Who Doesn't Love a Good Tassel? Part 3: The Triple
I always love things that look more complicated than they really are. The Triple is one of those things.
Using a deck of playing cards in their box or your cell phone, wrap the first color around the shortest dimension of the playing card box for a total of 70 wraps.
Cut an extra length approx. 12” long, and fold it in half. Insert the folded edge of the yarn through the eye of a tapestry needle.
Insert the needle through the top fold of the wrapped tassel strands and remove the tapestry needle.
Pull the tails of your extra length of yarn through the looped end and pull to secure it around the tassel strands.
Knot the end tightly against the head of the tassel to secure the tails.
Carefully slide a pair of sharp scissors into the bottom fold of your wraps being sure to pick up all of the loops and cut.
Cut a 10” length of yarn, make a slip knot with a tail as long as the tassel, and tie it about 1/2 inch down from the top of your tassel to form the tassel neck.
Wrap and knot the ends to tightly secure. Thread the ends onto a tapestry needle and bury the tails into the middle of the tassel.
Trim the bottom of your tassel to tidy it up.
Now use the second color to make another tassel in exactly the same way.
Next use the third color to make a tassel, but this time only wrap your form 50 times instead of 70 times. The innermost or bottom tassel of the cluster needs to be a bit skinnier than the other two to fit inside neatly.
Now use the second color to make another tassel in exactly the same way.
Next use the third color to make a tassel, but this time only wrap your form 50 times instead of 70 times. The innermost or bottom tassel of the cluster needs to be a bit skinnier than the other two to fit inside neatly.
Once you have made three tassels, thread the extra length of yarn at the top of your first color 3 tassel through a tapestry needle.
Sew through the underside of a color 2 tassel like you’re stringing beads.
Pull snug, and make a knot at the top of color 2 tassel then sew back through color 2 tassel to bury the attachment. Remove needle. Trim ends to tidy up.
Using the tapestry needle threaded onto the extra length at the top of your color 2 tassel cluster, sew up through the bottom of the MC tassel, pull snug, and tie a knot to secure, then go back down through the color 2 tassel to bury the tails and trim.
Use the long tail of the color 1 tasses to secure your Triple to your project.