How To Make A Pom Pom Rug With Glue

Doubling up your string will reinforce your pom poms and keep them from falling apart.

How to make a pom pom rug with glue. Watch your fingers as glue will go through the plastic weaving. 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. Remove any loose glue strands. Pom pom s rug mat hot glue gun.

Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat. This will all make more sense with the instruction booklet that s included in the kit. When you are trimming your pom poms leave the string tail nice and long. Also if you use the harder plastic rug for backing it won t fray as much.

Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable. Overall i used about 90 bundles and tied the bundles in a 8 8 grid. Make sure to leave the tails long. Then make 20 in white using your 3 3 8 inch pom pom maker.

Make sure to lay down paper before placing your mat on top when gluing down the pom pom s. The tails will attach our pom to the rug backing. Easy diy pom pom rug materials. To keep the backing from fraying you can use duct tape.

Put a drop of hot glue on a pom pom and stick to your plastic canvas. Cut a piece of nonslip rug padding to fit and glue to the back of your canvas. 10 x purple lilac 9 x light blue 12 x mint green 14 x yellow 18 x peach 21 x pink. Alternate colors and sizes gluing pom poms to the canvas until completely covered.

These will be used to tie the pom poms onto the backing. With your 2 1 2 inch pom pom maker make the following amount of pom poms in these colours. Since i had already begun making the pom pom rug according to that diagram i decided i would continue with that style of difference sized pom pom s and use them in a rectangle. Start adding a small amount of glue to each pom pom and laying them down the rug.

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. I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big. 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.