Making a rug from the net, thread and pompons

Air pompons are the perfect complement to any interior. A colorful rug made from voluminous pompons will accentuate and add freshness to the interior.

Such a rug in the nursery will be especially relevant, you no longer have to worry that the child will catch a cold while playing on the cold floor.

Methods for making pompons

There is no one way to create volumetric balls, in order to know how to make a soft carpet of air pompons with your own hands, consider the basic and popular methods.

• Fork.

Take scissors, thread and fork. Wind the thread onto the plug, leaving the edges free. Take the two edges of the yarn and tie it tightly in the middle. Cut the loops of the threads, which were formed from two sides, with scissors. Spread the ball.

• Cardboard.

Cut a rectangle out of cardboard and glue a cylinder with an axial hole from it. Fold it up to the look of a rectangle. Secure the yarn, which will need to tie the ball on a cardboard cylinder. Take the threads prepared for the rug from pom-poms and wind them across the width of the cardboard rectangle. On the one hand, cut them, and on the other, tie.

• Classic.

This conventional method involves the presence of a special two cardboard circles with a hole in the middle. You can cut them yourself. We put the circles together and start wrapping the threads around. When the yarn is wound enough, cut it from the outer edge of the circles, between them. We remove the cardboard and tie the yarn in the middle.

• Chair.

With this method, you can immediately produce a large number of accessories. It is very useful if you have conceived step by step with your own hands to make a large-sized carpet of multi-colored pom-poms. Turn the chair upside down. Wrap the legs on the legs. Tie the wound thread every 5-6 cm. After the procedures done, cut them.

How to make a rug of pompons do it yourself

Consider in advance how the colored balls will be arranged, in what order. Flight of fantasy will help create an incredible product with your own hands in the form of an animal or any geometric shape. Romantically look rugs made of pink pompons with their hands in the shape of a heart.

After the future color and shape of the work is known, think about its thickness. If the house has a cold floor, and a carpet of fluffy pompons will perform a warming function with your own hands, you need to consider an additional layer. To do this, add a synthetic winterizer or other heat-saving material to the work.

The fastest way to create a carpet of pompons is with a hot gun. Before you make a soft rug of cute pompons with your own hands, prepare a net or fabric for the size of the desired job.

We make a rug of fluffy pompons with our own hands step by step: what you should pay attention to.

• Sewing the balls close together, in a staggered manner, you will create a fluffy product, it will be smooth and neat.
• The wider the pattern for creating balls, the more fluffy and more voluminous they will come out.
• If the elements for the rug will be created from knitting yarn, carefully straighten it so that future balls keep their shape and look attractive. You can use the steamer.
• To create a work of a non-standard form, for example, an animal or a heart, first draw a diagram. Consider in advance how the colors will be arranged. Separate elements can be connected with knitting or crocheting (for example, head, legs, nose, eyes).
• The accessory can be decorated with additional elements: buttons, fringe.
• Balls can be made in different sizes, so the rug will turn out unusual and original.
• If you get the thread by dismissing the old knit thing, straighten it, wetting and putting it under the load.
• The optimal ball size is 10 cm in diameter.

To create a leopard will need pompons of different sizes, made of black, white threads. Leopard's head can be volumetric. To do this, it must be sewn from thick fabric and stuffed with padding polyester, and then sheathed tightly with small pom-poms.

For a country house there are ideas more interesting. In particular, you can easily make a bear skin pattern. And then sew dark pompoms on top and form a bear's head out of them.

Materials and tools

• Yarn of any color and thickness. The thicker it is, the more fluffier and larger the ball will come out of it.
• The yarn can be taken from any available material: wool, viscose, acrylic.
• Scissors, thread with a needle.
• The material chosen for the base: mesh, fabric, PVC foam.
• Cardboard, compass, pen or pencil.
• Crochet hook.

Square Mesh Carpet

Consider the option when a carpet in the form of a grid is taken for a carpet of multi-colored pompons.

1. Prepare two bases, the first of the grid: cut the desired rectangular or square shape, and the second is similar from fabric.
2. Make the required number of pom-poms that can cover the entire base tightly and evenly.
3. Put the balls on the base. Fasten the thread from the wrong side. Threads from two adjacent pompons on the reverse side are also connected. The distance between them should be minimal so that the work is volumetric and soft.
4. Prepare a second, fabric base layer and sew to the wrong side of the product.

Round rug on a fabric basis

For this shape of the rug of pompons with their own hands, it is necessary to carve out a round fabric base in two copies. The fabric should be dense, for example, jeans, tapestry, corduroy, burlap.

1. Sew pom-poms on the base with a large needle and a thick thread. Fasten the thread from the wrong side.
2. Fasten the balls in a circle, as close as possible to each other.
3. Fix and sew the second base on the wrong side.
4. If the rug is needed thicker, it can be sealed with the help of non-woven fabric, sintepon, felt.

Decorative mini rug or chair cover

If you do not know how to step by step make a pattern for a rug from bright pompons with your own hands on a chair, take a centimeter and measure the parameters: the seat and the back. Add 2 cm from each side to the received figures and cut out the base for the cape. As a basis for a soft rug from round pompons for a chair fabric will be better suited.

Stitch the balls tightly on the base. From the seamy side, apply fabric to hide the knots and threads on the cloak. It is not necessary to compact the product, it should not be thick, so as not to lose its flexibility and fit well to the furniture. The edges of the work can be viscous or weave a tape of your choice.

There are three landing options.

• Gently tie a cape to the seat and back of the chair, if it has a soft upholstery.
• Sew special ribbons in the corners of the cape.
• Throw, without fixing.

With such a wonderful, step-by-step carpet made of bright pompons with your own hands, the chair will change: it will be not only beautiful, but also comfortable.

Imagine and invent your unique products. A soft carpet of pompons is an excellent solution for any living room: as a cozy element of decor or a practical and warm piece for sitting on the floor.

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