In this video i'm going to be showing you how to make a lovely chunky tassel this is the tassel
that i used on the briar blanket which is the brand new pattern which has just been released
it's released as part of a collection it's the bella coco crochet homeware collection a
collaborative collection which is absolutely gorgeous if you want to find out more about
that i'll leave a link in the description box so that you can go and check it out
but it has some really beautiful patterns in there so make sure you go and have a look to make this
tassel you are going to need your yarn i'm using the lion brand thick and quick which is what i've
used in the blanket as well you are going to need a smaller pair of scissors and a really nice sharp
pair of scissors you will need a tape measure and a darning needle as well as well as that you are
going to need something to wrap your yarn around now i am using this so this is a ruler which i
use if i'm cutting fabric and things and this is actually really handy for me because it needs to
be six inches which is what this is here but you could use a book if you wanted to or you could use
some cardboard it's totally up to you but you just want something to wrap around your yarn around
and it probably wants to be about six inches by six inches mine is much longer but that's
what you need to do okay before we actually make the tassels we are going to go ahead
and just get some shorter pieces so grab your yarn and your scissors and let's get
started so we're going to prepare to make our tassel by making some smaller sections of yarn
now this section here which is the attachment is going to be this shorter one i have done that to
12 inches so you want a 12 inch piece if you are making more tassels you want however many
of these for however many of tassels so for the blanket i've done for example you would need four
of these and then this slightly longer one here is this section here which is going to secure
your tassel together i have done mine to 20 inches but if you want this section to be a little bit
bulkier a little bit thicker you can maybe do 40 inches so that it's it's double the width
so go ahead and get those pieces you will need the same number of pieces to the amount of tassels
you're doing so four and four if you're doing four tassels and then we're going to go ahead and
make the main section okay so to make the tassel you either want to take your ruler like this or
your book or your cardboard and we're going to lay the yarn down over and then just simply
start to wrap it round so this is the third wrap for me and we want to do 50 in total so this
50 wraps is going to make the chunky tassel like i've done so let's go ahead and do those 50 wraps
okay so once you've been round 50 times you're going to go ahead and snip off your yarn so what
we want to do is take this 12 inch piece of yarn and we're going to go ahead and put this
underneath these strands so you can use a your darning needle to push it through if you want to
i'm just going to thread it through like so and then we want to bring it upwards
like so make it even and then we're going to tie it in a knot so you want to have it all the way
to the top of your attachment so whether it's your cardboard or a ruler or a book
bring all the way up and make a nice tight knot i'm going to go ahead and do a second one in there
and you want to just try and keep that as tight as possible
like so we're now going to gently pull this off
like so and then i'm just going to give that a pull just so that attachment is right at the top
so some people do actually do their cutting at this point but i like to just leave that for now
and then we're going to take the 20 inch piece of yarn and then lay our tassel over the top
and then i'm going to make a knot in here and this is going to be around an inch to
an inch and a half down from the top of the tassel where the attachment is
so i'm securing that there i'm going to lay that down and just tuck it under
at the back and then we're going to take this end and wrap it around
like so so at this point we want to take this tail end we want to get our darning needle
and we want to secure it and we're going to hide this end into the actual tassel itself
so what i like to do here is just go under one of the strands that we've just created and then
i make kind of a little knot there and then i'm going to go into the tassel and bring that out
through the centre and that just hides it within the centre of the tassel and it's nice and secure
now the next thing that we need to do is we need to find the centre of these loops and we're going
to take these really sharp scissors and you want to hold on to your tassel and pull these
scissors as far flat as possible and then you can go ahead and start making your cuts to those loops
okay so there we have our tassel but what we want to do now is we want to make sure that it's all
nice and neat and you can trim this to the length that you want so if you have a particular length
you might want to trim it down and you can use your tape measure in order to do that
i'm just going to squeeze the tassel down like so and we can see that some of the bits are longer
and then i'm just going to take these really sharp scissors
and cut it down to size making it neat and there we have our chunky tassel so the next thing that
you could do with this is to actually steam your tassels so that they sit nice and neatly
and once they're steamed you might want to do a little bit more trimming on them as well
and if you want to make these in different weight yarns but want them to still be really
really chunky all you would need to do is wrap your yarn around your cardboard piece
a little bit more and that's where you're going to get your chunkiness so as i say
these are on the briar blanket i'll leave a link in the description box if you want to
go and check that out if you like this video then you might want to check this one out too