Crochet tassles

when you do the final row, to clean things up, just make a chain off the tip of the earflap and then do stitches back up the chain and reconnect with the hat, and keep doing your border. or you could just braid em on after you finish the whole thing.

orrrrrr......just make the one chain down, cut it, tie back on the earflap. after your done with that, make dope pom-pomz n tie em on the single chain.

if that didnt make sense, just shoot me a PM n ill explain in greater detail.

cut a bunch of string the same length then put one crossing it so you have an x. then fold all ends of the many strings together, and tie a string  underneath the single string. sorry if that was confusing

thick french braids

Alright this is what you do.

Cut like 6 strands of yarn, whichever color, all reasonably long. Probably like 3 feet or so, this will give you a tassel of about 1 foot to 1 feet 3 inches or so. In the very bottom center stitch of your ear flap, pull all 6 strands through. Pull them through so that you have like 2 inches on one side of the earflap, and all the remainder on the other side.

Lay the hat on the ground. On the part where there is 2 inches, step on those 6 strings. While you are stepping on those strings, pull the the strings vertical so you are holding them up, one end in your hand, the other end on the ground held by your foot. Start twisting. Twist and twist and twist until the string is spun up so much it starts twisting in on itself. Reach down and grab the strings your foot was standing on.

Pull the strings taught and raise them horizontally in front of you so the hat is dangling by the earflap from the strings. Tilt the strings up and down until the hat is centered on the twisted strands of yarn. Bring your two hands together, letting the hat fall. As it falls, the hat will start spinning. It will spin for a good 20 seconds or so. When it is done spinning, you will have perfectly coiled tassels! Tie them together and you have a perfect tassel. Repeat on the other side.

It may sound complicated, but once you start doing it it really isn't.

thank you everybbody, i just finished it and it came out pretty good for a first time at doing earflaps and tassels, so once again, thanks