div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whR5WfW550I/Tn7aSBmFLsI/AAAAAAAAEfw/pJQ947MMV8E/s1600/Slide1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"br //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnzFEFAxL0g/ToxIcW5qWUI/AAAAAAAAEi8/Bj52HC3XoE4/s1600/Slide1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnzFEFAxL0g/ToxIcW5qWUI/AAAAAAAAEi8/Bj52HC3XoE4/s640/Slide1.png" width="640px" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"I may be a little late on this bandwagon, but better late than never right? Thea href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2010RTW-SRYKIEL" Sonia Rykiel AW10/a collection featured gorgeous pompom headbands which very much inspired me to DIY, but I never got around to it at the time. Recently I saw large clover pom pom makers for sale and decided it was time to get amongst it. I wore the headband to the a href="/2011/10/asos-bloggers-tea-party-win-250-asos.html"Asos Tea Party /aI went to recentl (a href="http://www.asos.com/20113009Blogger/Cat/pgehtml.aspx?cid=14295"have you voted?/a), and it was so fun to wear!/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"You can of course use two doughnut shaped pieces of cardboard to make the pom poms (a href="http://www.outoforderdesign.com/2010/11/diy-pom-headband.html"as seen here/a) but that takes a while and the clover makers aren't too expensive. They turn a two hour job into a 5 minute job so aren't a bad investment if you plan on making a few - you can buy them a href="http://www.amazon.com/Clover-Large-Pom-Maker/dp/B000WV1XGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;qid=1317827143amp;sr=8-1"here/a or in craft stores./divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whR5WfW550I/Tn7aSBmFLsI/AAAAAAAAEfw/pJQ947MMV8E/s1600/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="480px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whR5WfW550I/Tn7aSBmFLsI/AAAAAAAAEfw/pJQ947MMV8E/s640/Slide1.png" width="640px" //a/divbr /bYou need:/bbr /A large a href="http://www.amazon.com/Clover-Large-Pom-Maker/dp/B000WV1XGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;qid=1317827143amp;sr=8-1"clover pom pom maker/a - get the biggest you can findbr /Black woolbr /Scissorsbr /A headband - pick a sturdy onebr /br /bHow to:/bbr /- Open half of the clover maker and wrap it fully with wool.br /- Do the same to the other half.br /- Close and secure the pom pom maker. br /- Use scissors to cut the wool through the middle all the way around the clover maker.br /- Pass wool through the clover maker to secure the pom pom.br /- Open the pom pom maker to release the pom pom.br /- Trim the pom pom of any loose strings and to the size you want it.br /- Secure the pom pom to the headband, I tied mine using wool. br /br /br /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DSpJ1eUEbLY/ToskPxmpXWI/AAAAAAAAEik/wI2STouoPto/s1600/Slide1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DSpJ1eUEbLY/ToskPxmpXWI/AAAAAAAAEik/wI2STouoPto/s1600/Slide1.png" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divbr /div style="text-align: center;"Voila!nbsp;/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dfCVjwRUR4E/Tox1fMvnYsI/AAAAAAAAEjc/sR9Ba-qeE0Y/s1600/Slide1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dfCVjwRUR4E/Tox1fMvnYsI/AAAAAAAAEjc/sR9Ba-qeE0Y/s640/Slide1.png" width="640px" //a/divdiv style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"/divdiv style="text-align: center;"emOn a side note, I recently had the pleasurenbsp;playing dress ups innbsp;the /ema href="http://www.ascothats.blogspot.com/"emAscot Hats/em/aemnbsp;millinery workshop - owned by my best friend's mum. I was lusting over this /ema href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=222006537853948amp;set=a.1298813503 99801.44758.126034164117853amp;type=1amp;theater"emhandmade pink tulle pompom headband/em/aemnbsp;which is a fantastic alternative to DIYing a wool version if you don't have the time or the patience. I'll be doing a post on my trip to the workshop in the coming weeks,nbsp;but in the meantime check out the other works of art on /ema href="http://www.ascothats.blogspot.com/"emPam's blog/em/aem, /ema href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000517729422"emher facebook page/em/aem or email her directly on /ema href="mailto

cameron@ascothats.com.au"empcameron@ascothats.com.au/em/aem for enquiries./embr /div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"br /br /a href="http://www.asos.com/20113009Blogger/Cat/pgehtml.aspx?cid=14295"span style="font-size: small;"nbsp;!!nbsp; VOTEnbsp; !!/span/a/divdiv style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: small;"Make sure you vote for your favourite look in the a href="http://www.asos.com/20113009Blogger/Cat/pgehtml.aspx?cid=14295"Asos Tea Party Competition/a to win span class="st"£/span250 to spend at Asos! Voting closes 17th October./spanbr /br /span style="font-size: x-small;"Outfit photos courtesy of /spana href="http://carmen-chan.com/"span style="font-size: x-small;"Carmen Chan/span/aspan style="font-size: x-small;" and /spana href="http://www.samishome.com/"span style="font-size: x-small;"Sam/span/aspan style="font-size: x-small;"./span/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8784775234411105189-866614158355372466?l=apair-andaspare.blogspot.com' alt='' //div