Tassel tutorial

I use tassels for decorating beanies and bags.
This is how I make them.

Find something as wide as the finished length of the tassel. I use a ruler.
Hold a crochet hook close to the ruler.

Wind the yarn around the ruler and the crochet hook.

When your tassel is thick enough, if you use two yarns – cut one of them close.

Cut one yarn long enough to use for finishing.

Thread a needle to the yarn.

Pull the tassel off the ruler, but keep it to the crochet hook.

Wind the yarn around the tassel, close to the crochet hook.
Make sure to wind as hard as you can (but don’t break the yarn).

Fasten the yarn through where it is winded around the tassel.

Pull the yarn off the crochet hook very carefully.
Make sure you keep the “hole” open at the top of the tassel, and insert the needle.

Sew five or six times through the hole, around the top of the tassel.
Fasten the yarn as in the picture, and pull the yarn all through.

Sew the tassel onto your project.

A few stitches around the tassel and the project.
Make one or two locking stitches.

Push the needle down the tassel to lock the yarn and
cut it off the same length as the tassel.

Cut all the yarn loops open.

Hold the tassel tight between your fingers and trim the bottom.
Turn a quarter and trim again. You will have to make this over and over
several times until the tassel is completely even.

This is how the finished tassel will look.

Happy crafting!