- Wall hangings really had their moment in the 70s.
Almost everyone has a story of their grandma
having a lot of macrame and yarny things
hanging on their walls.
And they're totally having a comeback right now.
I have so many wall hangings in my house,
at least one in every room,
and to me they're just a really fun way
to continue to play with yarn and textiles
and really bring a tactile, homemade touch into my house.
Wall hangings are a great project for beginners,
because you really don't have to have any skills at all
to make a wall hanging.
(upbeat music)
I'm Brett Bara, and this is my maker's story.
So I'm gonna show you how to make this wall hanging.
It's super easy and quick to make.
It's such a great way to add a splash of color
and texture to any room.
To make this project, you will need some yarn.
We're using Loops and Thread Charisma Tweed
in a few different colors.
You'll need large wooden beads,
these are one inch wooden beads.
A wooden dowel.
Scissors, a tapestry needle, and a medium-sized book.
We're going to start by making the tassels
for this wall hanging.
And we're going to be wrapping some yarn.
I have three balls of yarn here
that I'm holding together as one as I wrap.
That just makes the wrapping go more quickly.
If you don't have three balls of the same color,
you can just use one ball.
And I'm just gonna wrap it around this medium-sized book.
Doing about five wraps, times three strands,
is about 15 wraps total.
And then I'm just gonna cut it all along the bottom.
I'm left with a bunch of strands of yarn
that are all about the same length.
Next up, I'm going to take a long piece
of another color yarn.
Whichever portion of the wall hanging
this tassel's gonna be hanging against,
that's the color yarn I'm gonna use
for the string to hang the tassel.
We'll just loop this long piece of yarn
through the center of the tassel pieces.
Now we'll cut one more piece of yarn
that matches the tassel.
Just tie this around right here at the top,
and tie it and cinch it tight.
And then the tails of this tie can just blend in
with the tassel itself.
And finally, we'll just give it a little haircut
at the bottom to even up all the fringe.
And now the last step is we're gonna add a bead
at the top of this tassel.
So to do that, we'll thread this long blue yarn
onto a tapestry needle.
And then we'll just thread the bead on,
slide it all the way down
to the base of the tassel, and that's it.
One tassel is done, it's as easy as that,
and we'll need to make three of these total.
Now we're gonna cut all the long strands of yarn we need
to make the fringe for the wall hanging.
We need to cut six-foot lengths of yarn.
So I like to measure with my arm span.
My arm span is about five feet,
because I'm about five feet tall,
so I just stretch out the yarn like this,
and I know that that's five feet,
and then I add a little bit more, for six feet.
That's just the way I like to do it,
but if you'd rather, you could wrap your yarn
around a three foot piece of cardboard,
and then that would give you six foot lengths as well.
And then I'm just gonna measure
against what I've already cut to go ahead
and keep cutting some more lengths.
I like to use three balls of yarn at once for this,
just because it makes it go much faster,
but you could use one ball of yarn
if that's all you have on hand.
So I'm just going to go ahead and keep repeating this
to cut all the strands I need
for all three colors of this wall hanging.
Okay, I've got all my precut lengths
of six-foot pieces of yarn, I've got my tassels,
and now it's time to put it all together
and attach everything to the dowel.
So I'm going to take two strands of yarn,
I'm starting with blue,
'cause that's the center color in this design.
I'm just laying the yarn with the folded center-point,
and then I'm placing the dowel over that.
I'm gonna take the tails of the yarn,
and just draw them through the fold,
this is called a lark's head knot.
Pull it to tighten, and that's one.
Now I'm gonna add a tassel.
So I'll start with two strands of yarn,
just like I did before, and I'll grab one of my tassels.
And just place it so that its yarn strands
are in the same position with the others.
And then I'll attach it the same way,
I'll just have the folded yarn under the dowel.
And I'll just draw all of these pieces through the fold.
And there's our little tassel.
And then I'm just gonna continue attaching, in the same way,
with all three of my colors, until the dowel is filled up.
Okay, everything is assembled,
and the last step is to trim this fringe at the bottom
so that everything will be nice and even.
I'm using a straightedge and a rotary cutter.
(upbeat music)
And that's it.
So there you have it, a really quick and easy wall hanging
to brighten up any room in your house.
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