Knitting & Stitching Show 2015, Alexandra Palace

    Well here we are at this year’s Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. We are having a brilliant time meeting so many people who love stitching, talking endless needlepoint, meeting an amazing group of designer makers and even fitting in a bit of stitching time – fantastic!

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POMPOM Design visits John Lewis HQ

POMPOM Design was very pleased to have our studio-made needlepoint pillows selected from over 500 entries for the John Lewis Maker Opportunity. We were one of 15 small companies invited to visit the John Lewis HQ, and were really pleased bring along a selection of our hand-stitched needlepoint pillows and[…]more…

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How to: Make up a pillow / cushion

This simple tutorial gives very clear instructions for making up a pillow / cushion. Making up your needlepoint kit using this method, but using your kit dimensions as a template (rather than the pillow inner) is a good way to make up your kit into a pillow. The tutorial uses a machine[…]more…

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Our First Guest Blog Post

We were really pleased to be invited to contribute a guest post to &Stitches blog recently. For this first post we wanted to offer an introduction to needlepoint and also to a number of contemporary designers. It was a whilstle-stop tour, so we are looking forward writing more in depth[…]more…

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How to: ladder / invisible stitch

In our instruction booklets we suggest using ladder stitch to finish final seams when completing the transformation of you kit into a cushion / pillow. PomPom video tutorials are coming soon, but until then here is a video link that shows ladder stitch in action.  

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POMPOM at Liberty, London

As part of Liberty’s Get Creative programme POMPOM were invited to “craft live” in the store window and represent Etsy during the programme in October 2013. A bit of a delay posting, but here are some great shots of Helena in the Liberty window, showcasing our kits and finished cushions[…]more…

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How to: Basketweave Tent Stitch

I thought it might be helpful to add some simple video tutorials There are an array of long and short video’s, chatty videos, shaky videos, dull and tedious videos. We thought about making our own videos and when we have some spare time we definitely will! In the meantime here is[…]more…

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Our Interview With &Stitches Blog

We were very pleased to be invited by Nicole Vos van Avezathe from the &Stitches  blog to be interviewed for the blog. Read the interview here http://andstitches.blogspot.nl/2015/06/interview-with-pompom-design.html We also very pleased to have a kit review and blog post coming through too…

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