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.
How to make a pom pom ball rug.
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You can also leave the pom pom untrimmed for more of a shag carpet look repeat with the remaining yarn to make lots and lots of pom poms.
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The bigger the rug the more yarn you ll need.
Make sure you don t trim off the long tail the shorter you trim the yarn the more fluffy and ball shaped the pom pom will be.
The pom poms will be tied to this to form the rug itself.
Doubling up your string will reinforce your pom poms and keep them from falling apart.
For our rug we made about 150 pom poms.
1 if the one you find is too big you can always cut it down to size.
When you are trimming your pom poms leave the string tail nice and long.
The first step for making your own large pom is to grab 2 toilet paper rolls and while keeping them together wrap yarn around the rolls a bunch of times.
Around 2 3 per skein roll.
It will be used to make the pom poms for the rug.
Make your own pom poms if you are making any pom poms for your rug you will need the next 10 steps.
The tails will attach our pom to the rug backing.