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Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com and I'll show you how to really quickly and easily
make a tassel that you can use in your jewelry designs
Here's a bracelet that Karlin did and she just made a nice little tassel
to give that extra little bit of pop, go for that
Boho chic look. It's really popular right now. I want make tassels of course
so what you're going to need for this project is some pearl cotton,
a pair of scissors. You don't have to use this type. This is scissor, whatever type of
sharp scissor you have at home or work is fine
and a jump ring. I'm using close jump ring. So what you're going to do
is take your pearl cotton. You just unwind some of it
now if you wanted to you could carefully measure out about four inches
and do about twenty different lengths of four inches
if you wanted to but I actually think it's way easier to just to do is
wrap the pearl cotton around your hand
and we're gonna just to do a loose measurement that way
and then we're going to trim our tails. Either way works fine I just wanted to find
a way that I could do these really quickly and easily
you can use your hand, you can use an object, you can use a cell phone, wrap it
around whatever you like
so I'll do about 12 wraps. First hold that one tail
so then we've got 1, 2, 3
4, 5, 6, 7
8, 9, 10
11, 12 You can do more if you want
I'm actually think I'll make this a little thicker so I'll go up to 15
13, 14, 15
I'm just going to now trim off
my tail and before I go any further. I'm going to just grab a piece
that's about 14 inches or so long, up to 14 inches of
pearl cotton and now I'm going to carefully
this get this off my fingers. I'm going to pinch
the end and this is why I like to do it wrapped around an object
because now I can just put that folded end
through my jump ring. It's a bit easier to catch all the threads instead of trying
to put
25 strands through it
pull that down to the midway point
don't worry about your little loose strands like that, they're fine
now fold it in half, so about 50 percent
each on each end. Again don't worry about being too precise
Of course you want to make a longer tassel just wrap it around a little bit
of
a longer object. Now pinch
my strands and then take that extra piece I already cut
and I'm just going to wrap it around the top
I'm just gonna wrap number of times, when I'm happy with the number
of wrappings I'm going to just tie a knot
with my two tails
I'm going to
tie another knot just so it's secure, why not even another knot
and now I'm not going to trim my tails. I'm just gonna let them
become extra strands in my tassel and at this point
I'm going to trim off some of these bigger ones. Cut
the loops
These are thread snips that I'm using. I just really like them so I use them for
a lot of different things
but I can't cut a big thick amount at a
time with them. After all the loops are cut I'm going to go ahead
straighten out my ends
and now trim them so they're nice and even
This is why I wasn't too worried about measuring to begin with because I knew
my last step was going to be trimming my ends
see how that works
It's like when you get a haircut, you always find that there always a
couple strands that need a little extra training
there we go
There I have a tassel. See how it looks on
a piece of jewelry and here's another tassel. Really quick and easy to make
and what's great is pearl cotton comes in a bunch of different colors
you'll have a lot of options and it's not going to fray and if it does frail little
bit you can see her
edges right here, it just creates a really lovely tassel look
I highly recommend pearl cotton for this. It's
very quick and easy and affordable. I think you'd end up with a really pretty
tassel on the end. You can find all the supplies to make these tassel
as well as a lot of project ideas and other tutorials
at Beadaholique.com
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