Hey kids! Today we are going to make a pom pom bow.
It is kind of windy occasionally, so I am going to hope to be able to keep things in
place. We are on kitty's area, so she might show
up in the video, since she is sitting there looking at me like "What are you doing?"
I am going to be making this bow, so I went ahead and got this ready.
This is probably about 12 inches worth of ribbon. I also have a rubbish bag nearby.
I bought a total of about a total of 7 yards of this acetate ribbon. Usually I have them
in different colors, but I did not have it in this specific blue that I wanted for some
reason, so I just went to the craft store and bought a couple of yards. You usually
use approximately five yards, which is kind of on the conservative side. I should have
bought more. Anyhow, how I do this is, I love big, fabulous bows, and I do not think I bought
enough of it, but what I normally do is I will make the bow approximately the size of
the package. So I measure across that way and use that as the top, bring it down and
bring it in to make one really large circle. Let me move the package onto the side.
Then, what I do is I get a piece of tape just so that it stays in place and does not get
lost and have to start again. Okay, so there we are with our big bow and
all my ribbon is down on the ground. So I just hold it right there and I just start
spinning it in my hands and we are going to continue until all five yards of the ribbon
is all caught up. Now kitty has decided that chasing the ribbon on the ground is a fun
thing to do. (to cat: Want to come up here baby?)
Alrighty, so there we go. I ended up right there, just shy of coming full circle. So
what I will do is bring it in together. There is the tape. Bring it in here. (to cat: Want
to come up here honey? Come on, you can be in the video)
You bring it in here, and usually what I used to do was I would just flip it in half like
this and hold it over my trash bag and I would cut a "V". I saw a different way online recently
where as if you leave it like this and make the V's here on the corner, you want to make
sure that you don't cut too much off and leave about half an inch or so right there. I just
leave the bag right under there so that the ribbon doesn't fly everywhere, because this
stuff will fly and relocate. Let's cut that off. Okay, so there is.. (to cat: Stay away
from the...you know what happened the last time you tried to tag my scissors, yeah, you
ended up crying and it made my heart hurt, so you stay away from that).
Okay, so now you have both ends cut there and there and bring them together right here
in the middle, okay? Here is another piece that we can cut. I always cut (to cat: Oh,
you like to tag it!) and what I do is with that 12 inch piece that I had before the website
that I saw suggested using a piece of wire. But I am just going to do what I normally
do. Acetate isn't really forgiving, so make sure that you get it right, of course now
everything is going crazily. But right there, see what I mean by it is not forgiving? It
shows where it has been crinkled. Let me get rid of this because it throws the
white balance off. Okay. So now this is what we are left with
right here. (to cat: Alright babe?) And I go in from the inside and I pull and twist
up. Then, you go from the opposite side. While I lick my finger. Twist, pull up. You continue
going from different sides each time. Twist and pull up. This one probably could have
used at least eight or nine yards just for the bow itself to make it as big and full
as I like to make it. So now I am regretting that I only got seven yards.
Okay, and then the last one you just kind of twist.
Then, this has has pulled, you know, buckled loose just from the pulling, but you go ahead
and you do it again from this side. (to cat: You like playing with it? You like playing
with that ribbon? Huh?) Pull it up, pull it up. I think the fuller it is, the prettier
it is. So I say if you have a big package like I have - that's what she said - um, just
get more yardage and go crazy. So there we go and a nice twist.
Now, since this is what we are left with and you can go ahead and just mess with it so
that it - see? it's not full enough. It's not as fully as I like it to be. But, this
is what dad is going to get this year. Then I just push it under, and turn it that way
(to cat: sorry baby) and just attach it and you can... I always like to just every once
in a while do different ones. I will leave an inverted V or I leave it cut on an angle.
Well, there you go. I am going to mess with this. You can also use the wire rimmed. Those
look really pretty, because you can really place them and bend them to the way that you
want them to be. But there you go. Simple, beautiful pom pom bow. Pull back a little
bit. I guess the outside light is really harsh. There you go.