Owl Friendship Bracelet

Here's a cute pattern for an Owl Friendship Bracelet from the Friendship Bracelets website - I would, of course, change the colors so I could create a row of Harry Potter's Hedwigs, but that's just me.

Macrame + Rhinestones = Sweeeet!

Here's a link to a cool video on Youtube on how to make a macrame bracelet using a strand of linked rhinestones...sweeeeet!

Off to Grad School...

Okay, you say to yourself, what is with this woman? How come she is so lazy and never posts anything new anymore? Well, I do admit, I am lax with blogging upkeep these days, but I do have a good excuse: I am moving from the Seattle area to New York in a few weeks and have been busy packing, throwing things away, and generally sorting out my life as I get ready to go to graduate school.
Yup. I have decided to return to college to get an MFA in Dramaturgy. Cough! Drama - what??? Let's just say it involved theatre arts; I began working in the theatre when I was a teeny bopper and it has always been a part of my life. I am just taking a couple of years off from the corporate world to have a go at studying theatre. The older I get the shorter life gets, and life is simply too short not to have fun!
I have also begun working on jewelry pieces for a new micro-macrame book and posting some of them on my Facebook page now and then.
What would you like to see in a new book of micro-macrame projects? More earrings or necklaces? Collars for pet tigers? Let me know.

Chinese Button Animation

Here's an animation on how to create a Chinese button a.k.a. A Turk's Head knot
While they are sometimes available at places like Michael's or Shipwreck Beads, I've often resorted to making them myself by intertwining DMC embroidery floss around two strands of C Lon cording like these:


The "Rooster of Love" sits on a handmade Chinese knot made of DMC floss, the Dreamy Mermaid's resting place is a store bought knot found at a Michael's, and the Mouse is perched on a handmade Chinese knot.

Pretty Macrame Earrings Tutorial from Brazil

Hello! I'm back after a long unexpected hiatus. As some of you may know I also work in IT for a rather large software company and have recently completed two contracts at said rather large software company. Unfortunately, working in IT takes all my creative energy these days so I have had no time to pursue my artistic side. Didja miss me? Prolly not.

Anyhoo, here's a lovely 6 minute tutorial on making macrame earrings from Elfaria Arts in Brazil.

Getting Your Knickers in a Twist

A while back Chain Creative blog featured a photo of some paper samurai underwear knotted with Solomon knots. She had visited the Antwerp Museum of Fashion which had an exhibition on paper clothing last year.
The Solomon knot is used in both macrame and crochet; we macramers usually refer to it as a square knot or flat knot.

Galit Mastai has Aritzia All Tied Up!

Galit Mastai was busy last year creating macrame installations for Aritzia stores across Canada and the US

From Making Macramé with Aritzia by Galit Mastai:

Here's a bit about one of the projects that kept me busy in 2009.... I was enlisted by the Store Design team at Artizia, to make 70 huge, 1970's-inspired Macramé wall hangings for 6 new Aritzia stores that opened across Canada and the USA, namely Victoria, Edmonton, London and Toronto in Canada and Portland, Oregon and Short Hills, New Jersey.