Here is my original tutorial

I have been having so much fun making tassels.
It all started when I made this caramel apple tassel

If you have never made one before and don’t know where to begin here is the tutorial on how I made the caramel apple tassel.

Then I made this one for Miss G4 room–because every 2 year old needs a tassel — right.

I made it a little different but not because I felt like the first try was wrong, just for a different look.

I saw the letter holder and thought it would be perfect.  The wood box was black so I carefully popped off the fleurs and painted it.  It took several coats to cover the black. Then I hot glued the fleurs back on.  I did not have a candle cup so I was being creative and used one of my cut up piece of wrapping paper tube and hot glued it to the bottom of the wood cube.  I hot glued the end of the piece of fur I wanted to hang from the middle at the bottom of the tassel and stuffed it up in the little piece of tube, attaching it with a pair of sizzors (so I wouldn’t burn myself).  Then I pulled out my ribbon that I keep on hand so I can make Miss G4 a hair bow to go with any outfits we might acquire and some wide rick rack I had left over from another project. I picked several of the pinks I have (we always have lots of different pink variations because Miss G4 loves pink) and a little green and laid them out in the order I wanted them and made the next layer of looped ribbon a little shorter than the fur and continued doing the layering process till I got to the top.

I had a small piece of that fluffy, furry material, from when I made (without a pattern) Miss G4’s dress, bolero jacket and matching purse, for the wedding-last month.  I even made the rose bud button, to close the jacket and purse–from scratch.

Yep–just some ribbon, thread and sewing needle and I made this:

So back to the furry material.  I had a piece wider than I needed but I wanted to scrunch it up.  It covered up the last remains of wrapping paper tube.  Then the wire hook was too long for a tassel so I added some of the rosebud fur I had left over from her outfit, wrapping it around about 3 times, then I added a little bling and a bow on top of that.  I added a ribbon loop to the very top with some feathers, that had fallen out of one of Miss G4s dress up pieces and there she is.  I love her.

So I am still working on this Winter Wonderland tassel but thought I would go ahead and post what I have done so far.

I used a Mandarin orange can.  I like that it is plain, without ridges in the can  I hot glued ice cycles, added a little paint, more hot glue and glitter to the top of the can.  I poked holes through the sides and glued in my thick chenille for my “snowball bicket”.  I stuffed an extra piece of white material in the can, to take up space then hot glued in my snowballs.

I plan on making the fur thinner around the bottom.  I used the wrapping paper tube on the bottom of this one as well.  Remember I told you to save up your paper towel, toilet paper and wrapping paper tubes?  I have a tutorial that I am going to show you on Wed. that will knock your socks off.  It is a really cute project for the holidays.

I stuffed feather up in the tube (using the end of the scissors to attach it–hot glue is really hot and it isn’t fun to touch it.  I guess they came up with a really good name for it when they named it HOT GLUE-huh.)

I had not found exactly what I wanted in the ribbon area for this one so I bought an 1/8 of a yard of silver tissue lame’ and iridescent lame’ and made strips of ribbon for the bottom.  SO I still have some changes to make to this one but she is coming along.

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