How to Crochet a Tassel
Make tassels for your crocheted items using yarn and your crochet hook. Tassels add a touch of fun and whimsy to crocheted items and help to finish them off professionally. You can make a tassel in a couple of minutes. Tassels are a perfect craft for novice knitters or young crafters. Make several tassels at the edge of your crocheted scarf, or attach them to hats, sweaters and ponchos. The versatile tassel can be used to embellish just about anything.
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Instructions
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Cut a rectangle of cardboard with a width that is the same length as your tassel will be. You can recycle any kind of cardboard. Use cardboard box packaging, cereal boxes or other packaging material to make your cardboard rectangle.
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Take the end of the yarn and hold in on the edge of one of the long sides of the rectangle. Wrap the yarn around the rectangle a couple of times until there are enough wraps to make a tassel. The number of wraps will be determined by how thick you want the tassel to be and the thickness of the yarn you are using. If you are making more than one tassel, wrap the yarn around enough times for all the tassels.
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Cut the yarn along the long edge of the cardboard rectangle, where you first held the end of the yarn. You will now have several strands of yarn that are all the same size.
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Lay the yarn out on your work surface and align the ends. Take a bunch of yarn that will form your tassel. Fold it in half to form a "U" shape.
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Push the crochet hook though your knitted or crocheted item. If you are fringing a scarf, push the hook though the stitches at the very edge of the scarf.
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Place the "U" of the folded yarn onto the crochet hook and pull it halfway through the wool item. You will have a loop on one end of the wool item and the ends on the other side.
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Thread the ends of the yarn though the loop and pull tight. Your first tassel is complete.
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Tips & Warnings
If you are making more than one tassel, count the number of yarn pieces you put into your first one so that you can make them all equal.
When cutting the wool on the cardboard rectangle, you will only be able to cut a few strands at a time.
You can use the same color yarn in your tassels that you used for your knitted item, or several different colors.
References
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