Fringe

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Fringe

Fringe
c2005 Sandra Petit, http://www.crochetcabana.com

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There are a few different ways to make fringe and lots of ways to change the look of your fringe even if you make it with the same method.

First, you need to decide how long you want your fringe to be, how thick, and of course what color and style.

What most people probably think of when they think of fringe is the simple fringe, made much like the knot you make when working latch hook rugs. On this page, I will cover basic fringe. I can only tell you how I make it. There may be other ways.

Step 1: Gather your tools -- yarn and the object you are going to use to wrap the yarn around. This can be anything you have in your house -- a piece of cardboard, remote control, PDA cover, DVD. Or a special fringing tool. The one shown is the Susan Bates Trim Tool. According to the paperwork that came with it, it can make fringe from 1 1/2" to 15", tassels, and rug yarn. I am focusing here only on general fringe. I will not go through everything this particular tool can do. There are explicit instructions on how to make the various lengths and types.

Since you are wrapping the yarn around an object, you will be getting strands twice the length, plus a small amount for the thickness of the object. However, since you double the strand to make the fringe, this evens out.

For purposes of this demonstration, I will make fringe approx. 4" using the fringe tool. I will explain how to do it with a piece of cardboard afterwards.

1) Slip the end of the yarn into the slot marked X

2) bring it to the back and up in front of the area marked A

3) Bring yarn up to point B and around the back to A again. Keep wrapping it over and over, bringing it up to B, then around back, down to A, back in front etc. Around and around until you have the number of fringe strands you need or it gets full.

4) when you've got enough strands, bring the final piece to the back and around to the X spot (no jokes about X marks the spot LOL)

5) place the strand in the X slot where the beginning strand already resides

6) Insert your scissors at A and cut the yarn across

Remove the cut strands from the trim tool and cut from skein

If you don't have a trim tool, as I said you can use anything you have around the house. To be honest, when I decided to make hair for my Nonyghan, I forgot I had bought this tool and used my remote control which was sitting right beside me.

The procedure is the same. Just wrap the yarn around the cardboard or remote or DVD or whatever and then just cut one end. You may have one strand that is smaller than the others, and you will have to cut the last piece from the skein, of course.

Now you need to get these strands on your project. I just grabbed something I was working on to illustrate. The colors won't really match, but you'll get the idea.

7) Here's the different strands I made. Notice they are different sizes because I used different means of making the fringe. This really doesn't matter as you can trim them after they've been put on the project. You'll want them all even anyway.

8) For this demo I decided to use one strand each of two colors. Fold the strands in half.

9) Insert hook from back to front in the first stitch on the row in which you want fringe. You don't actually have to do them in order. It doesn't really matter but it's easier to keep track if you're following a pattern. For example, if you're going in every other stitch. Since I am not working a pattern here, I just used any stitch.

Wrap both strands around your hook, sort of in the center of the length

10) Pull both strands through

11) Bring your hook up in front of the stitch and behind the strands in your hand. Let the strands sit on the hook.

You will notice you have four strands (two from each side since you folded your strands).

12) Grab the strands with your hook and pull all strands through loop on hook (pic 1), then tighten (pic 2)

See how the two strands are not the same length anymore? You might be able to get them to come out even, but I usually don't. I just trim them when I'm done.

Continue in same manner along the edge. If you're doing an object that needs fringe on both ends, turn it around and work that end also. Then trim them evenly. You may find you need to clip here or there after you wash it as well.

13) You don't have to use two strands. You can use one or three or more. Right to left, here you see the trimmed green and buff, then a single strand blue, then double greens, then 3 strands green, blue, and buff.

14) Here are all strands trimmed to the same length.

You can put strands in every stitch, in every other stitch, or however you want to do it. For the Nonyghans, I used fringe for the hair and went into every other stitch.

Here's a picture of a project using fringe. I made these strands 5" length and trimmed them afterwards.

09/04/2006

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