[Nfb-krafters-korner] macrame purse or other projects

[Lindy van der Merwe]

Hi Cathy,
Thanks for thinking of teaching this. I would love to learn how to make
other things using macrame.
I am wondering if there are techniques to join the macrame strands together
to make things like a table mat, for instance?
I have just experimented with making chains using only my fingers, with some
fabric strips and then trying to join the chains together to make a round
table mat or coaster. The chains came out ok, but I struggled to find a way
to join the chains. It was difficult to get my joining stitches uniform so
they would look like a pattern, and to hide the knots where I had to use a
new fabric strip. I also tried a square mat, but it was fairly difficult to
keep the chains straight and the same length.
Someone bought the fabric strips for me. It was already cut into strips that
were tied together at the ends and rolled into a ball and it is slightly
stretchy, so maybe it might be possible to get a better result using macrame
and string?
I'm just wondering if you or others have come across other things to make
with macrame?
I have tried making a photo frame, but have had limited success with where
one has to make the turns to form, say, a square frame.
Thanks.
Lindy


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Sent: 01 September 2014 02:46 AM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] do you want a macramé purse class?

Hello all,

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable Labor Day weekend. I have been working
on my macramé purse and that is coming out well. The purse looks as though
it will be around 10 inches by 12 inches, and It’s a rather long project and
would probably take a month of classes, so not sure if I should teach it or
not. what is you're feeling about it?

Speaking of macramé, the coin purse is not going to be available as a class,
because my friend was not successful at creating a pattern using a small
purse frame. 

There are other possibilities of project that I can teach, something quicker
to make if you folks would prefer that.

<groan> I had to rip out the scarf I was looming because I found two errors
in it after I'd knitted twelve inches. My friends said not to worry about
it, no one would notice. My reply was that I would know and I had noticed.
So, it's back to the beginning on that one. I may use this scarf and take
the hooded scarf class and make this figure eight scarf into a hooded scarf.
hmm, we shall see.
Cathy



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