Pom pom collages

Pom poms everywhere:

scraps of felt, too

Easy clean up!

Queen of the pompoms

Orange Pom-pom by Kathy Slade. It is 58 inches in diameter! If you ever come across this at a gallery, you will just have to control yourself and not run over and give it a squeeze.

Thanks to everyone who entered our yarn giveaway. We'll be drawing a name and announcing our winner later today (Friday).

Welcome Chirp Readers!

We are delighted to announce the release of a Windy mini-story for Chirp Magazine called In the Clouds. We had a lot of fun making white pom pom clouds for this story.


For Chirp readers, we wonder what you saw in the clouds. Email us at windyandfriends {at} gmail.com and tell us, or send in your drawings for our gallery. We'd love to see your cloud creatures.

If you would like to make your own pom pom cloud creatures, please see our pom pom character tutorial here and here.

How to Make a Pompom Character Part 2 (Hallowe'en Edition)

When we experimenting with pompom-making techniques for our workshop at Word on the Street last month, we came across this technique at Bella Dia which does not require a pompom maker. Although we didn't end up using the technique, we did have a happy accident while making it: if you don't cut through all the yarn at the end (see the link and this will make sense) you can make a squid, octopus...or a ghost! Perfect for Hallowe'en.

How to Make a Pom Pom Character Part 1

Thanks to our friend Roger for pointing out that vancouverisawesome did a little feature on Foggy for our Word on the Street appearance.

This has prompted us to finally put up our pom pom instructions.

We'll try to put up some photo instructions, but in the meantime, there is quite a good tutorial here.

We have some Hallowe'en pom pom ideas here (see part 2).

Pom Poms on the Street

Thanks to everyone who came out to make crafts with us at Word on the Street this Sunday. We made pom pom characters. Here is a gallery of some of the great pom pom characters from the workshop. We'll be putting up directions on how to make your own pom pom character next weekend as our rainy day project, so check back soon.

Thanks to Chirp magazine for hosting us. We're putting together a story for Chirp's spring issue right now and we'll be sure to post more details about that soon, too.

Pom Pom Dolls

We're making pom pom dolls of Foggy and Old Al from the Windy books today at Word on the Street at the Raise-a-Reader pavilion, 530 West Georgia Street in Vancouver this afternoon at 12:45. This is a workshop for children 4–8.

We'll be putting up pictures and instructions on Monday. In the meantime, here's our first Foggy and Al.

NB: We were going to do a workshop on vehicles originally. If you'd like to make some vehicles out of household objects, please see our earlier post for inspiration.