Val Willcox writes: I used to be a very crafty sort, when my girls were little we made all sorts of things usually with me having to rein in my perfectionist streak and avoid shouting “colour INSIDE the lines…” as little fingers got to grips with pencils and crayons.
#knittingNCTtogether and #NCTyarns has demonstrated just how far away I am from those halcyon days as every attempt to teach myself crochet or reanimate ancient and basic knitting skills has resulted in (a) a lot more bad language (b) an increase in gin consumption and (c) chasing the dog around the house with a ball of wool in his mouth (evidence below):
He’s really not helping…
So the latest phase of the project fills me with joy – pom poms. Yes – pom poms! How many of us spent hours in our youth at groups or in each other’s houses diligently wrapping wool around cardboard discs and in a short time creating the pom pom:
These are really easy and incredibly satisfying to make – and if you can keep the finished product away from my dog, they have a multitude of uses from decorating bunting to bobble hats to yarnbombing the NCT AGM on October 13. Yes, you heard me – yarnbombing the AGM.
We need many, many pom poms… big ones, small ones – all in the NCT colour palette of light green, dark green, purple and white. We’ll be fastening them on to bunting so please leave a good long thread on them.
You can send your pom poms to Maggie Holman at NCT in London (30 Euston Square, London W3 6NH) or bring them with you if you can get to the venue (Central Methodist Hall, London) by 9am on the big day. If you really love your bunting you can take it away with you afterwards; otherwise we will pass it on to our fabulous Regional Volunteers so they can adorn various branch and regional events.
Need a reminder how to make a pom pom – here you go:
Knitting NCT Together 