How To Make A Pom Pom Rug With Glue

With your 2 1 2 inch pom pom maker make the following amount of pom poms in these colours.

How to make a pom pom rug with glue.

Overall i used about 90 bundles and tied the bundles in a 8 8 grid. Remove any loose glue strands. My rough estimate would be about 80 100 pom poms per square foot but this would depend on the size of the pomps you ll make. Doubling up your string will reinforce your pom poms and keep them from falling apart.

The tails will attach our pom to the rug backing. If you want to make the rug even more durable use a double layer of the non slip mat. Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat. 10 x purple lilac 9 x light blue 12 x mint green 14 x yellow 18 x peach 21 x pink.

Watch your fingers as glue will go through the plastic weaving. When you are trimming your pom poms leave the string tail nice and long. I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big. Put a drop of hot glue on a pom pom and stick to your plastic canvas.

Easy diy pom pom rug materials. When you make your pom poms make sure you cut a nice long piece of string and double it up to wrap around the center. Make sure to lay down paper before placing your mat on top when gluing down the pom pom s. Also if you use the harder plastic rug for backing it won t fray as much.

Alternate colors and sizes gluing pom poms to the canvas until completely covered. Start adding a small amount of glue to each pom pom and laying them down the rug. Pom pom s rug mat hot glue gun. Cut your rug mat to the size you want.

These will be used to tie the pom poms onto the backing. Then make 20 in white using your 3 3 8 inch pom pom maker. Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable. This will all make more sense with the instruction booklet that s included in the kit.

My helper didn t help a lot but she loved the fact that she still contributed a couple of the pom poms and popped back to check on the progress. To keep the backing from fraying you can use duct tape. Make sure to leave the tails long.