Pom-pom maker

A tool for helping with making pom-poms. Made them in 3 different sizes for now, the outer diameter of the jig roughly corresponds with the size of the pom-pom you'll make.

It's modeled off a design I used when younger but I have long since lost that tool, so I remodeled it for 3D printing!

I might make a even bigger on in the future. Re-scaling the model should also work. It needs a quite thick yarn or a lot of windings to make bigger ones though.

Print settings

I printed it laying down, 4 pieces at a time

20% infill

Only support on the blue marked part

The 30 mm one is tiny and would be best to do with a nozzle smaller than 0,4, but it works. Its not critical.

How to use

You need 4 copies of a piece to make a pom-pom. 

1. Take 2 pieces, place them back-to-back and start winding your selected yarn around the arc. The more you wind and what yarn you've chosen will affect how dense your pom-pom will be. Repeat with the other two pieces.

2. When you're done winding, loosely tie of and cut the yarn.

3. Then slide the pieces together so that they form a circle

4. Now cut the yarn along the groove all the way around the outside edge. I use a utility knife, but scissors should work if you don't wind too tightly.

5. Take another piece of yarn or string that you want to use to hang or attach your pom-pom to things, and wrap it in the groove around the yarn and tie it together.

6. Remove the jig from the pom-pom and trim the pom pom to your liking

7. Done!

Add some flair!

Use yarns of different colour in the same pom-pom to add some more style. For example if you wind two yarns at the same time it gets spotted. Or wind it in sections or halves to get a pattern.