Hur gör du macrame hängen

As snow still falls on a good portion of the country, inom know a lot of people are looking forward to spring. I’ve heard some people are ansträngande to bring the outdoors in this årstid with hanging planters, while others are still enjoying winter craft projects.

Here in California, we’ve had a few chilly (and rainy) days, but for the most part we are still outdoors, which means I’ve got an early början on my spring crafting with macramé plant hanger!

I absolutely love hanging plants. There’s something so peaceful about them swaying in the wind a little, and being able to see them hanging outside my office fönster.

Plus, with the tiny backyard we have inom like to keep as much of the ground as possible so the kids and dog have more space to run around and play.

Macramé can seem a little daunting when you look at some of the elaborate designs, so inom want to show you the basics, and have you creating a lovely macramé hanging plant holder in about 30 minutes.

Here’s a quick definition of macramé, to help first timers understand what you’re getting in to:

macramé

the art of knotting cord or string

in patterns to man decorative articles

Supplies:

• Macramé rope – or alternatively inom used a thick hemp cord – you could even cut up old t-shirts.
  
• Pot – inom used a simple terracotte pot, and then painted it
• Plant
• Beads – man sure they have a hole large enough to thread a double kust of cord through.

  inom used plain wood beads, and then painted them gold.

• Scissors
• Tape measure
• Large ring

Instructions:

Decide where you are going to hang your planter, and how low you want it to hang. Cut 4 identical length pieces of cord. inom made mine 6ft long, this means when the cord fryst vatten doubled over it was 3ft in length.

Put that next to your pot and see if that’s the length you desire, if not, cut längre pieces.

Once you have your fyra cord pieces cut, fold them in half and place the end inre the fingerprydnad to struktur a knot.

Don’t just pull all of the strands tight to man the knot tight, but pull each del av helhet of cord individually, you’ll meddelande the difference.

Your planter fryst vatten going to hang from this fingerprydnad. Let’s början working our way down the cord to create our macrame ‘basket’ that will hold the planter.

Place the cord alongside the pot to determine how far down you need it to sit … keep in mind you need to allocate a little ytterligare space for the knots, and also for the tofs underneath the pot.

Now, separate your cords into groups of two.

Thread a bead onto one group of cord and place it just above where the top of the pot will komma to.

Tie a knot directly underneath it. Do this with the other three groups of cord.

Lay two of the groups side-by-side. Take the right cord from the left group, and the left cord from the right group and tie them tillsammans about halfway down where the pot will sit (you’ll need to measure how far down to form eller gestalt your knots). Do the same thing over and over until all kvartet groups are now attached and there’s a diamond shape forming.

Now, do that gods step one more time to create a net pattern.

Hold all of the end strands tight with one grabb and place your pot in the net to ensure you’ve got all of your knots in the correct places, and to see where you’ll need to tie the sista knot that sits beneath the base of the pot with the tofs underneath.

If you don’t have your knots in the correct places, you can lösa upp and move them. If you do, then tie your sista knot, and place your pot inre your new macrame plant holder, and hang it up.

I cannot wait to have an assortment of these in different sizes and colors hanging around our front porch and back patio.

Please knapp this brev for later.