Making a pom-pom fringe

For the final brush in this chapter, I thought we'd do something kind of fun,…so how about a vintage pom-pom brush?…Let's start by making the pom-pom.…We are going to need a circle that is 14 points by 14 points.…Now, in order to make this circle look like a pom-pom, we need to run an effect,…so that the edges are a little bit spiky, like a pom-pom.…So, we'll go up to Effect > Distort & Transform > Roughen, and we're going to set…this to 5%, Relative.…We'll turn on Preview, kick the Detail all the way up to 100, and we want…this to be on Smooth, so it looks like a soft pom-pom, instead of a dangerous, spiky pom-pom.…

Click OK.…We need to go up to Object > Expand Appearance, so that we can remove the effect,…and just have a path with a lot of anchor points.…Let's change the color to a very dark gray, and lose the stroke.…We need a second pom-pom now that's much smaller than the first.…So, let's go to the Scale Tool, and we'll scale this to 30%, and make a copy,…and let's change this copy to white.…