When I blogged yesterday and said I was concern whether Shelia would like the hat I made her as part of her stitching Santa, I failed to tell you I had another concern I about it.
When I finished Shelia’s hat, I decided to knit a blue and white version as an extra Christmas present for Lovely Eldest.
Two days after I finished, I went to wrap it up, but the pom poms had vanished. Well not exactly vanished, more exploded and fallen off. Horrified I wondered why? I’ve never encountered an exploding pom pom before. Had I really been remiss enough not to tie all three tightly enough? Or maybe it was the crepe wool I’d used? And if it was the crepe wool, had the pom poms om Shelia’s hat exploded?
I made another pom pom, tied it really tight and bashed it about as much as I could. It remained intact, so I assumed I’d had a glass of red wine too many when I made lovely eldest’s. I made two more, attached all three to the hat and wrapped it up.
A nagging doubt about Shelia’s pom poms still nestled at the back of my mind, so I was relieved on Christmas day when Lovely Eldest unwrapped her hat to find the pom poms still intact. However yesterday lunch time she noticed one of the pom poms was missing…
Having tied all three pom poms super tight, I’m even more concerned the problem is the crepe yarn and even more concerned Shelia’s pom poms have exploded too 😦
Oh dear! If sheila reads this post and then finds her hat has exploding pompoms I’m sure she will laugh and find it very funny. It must be the yarn. It can be very slippery at times. ❤💛💜
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If she doesn’t read the post, I’ll direct her too it 🙂 I’m just worrying meantime that she’ll be concerned what to do about posting a ‘broken’ present as part of her secret Sanata gift.
Thanks for you vote that it’s the yarn not me 🙂
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I wonder whether ‘exploding pompoms’ are on the Royal Mail’s list of prohibited items.
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Shhhh! You’ll get me banned from sending parcels.
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I do love your comments Lynne!
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I never thought to booby-trap one of the presents in my stitching Santa parcel… perhaps that will be a ‘thing’ next year!
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Ha ha! Now there’s a plan 🙂
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Not sure we are taking this seriously enough!
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I have to say that I am intrigued about the behaviour of the yarn that it should do this.
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Me too and although I don’t want to blame the yarn, it is hard to make a pom pom wrong or not to tie it tightly enough – especially when you’re deliberately making sure it’s tight enough.
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I’ve never had a pompom explode either, so it is really strange
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One for Mulder and Scully 😉
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Opps! Sorry 😦
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Lol. I think having an expoding pompom hat would be pretty cool. A bit of a mystery though. Xx
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Thanks – but probably only of you saw them explode xx
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😁x
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xx
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how odd! I hope it is just the blue yarn doing that!
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Well Shelia says hers are intact and two of my second batch are still okay. Very odd.
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it is very odd. Glad Sheila’s are OK!
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Me too 🙂
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I think she will be more disappointed if they don’t explode now. I can just see them chez Sewchet going everywhere with sons and dogs covered in yarn. I am sure she will see the funny side, but how very odd, and what a disappointment for you cos they look so cute.
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Ha ha! Yes, I’m sure she would and at least I’m sure she knows how to make some more if they do.
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