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Here's a pattern I would love to have. Awesome! (According the the text on Flickr, these were deck dining chairs and the webbing was coming off. The owner cut it off, painted them and then they macramed the rest).
A solor light holder
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Remember Macrame?
I used to spend a lot of time on macrame projects back when it was a fad. Since then I've given all my projects away (including a skeleton that used to hang on my classroom door. I can't find an image that I can post here, but here's a link to what it looked like). I've forgotten how to make all the knots, but I recently came across some of the cord I used to make projects, so I decided to see if anyone was still doing anything with macrame or if it was a dead craft. Here are some of the images (yes, it appears to still be around, although...the majority of the newer projects I see are bracelets, as opposed to planters and wall hangings).
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I have a wine bottle with a macrame covering that my son made in Primary School. I always wondered where the teachers got all the wine bottles from.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, Mary. I'm guessing you don't wonder any longer, LOL.
ReplyDeleteI didn't macrame, but I hooked two rugs for myself before I got married, and my son decided 11 years later, at 4 years of age, that they were both his. He still has one of them in his room, now 23 years later. I've had to cut off the edges several times so it is smaller, but hey, I made it, he likes it, and it's staying there. The other rug is folded up in my closet, waiting to go in the "guest room" once a kid finally moves out - hopefully while we still live in a house, rather than a retirement or nursing home, LOL. Yup, they called me the Happy Hooker. I wonder why.
Mary, LOL on wondering where the wine bottles came from (but a very good point. I have an image stuck in my head of teachers guzzling wine now, simply because they needed the bottles)!
ReplyDeleteElaine, I envy you the determination and patience it takes to hook rugs. I made one once, it took me forever, and by the time I finished it (years later, because I kept putting it down), I didn't want to look at it anymore. LOL (Actually, it wasn't that pretty, anyway). I'd love to see a picture of one of yours.
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