Hey fellow blog followers!
Thanks for visiting my post this week. 🙂
I was beyond excited to dive into this week’s project! I have always wanted to learn how to make a macramé plant hanger.
I have a little secret to share… I’m OBSESSED with plants, and this creation fits perfectly in my home.
Are you a plant lover like me? What’s your favourite indoor plant?
What I learned
Knots, Knots, and more Knots, yes that is correct! If you have been following along with my macramé learning journey you will be familiar with the knots I have used in the past in order to make my plant hanger.
I used the following knots:
- Gathering Knot (green cord)
- Spiral Knot (middle cord)
- Square knot (left cord)
It’s crazy how many macramé creations you can make once you have the basic knots mastered! Take me, for an example. I have created multiple projects using the same basic knots I learned on day one.
I followed a blogger by the name of Katrina Johnston. Her blog post was titled How To Make A Macrame Plant Hanger (For Beginners).
Katrina Johnstons blog was super helpful, even though it didn’t provide me with a step-by-step video, it included in-depth step-by-step written instructions with photos that matched each explanation. It was very easy to follow! This could also be related to all the practice I have been doing with my previous creations… You could say I am becoming a bit of a macramé expert! 😉
To begin the project I had to cut my cord to the correct length loop it onto the wooden circle. Making sure to have the cord in the correct order from short-long-short-etc
I proceeded by creating a gathering knot, which was demonstrated in my previous blogs. Here is a refresher.
Before bringing the creation of my knots I had to group my cord into four groups each with 2 long and 2 short cords. Then I proceeded by creating a series of spiral and square knots and finally completing my very first plant hanger!
Finally, I created a small set of square knots measured downward and created another set of square knots. To complete the last step I used a gathering knot and cut off the extra cord.
TADAAA…. A completed macramé plant hanger 🙂
What do you think of my plant hanger? Would you like to learn?
Resource Reflection
I do have to say I enjoyed this resource! If I were to use this style of instruction the first couple weeks, I definitely would have struggled. But now that I have practiced macramé over the past couple of weeks, following a project using just pictures and written explanations is much easier to follow. Which makes me happy:)
Strengths
- Clear, descriptive step by step explanations
- Multiple images for each explained step
- Each step was numbered, making it easy to follow
- She used bolded headings organizing the instructions
- Measurements for the cord
Limitations
- no video provided (this can be a limitation for extreme newbies)
What are your thoughts on my resource? Would you be comfortable using it?
Future Plans
I plan on reflecting on my overall learning project as it has come to the end of the semester.
See you next week!
5 Comments
Kallie
Hey Mackenzie,
Your hanging plant project turned out so well!! To answer your question at the start, I really don’t know too much about plants but I really want to start learning more and get some for my new house! It looks like you found a really good source to learn from this week. That always makes it a lot easier. I fully agree with you on the instruction though. I learn best through videos so I could see how a beginner could struggle. Great work this week!
Mackenzie Evans
Hi Kallie,
Thanks for your response and kind words! Yes, you will definitely have to do some plant researching, there are many plants that help with proving you clean air and adding a macramé plant hanger to your new house would look absolutely amazing. Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂
Mackenzie
Grace
Hey Mackenzie,
I would like to say that I think you got this blogging thing down. Your invitation and closing in your blog sounds like you have been doing this forever! Also amazing work on your macrame plant pot. You should definitely start an Etsy page because I would be your first customer. You’re crushing it!
Grace
Abdurrahman A
Hey Mackenzie!
I really do kindly appreciate that you provide various forms of media within this blog post. I really appreciate how you demonstrated both multiple videos and photos throughout the post to showcase your learning and skills. Thank you kindly for doing so.
Another component that I appreciate within this blog post, is the following sentences that you stated below:
“I used the following knots:
Gathering Knot (green cord)
Spiral Knot (middle cord)
Square knot (left cord)”
I appreciate the above stated sentences from you, Mackenzie, because beside each bracket, you provided a hyperlink to (gathering knot, spiral knot, and square not). This is very beneficial because as the viewer, it is quite useful and easier for me to follow along.
Thank you for sharing Mackenzie. I really appreciate it.
– Muhammad
Kaelin Krukoff
Your plant hanger turned out so good! I love seeing your week-to-week knot-tying growth. I completely agree that having strong visuals and clear written steps makes a big difference once you’re more confident with the basics. Anyways, great job, and again, the hanger looks awesome.