How To Make A Rug Out Of Yarn Pom Poms

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How to make a rug out of yarn pom poms.

The pom poms will be tied to this to form the rug itself. 1 if the one you find is too big you can always cut it down. Make sure you use acrylic yarn to make your diy rug or at least something that is 100 washable. The bigger the rug the more yarn you ll need.

You need to make sure of a few things before an attempt to clean your rug. When you are making the pom poms you need to make sure to wrap your tie string around at least twice and really ratchet down and tighten as much as you can. Make a cardboard pom pom maker. You will create a lot of yarn confetti when trimming the pom poms so spread out newspaper or have a paper grocery bag handy to trim the pom poms over.

It will be used to make the pom poms for the rug. Also if you use the harder plastic rug for backing it won t fray as much. To keep the backing from fraying you can use duct tape. The thicker your yarn is the fluffier your pom poms will be.

After you have created the pom poms it is time to attach them to the rug pad. Starting with the first one in the corner of the rug take the long ends of the yarn that you used to tie off the pom pom and push them through the mesh of the rug pad. 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.