I am not a fan of tassels. Yes, they look nice all laid out and arranged, but mostly they tangle and catch on things. But I’m fairly sure that Grandma followed pattern instructions and would have put the tassels on. And I have a whole extra skein since I used scraps to sew the borders. So it seems the blanket is meant to have tassels. (It really was a deliberate choice to start the last three sentences with conjunctions. This was a difficult decision and each step needed the full stop.)

I started making the tassels from the outside of the skein, then the inside of the skein turned out to be kinked, so some of the tassels were smooth, and some were wrinkly. Steamer to the rescue.

As per the instructions, I made a second row of knots, then trimmed the ends.

It is done. I’ll do the final reveal on tomorrow’s blog, with a summary of the whole project.