Another item added to the list of
the completed projects – this charming little Tassel Vandyked in Two Colours
from Wedon’s Practical Knitter, Number 109, Twenty-Seventh Series, (1895). It
is also published in Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 10, Interweave
Press, 2004.
The object is two-layered, with the
fairly substantial tassel sewn under the outer “cover” knit in “a series of
vandykes,” a slanted and openwork stitch. I followed the final instructions of
adding a “gold chain of gold thread…at the top to hang it by” (a kntted i-cord)
but omitted the addition of “tiny silk pompoms” to the chain since I don’t
really like pompoms.
The suggested colours are red and
white but “any preferred tint” may also be used in an unspecified weight of
cotton thread. I choose DMC Mouliné Spécial 25 embroidery floss in 902
(burgundy) and 3820 (gold) on 2.25mm/US 1 double pointed needles.
The needle size is also unspecified
beyond “four steel needles” which, in this era, would be fine ones although larger
tassels could be knit with coarser
(larger), as they used to say, needles for ones for home decoration. The pattern ends with the comments that
this tassel could “be made up into
an excellent penwiper for a bazaar if the cover is made in coloured silks and
the strands of coarse black twist.” Since I have made several penwipers in this
style, I opted, instead, for a tassel that might be used for a small curtain
cord.
The finished tassel measures 3” long
and 2” wide, the cover is 4” long and 1” wide, flat, and the i-cord chain is 3”
long around.
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