How to Create Tassels
Tassels can be used to spruce up many items in your closet and around your home, such as drapes, scarves, shawls and so on. Tassels can be used to make plain, store-bought items more interesting, or can be added to homemade projects. Alternatively, when tassels on older or well-used item start to become worn or ratty, you can simply remove the older tassels with scissors and replace them with a brand new set. This method of creating tassels will ensure that each tassel you make for a project is uniform.
Instructions
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Determine how long you want your finished tassels to be.
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Cut out a rectangular piece of cardboard as long as you want your finished tassel to be and about 4 inches wide. The width doesn't really matter, so long as it it is wide enough for the string or yarn to wrap around many times without falling off the sides.
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Wrap your string or yarn around the cardboard as many times as you like, wrapping more for a thicker tassel and less for a thinner tassel.
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Slide a length of string or yarn, several inches long, under all the wrapped string or yarn, against the cardboard at one of the edges.
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Tie the length of string or yarn in a knot around the many loops you've made, cinching it as tightly as possible.
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Use your scissors to cut the loops at the opposite end of the cardboard, thus cutting the end of the wrapped strings opposite from the tied length of string.
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Remove the half-finished tassel from the cardboard, and set the cardboard aside.
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Make sure that your tassel is folded in half at the knot and wrap another length of string or yarn around the tassel's many strings several, about 1/2 to 1 inch from the knot. Tie a knot and tuck the ends into the body or the tassel.
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Tips & Warnings
Try not to use corrugated cardboard for this project, as it may tear some of the yarn's fibers. Instead, try thin cardboard from a old food box, such as the type that granola bars, spaghetti or cereal comes in.
Round off the edges of the cardboard to decrease the likelihood of cardboard cuts.
