Weaving a Pom Pom Mat

My mother taught me to weave on a frame. I tried a 12 " x 12 " size Pom Pom mat which you can see in the pictures above.

Please go through the steps to see how to weave this mat on frame

• One bundle of Sea green color yarn
• One bundle of Peach colored yarn
• A weaving frame for 12 " x 12" size mat

The frame has nails at half an inch distance between them. I will weave the mat with one inch distance in between. So I will leave one nail at center without yarn

• Start with sea green colored yarn
• Tie yarn at corner nail and thread over the first nail
• Take it to the other side, turn over first and through 5th nail and bring it back
• Warp 5 layers like this leaving 3 nails in between on both sides

• Tie one end of peach colored yarn at the corner nail
• Start warping the yarn through the center nail between sea green yarn
• Continue on both sides and warp six layers

Both the sea green and peach colored layers above are base layers

Now warp additional layers as below

• 3 layers of sea green
• 3 layers of Peach
• 3 layers of sea green
• 3 layers of peach (Final layer)

• Take sea green yarn in a plastic needle and start from one end and make cross knots as below
• Keep tied end of yarn in your hand and Insert the needle on top right square and bring it up through bottom left
• Twist the yarn in your hand and bring the needle through the twist
• Tightening the twist will make one knot
• Repeat by inserting needle through bottom right and bring it up through top left
• Twist yarn in hand and bring needle through the twist
• Tighten the yarn and make the second knot.Now a cross knot is formed the junction
• Continue and make cross knots at all junction points

The last two pictures show the front and back of the knotted mat in the frame

We need to cut all yarn layers above the base layer at middle of junction points

• using a pair of scissors cut all top layers at the center point
• Make sure you are not cutting any yarn in the base layer. You can also use the needle to lift the top layers by inserting it between them

• Using scissors, cut yarn over the frame between the nails and remove mat from frame

• Trim extra yarn at edges uniformly and finish

You can see the completed Pom Pom mat in the last picture