Sea Anemone

This holiday season, I thought I would get crafty and make pom poms to top my gifts.  I pinned a tutorial months prior and came to find out the link to the tutorial was dead. The image was pretty descriptive, however, and I thought it would be easy enough for me to just wing it without written instructions (see image below).

So I gave it a shot, and this is what I ended up with:

Obviously, I wasn't using enough yarn even though the bundle I created looked like the picture in the instructions. My pom pom looks like a cross between a sea anemone and a Muppet Baby. I did later find this blog, by Elisa Mclaughlin Designs, where a much more clear description is given. Had I followed her instructions, I'm sure my pom pom would have been less sad looking.
I decided pom poms were too much work and my gifts got dollar store bows instead this year.
:)