Do-it-yourself home furnishings will surely give your nest more warmth, convenience, coziness and soul. The needlewomen know a lot about creating unique things that can dilute the boring atmosphere in any room. Do-it-yourself home-made things will give the room more personality, add a designer touch to the amateur craftsman, tell guests about the originality of the tenants and care for the home. Do-it-yourself pom-pom rug is an excellent decor that can give comfort to any room and fit into any interior.
Carpets in the house
What decor do we most often meet in the rooms? Carpets This is the most familiar decor in the setting of any apartments and houses. One is not like the other, bizarre drawings, ornaments and images, warm and soft, they not only fill the free space of the room, but also perform many other functions that we never thought about.
Carpet Features
Carpet is comfort; elastic pile or soft, long and warm pleasant to the foot. In addition, it serves as a heat insulator, which is necessary for private homes, maintains humidity and collects dust floating in the air.
The carpet is a good sound insulator: steps on the carpet are 10 times quieter than on the bare floor. It absorbs echoes and sounds from neighboring apartments, maintaining silence in a cozy nest.
Carpet - a first need for families with small children. Who will allow the child to crawl on the cold floor? A carpet with a long soft pile significantly softens the fall and reduces the number of small abrasions, which makes the presence of a soft carpet in the children's room mandatory .
The carpet will add a touch of luxury to your room, especially if you correctly select it for the interior and decor, add coziness or emphasize the style of the room.
Do-it-yourself rug
There are many ways to make a do-it-yourself rug, you probably know a couple, but have you heard about pom-pom rugs?
From the pompons that often decorate winter hats, scarves and clothes, the excellent soft rug complements your interior. It is very simple to make such a rug, you can make it of any shape, lay out any pattern. We will introduce you to several patterns of pompom rugs. Creating a home decor is a great activity on a cold or rainy evening. Sit back, and we will tell you how to make a rug of pompons with your own hands.
Material
In fact, making a rug is not a complicated process and requires only time, but how nice it will be to look at a finished soft do-it-yourself rug!
So, to create a rug you will need:
- Lush thick yarn. The quantity depends on the size of your future rug. If your hobby is knitting, then you probably have leftover yarn from past work. Having made a colorful rug of pompons with your own hands, you will get rid of the remnants of yarn interfering in the boxes.
- Scissors.
- Plastic canvas, mosquito net. You can also consider fabric or a knitted shape as the basis for a pom-pom rug.
- To create a pompom, you can purchase a special device for pompoms or use cardboard rings.
Pompons
Making a rug of pompons with your own hands is very simple. The main thing is to get your hand on creating the main parts - pompons. There are several ways to wind them.
Here's the first one: to make a pompom, you will need to cut two thick rings from cardboard. The larger the ring in diameter, the more magnificent the future pompom will be. But do not overdo it, you can focus on the bottom of a wide glass. The matter is small, connect the two rings and wind the yarn from the center on them. Spread the threads evenly around the ring. When finished, pushing the scissors between the cardboards, cut the wound. But do not rush to remove the cardboard boxes, slightly spread them aside and tightly tie a piece of thread between them.
After removing the cardboard base, give the pompom a perfect round look and take on the second.
For convenience, you can cut the rings, but hold the threads so that they do not slip.
The second method will require a plug. It will turn out only small pompons. In the middle, between the third and fourth cloves, leave a long piece of yarn, which will fix the center of the pompom. Wrap the yarn over the cloves of the fork with a thick layer. Leave the yarn left around the center of the wound threads and tightly knit. Cut the threads and give them the desired shape.
For the third method, you can use a toilet paper sleeve or half-folded cardboard. Take the sleeve and squeeze it, flattened. Cut on one side and put in the thread that will hold the pompom together. Wind the thread evenly over the bushing. After winding, secure with the prepared thread and cut. Trim the pompom to its perfect shape.
In the process of creating pompoms, you can also use a special tool for this or wrap it on your fingers.
Creature
So, how do you make a rug of pompons? Determine what shape you want your mat for. What picture are you going to lay out.
Cut out the desired shape from the plastic canvas. Having estimated the approximate location of the pompons, proceed to their creation. Take your time to cut the thread that fastened your pompom. Pull the thread in the canvas and tie it tightly. Fill your canvas with pompons in a certain sequence or at random, depending on your desire.
Bag mat
But not only from yarn, you can create a rug of pompons with your own hands. If you need a rug to the front door, it would be a pity to send good yarn under dirty bots. How to make a rug of pompons that can be washed? From garbage bags. Stock up on a couple of rolls of garbage bags; you can search the supermarket shelves for bags of different colors to make a small picture. On such a rug it will not be a pity to become dirty boots.
Take the bags and cut into strips. It will be easier to form a pompom in the third way. You can also use a mosquito net or plastic canvas as the basis for the pom-pom rug.
Of the small pompons, perhaps you can put out the inscription. Experiment, making pom-pom rugs is very simple and only requires perseverance.
Examples and schemes
Pay attention to the schemes of these lambs. Having connected the base in the form of a trunk and a muzzle, you can get any cute little animals. Muzzles can be filled for volume: it looks great. This is a good decoration in the nursery.
Look at what a successful combination of colors turned out by the author of this rug. Pompoms resemble small pebbles, very pretty.
An interesting rug was made of pompons with a smooth, neat pattern. It looks very warm. Such a rug deserves to lie in the living room.
Bright pink rug made of small pompons is very cute. The author did not lay out the ornament here, but it turned out very cool anyway.
Such a rug is a real masterpiece. It looks like a real skin. It will look great near your sofa or in front of the fireplace. And the animals will not suffer.
A heart-shaped rug is a great decoration for your bedroom. Or maybe in the room to the girl? You can decorate the plaid on the bed with pink pompons in addition to it. It looks very organic.
To make a pom-pom rug look good in your interior, decorate something else with pom-poms. For example, a plaid in the bedroom. See how interesting chairs look.
You can decorate flower pots, bookmarks for books and bedspreads with a pompom, and diversify pillows on the sofa. Imagine decorating your house.
We hope you enjoyed our pompom rug workshop.