt. A small black felt triangle with sit on top of the snout and mouth patch as the nose. Cut an upside-down U out of butterscotch felt for the nose/snout and a teardrop shape without the pointed tip from white felt for the leopard’s mouth patch. Time to make a face for this Amur leopard! Cut two circles from the atlantic blue felt for the eyes, with slightly smaller black circles for the pupils. As you trim, fluff up the pom pom and reposition the guide on different sizes to make sure you have a good sphere shape from all sides. Use your matching large pom pom guide to trim the excess yarn, forming a nice round pom pom. You’ll now have a large shaggy looking pom pom like this. Use sharp scissors to cut all the yarn loops. Make sure that these knots feel secure and very tight – a loose center may cause your pom pom to fall apart later. Bring both ends of the floss to the other side of the wrap (make sure to do this so that you don’t catch any loops of yarn along the sides) and then tie another tight surgeon’s knot, followed by another granny knot to secure. Use a finger to hold the surgeon’s knot tight in place and then tie a half granny knot on top to secure. Pull the embroidery floss knot as tightly as you can. Gently slide the yarn wrap off the end of the pom pom maker. Pull the knot together but don’t pull tight yet. Tie a surgeon’s knot but wrap the end through the loop twice. Bring the two end of the embroidery floss together and make sure that the horizontal threads are nice and centered on the yarn wrap. Bring that same end up and over the wrapped yarn and then back through that same U-shaped gap again. Thread one end through the U-shaped gap between the wrapped yarn and the pom pom maker. Once you’ve wrapped all your yarn, cut an 18″ piece of embroidery thread. Since you’ll be alternating between yarns, it can help to keep a tally on a scrap piece of paper to make sure you don’t lose count! Because both these yarns aren’t very heavy, you will want to have about 600-700 rotations in total. Trim the black yarn so that it’s no longer attached.Ĭontinue wrapping with the tumeric yellow yarn, adding in rotations of the black yarn as you go. Keep the tumeric yellow yarn attached for now, but wrap about 5 rotations of the black yarn on top of it. If you’ve never done this before, take a look at Purl Soho’s tutorial on how best to do this – it’s easy! Once you have a ball of yarn, wrap it around the large pink pom pom maker that comes in the set, about 20 rotations. Start by winding your skein of Linen Quill and Line Weight yarn into balls.
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