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MA ‘Berry’ Tastefully Done Decoration
other’s Day recently took place, and when When making these you must plan on what colors it comes to what my mom likes, it’s re- you want to see and where. That is how you will ally about the food. Like mother, like wind your yarn around the pompom maker. You
MAY 12, 2021 HAWAI‘I ISLAND MIDWEEK 9
SUPPLIES AND TOOLS:
• red yarn
• light pink/peach yarn • green yarn
• pompom maker or sturdy cardboard
• scissors
Note: The sample shown was made using Sugar
‘n Cream Yarns (Red No. 77641050, Tangerine No. 30105523 and Mod Green No. 30105516). Ben Franklin Crafts carries several pompom-making tools.
daughter! One of the things my mom likes to eat is can even experiment making other fruits, food or
strawberries, so this week’s project is dedicated to my mom: a special pompom that resembles the fruit. There is a technique to making these with dif- ferent colors, and using a plastic pompom maker makes it easier. But if you don’t have one, you can
animals.
Send your photos to joyofcrafting@gmail.com.
still make one with a cardboard version.
You can find this project sheet and many others at benfranklinhawaii.com.
If I share them here, I’ll send you a Ben Franklin Crafts gift card.
1. Create a DIY pom- pom maker using
sturdy cardboard. Use a
DVD or similar to trace a
4 1/2-inch circle. Then,
trace a smaller 2-inch
circle on the inside, like a
donut. Cut out the circle.
Then, cut out the inner
circle, creating an open
space as shown. Make two of these cardboard pieces. (If you are using a pompom-maker tool, skip this step.)
5. Take a 24-inch length of the green yarn and fold it
in half so it is doubled.
This is for tying up the
pompom.
From the opening end,
slip the yarn between
the two pieces of the
cardboard, stopping
where the yarn is wound around the cardboard. Leave equal tails on each side.
2. Hold the two
cardboard tem-
plates together.
Wind the red
yarn around
the cardboard
about 50 times.
Make sure you
wind the yarn
neatly, going
side by side and back and forth.
6. Wedge the
scissors between the cardboard templates and carefully snip the yarn apart at the top, working your way from one end to the other. Hold the yarn to the cardboard.
3. Take the light pink
yarn and wind around four
times. Then,
move over a
little, leaving
some space and
wind four more times. Move
over again and
wind four more times.
7. Slowly gather
up the green yarn between the cardboard. Tie the two ends together, bunching all the yarn into a pompom and remove from the cardboard.
4. Take the red
yarn again
and wind 50
more times,
covering the
light pink
yarn. Repeat
this red then
light pink pattern two more times. Lastly, take the green yarn and wind in the center about 15-20 times. Cut the yarn to form the skein.
8. Take the scissors and slowly trim
the yarn down into
the strawberry shape. Carefully trim the green yarn for the leaves but be careful not to cut the longer tie strands. You can use this as a deco- ration or add a clip and add it on a bag or even luggage.
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Like “ET”, those of us who aren’t with Mom on this special day, are all phoning home. We certainly don’t want to forget Mom. Thanks to my own Mom, I have a pretty good sense of humor. Seemedtoreallyhelpwhenyouhadasmanykids as we did. Besides being witty, my Mother was very particular about her appearance. Several yearsagoherdentistinstalledimplantsbutfailed to inform her there could be complications that
might affect her looks. Well, there were and it did and trust me, I was gladIwasn’therDentist!Momsare
special. They certainly make a house a home. Because I don’t wish to end up in the same
doghouseastheDentist,Iwon’ttell
you the year Jewel (aka Mini Ma) wasborn.Interestingly,inthatyear,theaverage yearly income was $1652. The cost of the averagehousewas$6515.Thingshavecertainly changed. The average income in a Hilo household
at the end of 2019 was about $53,000. When I wrote the original version of this article back in 2002, the average home was about $150,000. It’s now more than double that amount. Mortgage paymentscertainlyaren’twhattheyusedtobe. What’s the point, you wonder? Let’s put things in perspective. Today’s Hilo families (mostly 2 incomehouseholds)making$53,000peryear can qualify for a mortgage of around $400,000 not including property taxes and insurance. Back when baby-boomer parents were born, mortgageswereforonly20years.Thismeantthe payment of that $6515 house was about $43. It took only about $138 monthly income to qualify. An average purchaser could buy an average home.Ratiosandpaymenttermsaremoreliberal these days. We qualify for larger loans than previousgenerations,butwestillstruggletofind a home in town that doesn’t need major repairs for$350,000.Lackofinventoryisabigproblem. Fortunately, many purchasers have additional
sources of income such as overtime. Many opt to commute from our feeder communities so with a few compromises, owning a home is still possible. Our parents realized that home ownership wasawaytofreezehousingcosts. Theyalso understood that certain personal freedoms accompany home ownership. Now as then, theseconceptsstillholdtrue.Overtime,wehave learned that homeownership provides a vehicle for creating wealth. In the not too distant future, we will consider current mortgage payments a breeze.AndwhileMommaywishgasolinewas still .10 per gallon and bread was still .07, the cost of consumable goods is impossible to control for the average consumer. Thru homeownership, it’sentirelypossibletofixhousingcostsnowand in the years to come. Just one more reason to considerhomeownershiponthedaywehonor one of the most precious people in our lives! HappyMother’sDay!
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