How To Make A Pom Pom Rug With Glue

Overall i used about 90 bundles and tied the bundles in a 8 8 grid.

How to make a pom pom rug with glue.

The coolest thing about this simple pom pom rug tutorial is that it is super inexpensive to make and it only takes a few hours less if you have dedicated helpers. With your 2 1 2 inch pom pom maker make the following amount of pom poms in these colours. Watch your fingers as glue will go through the plastic weaving. Put a drop of hot glue on a pom pom and stick to your plastic canvas.

Make sure to lay down paper before placing your mat on top when gluing down the pom pom s. Doubling up your string will reinforce your pom poms and keep them from falling apart. Remove any loose glue strands. 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.

Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable. 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. To keep the backing from fraying you can use duct tape. Cut a piece of nonslip rug padding to fit and glue to the back of your canvas.

When you are trimming your pom poms leave the string tail nice and long. 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. Start adding a small amount of glue to each pom pom and laying them down the rug. Cut your rug mat to the size you want.

Alternate colors and sizes gluing pom poms to the canvas until completely covered. Pom pom s rug mat hot glue gun. Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat. If you want to make the rug even more durable use a double layer of the non slip mat.

I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big. This will all make more sense with the instruction booklet that s included in the kit. Also if you use the harder plastic rug for backing it won t fray as much. Then make 20 in white using your 3 3 8 inch pom pom maker.

Easy diy pom pom rug materials. These will be used to tie the pom poms onto the backing. 10 x purple lilac 9 x light blue 12 x mint green 14 x yellow 18 x peach 21 x pink.