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Pompom Hedgehog

Make a cute hedgehog out of knitting yarn

Age
9+ yrs
Time
30 min
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What do you need?

Materials

  • White knitting yarn
  • Brown/grey knitting yarn
  • Black knitting yarn
  • 3 small beads / googly eyes

Tools

  • Fabric scissors
  • Glue gun

Steps

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1

Wind up the white yarn

  • Use one (or two fingers if you're a kid) to wind up 80 windings of white yarn.
  • Place the wound up yarn on a separate piece of yarn.
  • Tie a knot around the windings, as tightly as you can.
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2

Wind up the 2 other colors of yarn

  • Take both other colors and wind em around 3 fingers together. You need 80 windings.
  • Tie them together with a separate piece of yarn again.
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3

Tying the yarn balls together

  • place the white ball on top of the bigger colored ball
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4

Cut and trim the white yarn

  • Cut open the loops of the white yarn.
  • Trim the yarn till it looks like a nice slightly pointed head.
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5

Cut and trim the other yarn

  • Cut open the other yarn loops
  • Trim the yarn to form a nice even body.
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6

Cut a flat base

  • Cut off one side to create a nice flat base.
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7

make the legs

  • Double up some black yarn a couple of times.
  • Tie a knot in the doubled up part.
  • Fold at the knot.
  • Tightly wrap the remaining yarn around your strings, starting at the knot side.
  • Tie it off when you have enough length to function as a leg.
  • Trim off the excess yarn.
  • Repeat for a second leg.
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8

Glue the legs

  • Use some hotglue to glue the legs to the underside.
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9

Add eyes and nose

  • Glue or sew the eyes and nose in place.
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10

Done

  • You're done! Take yor hedgehog out for a walk.