Oh! That's my chair (squeaks) (laughs) (intro)
Hi and welcome to Knit With Hannah. I'm Hannah. I'm here with knitting natter to help you learn
to knit the easy way. We're making tassels this week! Did you figure it out? As I do
more knitting and I make more tassels I kind of think "Well that's a bit silly. Why are you
going through all those processes to make a tassel?" In this method we do not need a book.
If you've watched the previous video about making tassels you'll know that I used
something like this: a hardback book like this and I wrap it around. So I've, when I was knitting
this summer, I filmed a tutorial on how I made these. As I was knitting, I realised something was
happening with the yarn and i thought "Mmm that's a really good way of making a tassel and it'll be so
much faster!" The only thing is when I filmed this video I'd left the yarn sitting around for a while
so it got a bit tangled and please, when you decide to make a tassel then do it as soon as
you finish knitting and don't let the yarn sit around for a month before you make the tassel! Go
and watch the tutorial and have a laugh at how silly I was leaving it for so long! So you can
see I've finished one tassel here already, and I use the same method for this one as I'm going to
for the others, and what I want you to look at first is the ball of yarn that I've used to knit with.
So the crucial thing is when you're knitting with super chunky yarn and you want to make
these tassels that you do start the ball of yarn from the centre. You're knitting from the centre
because it's these outside wraps that we are going to use to make the tassels.
That's what we have here. These are the outside wraps from two balls of yarn. This shawl makes um,
this shawl uses two balls of yarn, so that's how I have two,
two sets of wraps from the outside. So we're going to do, make two tassels with these.
So what I'm going to do is sit here and count out. I'm going to do about 32 of these wraps
for each tassel. OK that looks a bit messy but believe me this bit at the end doesn't matter.
What matters is that we've got them all sat here at the top,
quite happy and ready to go. So I'm going to give myself
a nice long length
to work with. So I'm going to chop off one of these threads.
There we go. That's a nice long length to work with,
and that one I'm just going to feed up to the top here.
This is the bit that we need. OK, so I'm just going to wind that over the top, through that hole,
and tighten it, there, while you're holding onto it, around, through,
and tighten it. There we go. OK, so that is the wraps held. That's the important point.
Now we're going to just bring this down here, and take about an inch and a half,
down here, and again wrap,
and through.
Wrap and through,
and tighten. OK, so that is our tassel held in place.
What I'm now going to do is put this thread into the
sewing needle, there we go, and pull that back up through here. I'm going to let
that come up right through the middle of that top piece there, so I'm taking it through here
and up into the center of that, where we caught it at the top.
There, we go.
here we are
There we are.
That is ready to sew onto the corner here
wherever we need it, but what we need to do now here crucially, is just tidy up the ends here,
because we didn't wrap it around the book, it all looks a bit messy, but this is actually very easy.
I've got big sharp sewing needles, sewing scissors here, and I'm just going to chop that, like that.
There you go. That was nice and easy wasn't it? Painless!
And I will just hold it and chop,
and then hold it,
and chop. There we go.
So that is your tassel. We can just-. When we've made them all we can double check that they're all very
similar length, and if one is particularly shorter than the others or one is particularly longer than
the others then we just trim them off so they're all the same length, then it won't look ridiculous
as you're wearing the shawl. OK, so that's one and I'm going to stitch here and make another one.
So that is your tassels all ready for the shawl. OK, that's that. You've done it and you can use this
method for this triangle scarf, triangle shawl, which is in the shop. We have three tassels on
this, so that's why I came up with this new method. It was very obvious to me that we could do this
with the ends of the yarn when I was knitting up the different color blocks, so it was very simple,
yes to me, when I saw that was happening. You could also use this method with, oh that's my chair! (squeaks) (laughs)
You can also use this method with this scarf here which I absolutely love. I love this scarf.
It's so long, it's so stripey. It's not a Doctor Who scarf. I cannot claim this is a Doctor
Who scarf, but it feels like it because it goes around so many times! There we go, and we
have the tassels on the end there, so you can use that for this as well. Both of these are
beginner kits. If you've not really knitted much before then these are ideal to just take that
step further and knit with more yarn. If you've watched the video about beginners first projects
that I released at the end of August and then you know that I do suggest knitting up
small items first so you can just get used to it. Cast on, knit, cast off, cast on, knit, cast off.
It makes sense to just get an understanding of all those different processes before you
start using more yarn and knitting with more yarn like you do with a scarf and
especially with this. It's four balls of yarn. It's a great knit. It is large needles and
you put the tassels on the end as well. OK, so, yeah, those kits are available. These
shawls are new kits. I'll put the links to that below, and indeed this is a kit from last year,
so, it's one of the favorites. It's one of the kits that I pack up most, especially during the winter.
Do go and have a look at those. We've got everything there ready for you and if you'd
like to knit one of these up and like I said the link will be below. Thank you so much for joining
me today. Do give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed this video. It really does help the
channel. Thanks so much for joining me today. I'll see you again soon. Bye for now. Happy knitting!
I do feel like i've been talking particularly quickly in this video. Apologies if I have,
and you can subscribe and you can find a new video below, so do go and have a look at them!