The tails will attach our pom to the rug backing.
How to make a pom pom locker rug.
When you are trimming your pom poms leave the string tail nice and long.
Around 2 3 per skein roll.
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Attach all of the the pom poms to the rug liner by tying the tails of yarn around the mesh.
This will all make more sense with the instruction booklet that s included in the kit.
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.
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.
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.
To keep the backing from fraying you can use duct tape.
The bigger the rug the more yarn you ll need.
It will be used to make the pom poms for the rug.
Overall i used about 90 bundles and tied the bundles in a 8 8 grid.
The pom poms will be tied to this to form the rug itself.
Repeat with the remaining yarn to make lots and lots of pom poms.
Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable.
1 if the one you find is too big you can always cut it down to size.
If you want to make the rug even more durable use a double layer of the non slip mat.
For our rug we made about 150 pom poms.
Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat.
I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big.