Thread the string of beads through the hole in the bead clamp. Use a bead clamp to secure the threads to the jump rings. I liked the spaced out silver beads and they swing/hang very nicely with the knotted strands. I used the technique of knotting between each bead to string these beads. I did a few more stitches in a similar pattern to get mine to sit just right.īegin a new thread (or series of threads) to add your beads. Finish the thread when you are happy with how the top edge looks. The illustration shows two purple dots and two orange dots, sew the purple to purple spots together then the orange to orange. I pulled the top closed by sewing opposite sides of the tube together. To close the tops of the poms, I did a criss-cross stitching patten. I cut small pieces of fabric and filled the space so the pom poms hold their shape. The poms want to collapse in a bit so I grabbed some old unbleached cotton muslin to stuff them. If your scraps don’t have a good way of doing this, you can close the bottom in the same way I close the top of the pom in the steps below. In the illustration, this is shown in red and green. I used the pointy extension to make a bottom for the tube created. Pull the fur down/away from the cut edge for sewing to minimize how much fur gets caught An over edge whip stitch works for this situation. Sew the hide into a tube matching the long edges (in the illustration, these are the areas in blue). The colors show the parts that were sewn together to create a tube with a closed bottom. This is approximately the shape I was working with. The fur obscures the shape of the pieces so the illustration above shows the shape of the pieces when the fur is pulled back. These two pieces are the shoulders of the rabbit hide. One of these pieces was used as a template and the other was marked for where needs to be trimmed to match. If you are making 2 pom poms, having them close to the same size and shape will yield the best results. If you place the piece against a hard surface to cut the skin, it will trim and blunt cut the fur so avoid that if you want to maintain the look of the fur (faux or real). Use a straight edge blade to make a few light cuts to work through the thickness of the skin to cut it. Trim any scraps of skin from the back of the fur.Ĭut the fur into the shapes you want by holding the fur away from a flat/cutting surface.
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