Tutorial for Thursday 1

 

Welcome to first post in Tutorial for Thursday series!

 

In today's post I will show you how to start a macrame form.

Starting a macrame form

 

There are many ways to start a macrame form. When starting a new one it is good to think about which way is the most convenient for us.

This time I will show you how to start a macrame when we want to attach it to something from the beginning. It can be a metal ring, e.g. when we are making earrings or a handbag frame. We can also attach many shorter strings to one longer, e.g. upper part of my autumn collar is made in such a way.

To exercise the knot we will need a thing to which the macrame will be attached and string (for starters a thicker one will be better). I used a barbecue stick to attach my macrame.

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Let's start!

1. Fold the string in half. Put the top on the stick.

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2. Put the arc-shaped top under the stick.

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3. Protract both ends of the string through the arc.

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4. Tighten the string.

In such a way the string is well attached and we get two endings to work.

If we wish to work with larger number of strings we add them with exactly the same method.

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5. On this picture you can see how I used this knot while making earrings.

I used 4 strings which I attached to the ring. Then I knotted with vertical double half hitch pattern, which I will for sure show in futher posts :).









So as we now know how to start a macrame, in the next Tutorial for Thursday we will proceed to learning basic knots, that is the square knot and the spiral knot