How do I make this kitten from wrapping yarn aound pieces of cardboard?

Question

Our mother was a great crocheter and did other yarn crafts. Mom made this little kitten from yarn. You had to wrap 21 7 1/4" by 1 1/4" pieces of cardboard with yarn then put these together to make this kitten. we can't remember how to put it together. Do you know where I can find how to do this it

Answer 1

Years back we made poodles out of long 'pompoms'.
To make the pompoms we had a wooden shape, like a ruler with a long hole in the middle.
you wound round it till the whole length had a layer of wool.
Then you had to sew though the layer of wool and the hole and the layer on the other side. I think we used metal wire for the sewing or in the sewing, so you could bend the pompom later.
To get it out of the shape you had to cut the wool on the edge of the 'ruler'. (2 layers of plywood?)
For a poodle you used 4 pompoms. One noose to tail, shaped a bit to make head, neck and body, one across it to make its ears. The other two where shaped as a horse shoe and sewn to the sides of the body, for legs.

I know this is not what you are looking for, but it might trigger your memory.

Answer 2

It sounds like your mother made pom poms by wrapping yarn around cardboard (then remove, tie around center, trim all rounded ends, and fluff).

Check out this site for making a bear with pompoms ...perhaps it's similar:
http://www.troop1379.org/pompom.htm

If not, check out some of the other links for making pompom animals:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=pompom+animals

And here are lots of sites on making pompoms:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=how+to+make+pompom


HTH,

Diane B.