Yarn Vase and Pom Poms

     A friend of mine for Christmas gave me a bottle of Sparkling Apple Cider, which I drank in one meal setting. Afterwards the family and I were just sitting around still talking and because I needed something to keep my hands busy I started to peel off the labels. Now that I had a naked bottle I suddenly wanted to keep it and find something to do with it. Well thanks to Pinterest I found something I wanted to do. 

     I found a pin on the vases first (here) then found the pom poms on top of sticks (here). The page for the pom poms didn't really explain how to do them, so then I did a pin search for then and found this jem (here). 

Supplies

• A Couple of Branches
• Branch Cutter
• Bottle
• Glue Gun
• Scissors
• X-acto knife
• Yarn

Wrapping the Bottle

     Now I didn't do exactly what the pinned blog said to do...I did it a bit different and it worked better for me. 

Step One

Glue the end of the yarn to the bottom of the bottle. I put a dot of hot glue on the bottle then laid the yarn down on top of it.

Step Two

Pulling the yarn tight I laid it down across another dot of glue about two or three fingers away from previous glue dot and repeated.

Step Three

Remove any excess glue with an Xacto Knife. (Be very careful, I almost cut myself twice because I got careless.)  

• I sometimes left the excess glue so that it created a space on the next row. Especially in the middle area of the bottle. At the bottom and when the top narrows, I had to take off most of the excess to keep there from being too many spaces. 
• I made a slice next to the edge of the yarn then scraped under the glue to get it off.

Step Four

As I got further up I was faster and the glue wasn't dry on the opposite side, so I had it hanging off the table as a wrapped.This made it so that any of the glue I left for spacing didn't smear and string. 

Once I was in the middle I tilted the bottle on the table and continued to wrap. Be prepared for your fingers to get a bit cramped...at least mine did because I was able to spin faster. 

When the bottle started to get smaller at the top I again changed how I held the bottle. I angled it again on the edge of the table. 

Step Five

     I couldn't wrap the yarn as tightly together at the top without gluing more often. Again, I started spacing the glue dots about a two finger distance. 

• I also used to X-acto Knife more at the top because I didn't need the glue to help with the spacing. 

Step Six

   At the top I put a dot of glue on the upper inside and tucked the yarn in the inside. 

Making the Pom-Pom

Step One

     I cut about a 6 inch piece of yarn.

Step Two

     I then wrapped the yarn around the fattest part of my fingers about 90 times. (The more wraps the thicker the Pom-Pom will be.)

Step Three

     I cut the yarn then carefully removed the wrap off my hand and laid it across the 6 inch piece of yarn I cut earlier. 

Step Four

    I used the 6 inch piece to tie around the middle of the wrap. 

Step Five
   
     Using the scissors, I cut the looped ends on both sides.

Step Six

    The Pom-Pom needed to be evened out a bit. I put a plastic bag down to catch all my clippings and clipped it until I felt it was round enough looking.

Put it All Together

Step One

      I cut the branches the size that I wanted then glued the Pom-Pom to the top of it. 

**I apologize for some of the blurry pictures, they were taken with my left hand**