How To Make A Pom Pom Rug With Glue

Put a drop of hot glue on a pom pom and stick to your plastic canvas.

How to make a pom pom rug with glue.

To keep the backing from fraying you can use duct tape. 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. These will be used to tie the pom poms onto the backing. 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.

Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat. Also if you use the harder plastic rug for backing it won t fray as much. Overall i used about 90 bundles and tied the bundles in a 8 8 grid. 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. This will all make more sense with the instruction booklet that s included in the kit. Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable. Alternate colors and sizes gluing pom poms to the canvas until completely covered.

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. 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. Pom pom s rug mat hot glue gun.

I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big. Easy diy pom pom rug materials. Make sure to leave the tails long. When you are trimming your pom poms leave the string tail nice and long.

Remove any loose glue strands. 10 x purple lilac 9 x light blue 12 x mint green 14 x yellow 18 x peach 21 x pink. Doubling up your string will reinforce your pom poms and keep them from falling apart. Watch your fingers as glue will go through the plastic weaving.

If you want to make the rug even more durable use a double layer of the non slip mat. Cut your rug mat to the size you want. Cut a piece of nonslip rug padding to fit and glue to the back of your canvas.