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if you are using the we are memory
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keeper tassel Loom the way they show you
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to in the video then you're doing it all
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wrong keep watching if you want to see
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my best tips and tricks to how to get
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professional perfect looking tassels
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every time I love adding tassels to
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projects they really give a professional
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finish to lots of handmade things you
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can add them to scarves Shores blankets
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even use them to Adorn your tree or
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gifts for the holiday season now I
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recently purchased this we are memory
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Keepers tassel Loom to test out and see
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how how good it is and it's actually
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pretty good but the way they show you to
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use it in the video um tutorial that you
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get on their website or when you buy it
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from Amazon I wasn't really very happy
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with the way my tassel came out so I
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played around with it and I think I
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found the best way to use this now you
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can use any yarn you like I'm using some
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double knit today but you can use any
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yarn I've made tassels with uh some old
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scarf yarn that I had lying around you
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can use string or twine to make tassels
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any weight you like so we're going to
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begin you've got a little Notch here
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just pop your yarn in to hold it in
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place and then you're going to wrap your
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yarn round just keep wrapping around
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your your loom until you have as many
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need after numerous Yar B attacks I've
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now got 30 wraps I think we're going to
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go with that now I'm going to use some a
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piece of tne wine to tie the head of my
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tassel uh like this one here these ones
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are going to be used for my granny
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Stitch stocking so if you want to check
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out that video I will link that
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below so cutting it longer than I think
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I might need it cuz I am going to be
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using it to tie onto the stocking as
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tassel okay so now in the video
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so they they tell you to tie it around
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here which leaves one end of your tassel
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longer than the other which okay you can
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trim it but then there are other
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problems that arise as well so what I
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is just go kind of diagonally across the
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bar and then you're going to tie a knot
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a surgeon's knot so you're doing one
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around and then you're going to tie it
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now what the video tells you to do is
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then fold this over you will then trim
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the ends tie your head off as well here
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but this also I don't know if you can
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see this there's a a gap here between
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where this strand is in this strand when
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you finish your tassel the head of the
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tassel looks a bit weird so I'm going to
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show you a trick how to how you can stop
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that from happening so before we do this
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I'm going to pop this little metal bar
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out and just simply take it out of the
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tassel and then put it underneath all of
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strands and pop it back
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in now all of your strands are tied
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nicely you can just tighten that a
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bit now when we Bend this
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over everything is nice and neat and
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caught underneath here now I'm going to
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take another piece of twine to tie off
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tassel you can use yarn for this you
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twine now I'm making a loop with a tail
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upwards like this and I'm going to hold
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this where I want the yarn strands to go
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around the top of the
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tassel with this Ed and pointing
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upwards then going to start winding this
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thumb holding that Loop and that end so
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you're going to go around
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again this time I'm going to pull that
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Tighter and you're going to wrap around
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a few times each time pulling it
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tight I'm going to do one more and then
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you're going to bring this end around
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and where you have this Loop here you're
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going to thread your end through the
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loop then hold on to the other end and
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Pull and pull really tight and this ties
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a knot that is underneath all of those
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loops and it makes it really secure like
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so now if this was just normal yarn you
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could leave this bit hanging and then
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just trim this end off if you want you
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can tie an extra knot and then tuck your
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in because I'm going for a rustic look
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here I'm just going to trim
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mine then all we need to do is just trim
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then pop the little bar out you can then
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go ahead and tie an extra knot the top
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CU we've only got one knot there so far
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to make that completely secure and then
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you can use these ends to tie your
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tassel to whatever you're going to be
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using or or to hang them on the tree if
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you want to use them as tree decorations
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so we're going to just trim off these
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ends just kind of straighten them out
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trim like so and I'm going to add some T
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some tassels I'm going to add some beads
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to mine these are going on
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stockings just spreading through these
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natural beads are quite got quite a
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large aperture they're quite easy to
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thread on however these darker beads
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smaller so if you've got smaller beads
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you can thread your yarn or your twine
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onto a needle if you need
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to there you have your finished tassel
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these tassels are going on my granny
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Stitch stockings why don't you watch
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that video next bye-bye now
