How To Do Tassels

You want to embellish or add a little extra to a shawl, a bag, a scarf?

Here is a tutorial to learn how to make tassels with yarn.

This technique is quite easy.

First of all, choose the yarn you want to use: cotton, wool, etc.

Then cut a piece of cardboard to the height you want (I confess that I, out of laziness convenience, used my smartphone as a jig!).

If you want to make a tassel movable from the piece you want to attach it to, proceed as follows :

• Wrap the yarn around the cardboard until you get the required thickness (for example 10 times)
• Insert a thread on top of the cardboard and make a double knot (to create the tassel attachment).
• Remove the cardboard and wrap a thread around the vertical strands to form the head of the tassel (as in the video).
• Once this has been done, trim the end of the tassel as necessary to remove any irregularities.

If you want to make a tassel fixed to the part to which you want to attach it, proceed as follows (as in the video):

• Wrap the yarn around the cardboard (as much as you want, you don't need a given number of threads at this step)
• Cut the yarn at the base, you get a series of strands of equal length
• Take a number of strands (here 10)
• Insert them with the hook at the place you want - here on the edge of the shawl (as on the video)
• Take one strand and wrap it around the vertical strands, close with a double knot.
• Do the same for the other tassels
• Once this has been done, trim the end of the tassels as necessary to remove any irregularities.