How To Make A Pom Pom Locker Rug

For our rug we made about 150 pom poms.

How to make a pom pom locker rug.

Doubling up your string will reinforce your pom poms and keep them from falling apart. It s helpful to lay out the rug liner and arrange the finished pom poms on top of it to gauge how many you will need to make. I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big. Also if you use the harder plastic rug for backing it won t fray as much.

Around 2 3 per skein roll. Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable. This will all make more sense with the instruction booklet that s included in the kit. The bigger the rug the more yarn you ll need.

The pom poms will be tied to this to form the rug itself. Be sure to check thrift stores and second hand stores for lower prices. 1 if the one you find is too big you can always cut it down to size. The tails will attach our pom to the rug backing.

Attach all of the the pom poms to the rug liner by tying the tails of yarn around the mesh. Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat. Repeat with the remaining yarn to make lots and lots of pom poms. 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. 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. Overall i used about 90 bundles and tied the bundles in a 8 8 grid.