Measure down the hank a couple of inches depending how big you want your pom poms to be and tie it off leaving the tails of yarn.
Diy yarn pom pom rug.
If you have dogs you probably wish to choose a little darker color yarn.
Remove the hank from the chair legs and lay it on a table.
When you are making the pom poms you need to make sure to wrap your tie string around at least twice and really ratchet down and tighten as much as you can.
Cut your rug pad into the size and shape you d like your rug to be.
Mine is an oval.
If you want to make the rug even more durable use a double layer of the non slip mat.
How to make a pom pom rug.
Tie the pom poms onto the mat using the strings then tie every 2 pom poms together to make them more secure and durable.
Chose the right mash mat.
Do this all the way down the hank of yarn.
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Don t tie too tight though or you might break the mat.
Each day 2 3 hours final thoughts on fluffy pom pom rug diy.
Use blanket chenille yarn if you want you yarn rug super fluffy.
Secure the pom poms to the rug pad took me 3 days.
I used 180 pom poms for my 18 20 rug but my pom poms weren t very big.
With bigger holes you ll have an easy job to tie the pom poms to the mash mat.
Make sure you use acrylic yarn to make your diy rug or at least something that is 100 washable.
Cut in between the tied off section keeping the space on both sides of the tied section as even as possible.
Make a boatload of pom poms.
Check out my full pom pom tutorial make sure that you leave the tails of the yarn you re tying around the pom pom yarn pretty long.