Hello people, This week on the show
it's all about gifts we make ourselves. I'm making two different gifts
on this week's episode - tassels and apricot cherry cordial fruit sauce.
Tassels are very simple to make. You'll need:
Yarn in different colors
A card that's about an inch longer than the length of your finished tassel
Scissors
A latch hook or crochet hook
Start by winding your yarn around
the card until you have a good hank of it collected. Cut off the tail
and slide the hank off the card keeping the center open. Then reel off a
good long piece of matching or contrasting yarn - at least 4 feet - and
double it twice and twist it until it starts coiling back on itself.
Grasp the center between your teeth and fold it in half and let it twist
into a cord. Tie it in a loop and loop it through the center of your
yarn hank making sure the knot is lost among the yarn in the hank and
pull it tight. Tie matching or contrasting yarn tightly around the top
of your hank close to the hanging loop and then begin to wrap it around
snugly until you have about a half inch of it evenly girdling the
tassel. Cut and then tie the end of the yarn to the tail left when you
first tied the yarn on the tassel, then with your hook pull the tails up
under the wrapped yarn.
Apricot Cherry Cordial Fruit Sauce is quite simple as well. You'll need:
1 cup dried apricots cut in quarters
½ cup sugar
10 oz jar maraschino cherries
1 cup vodka
Combine the apricots, sugar and
cherries with their juice in your blender until well blended, then add
the vodka and blend again. Remove the mixture to a jar and let marinate,
inverting the jar regularly, for two weeks or until all the sugar is
dissolved. Present in a tall pointy bottle with a white pompon on the
cork to create a Santa hat.
Here are a few other projects that are perfect for holiday gift giving:
