Pom-pom Production Line

If you've been following along, you'll know that I have a lot of yarn pom-poms to make for our wedding toss. We're talking 300-500 little balls of yarn. And, since I'm not completely insane, I recently enlisted a team of yarn wrapping and trimming divas by bribing them shamelessly with the promise of wine and snacks. Meet my crew:

Bridesmaid Emily enjoying a sample of the white sparkling wine we'll be serving at the reception -- in one of the champagne flutes I've acquired for my bridal party. See her wrapping the yarn around her fingers? She's following the direction on this super easy tutorial for Bella Dia.

Stephanie who sweetly picked up yarn for perhaps the first time to help me with this daunting wedding project. She's a self-proclaimed non-crafter, but she did a great job. Here she's starting to trim the spiky ball of yarn you get after you've wrapped the yarn and cut the edges.

And wedding invitation goddess, Laura. Who is designing all my wedding stationary and left her gorgeous little boy at home for a day to be a part of my sweatshop. Check out her design work at http://www.lauramcdougall.com/. Her pom-pom is almost done in this picture.

And, what kind of progress did we make you ask? Well, we made exactly 100 pom-poms in just under three hours.  I'm keeping them in a large gift bag I got at our first bridal shower. Maybe I should put them in something smaller so they look more substantial, huh? I've continued to make more on my own, so now you can't see the bottom of the bag anymore. That's progress, right?

So, do you see my vision? Can you see these purple and tan and black poofs gently flying through the air as we walk down the aisle as husband and wife? I can!