pond_ripple's Fabric Blog

The medieval embroidered pouch that I wrote about here needed a little something extra to make it complete. Even before I started on this project, a row of little coordinated tassels was up on the agenda, but the thought of making them was intimidating. After cruising around on Pinterest several times looking for tutorials, I thought I had the general idea down, and set about making a few simple tassels. The tops of my tassels were frankly, a bit of a mess. Fortunately I planned to cover up that sad poof with this DIY .  Even more fortunately, I started trying to make my fancy buttonhole stitched top on a throwaway tassel (above). It took a lot of sewing and unsewing, stitch tutorial videos and frustration, a process that did some damage to that poor gray thing. Finally I figured it out, and got down to the real business of making my delicate looking black tops. Here you can see the unfinished top of one of my green tassels along with the embellished ...

As promised in my last post, here's another rice sock. This one is for my dad, and will probably be the end of the rice sock marathon. To view my tutorial on how to make a rice sock from a fabric swatch click here . I made this sock with my Snakes in Top-Hats fabric on Spoonflower. Rice sock front Rice sock back Rice sock front zoom Rice sock back zoom

Here's another rice sock. They are in high demand in my family. My mom got the first one, and I sent one to my grandmother, and now it's my brother who's getting one. I'll probably make an other, other one to send to my dad. Here's a link to my tutorial for rice socks . Front Back Front zoom Back Zoom Front zoom