Tutorial Macrame bands By Stefan. Back to Tutorials.

This tutorial is supposed to teach you how to make macrame bands in

different styles. They can be used as bracelets, belts, or just for

decoration. Under each image I will indicate what knot you need to make the band.

Reversed half-hitches. Square knots.

Square knots. Hitches.

Double Hitches. Hitches.

Square knots.

Tutorial Bookmark

You'll need yarn in three colours; here I've used black, yellow and red.

You'll need 3 yellow, 6 red and 1 black. They should be at least 120cm of

length and folded on the middle so they are 60 cm when you start tying.

Start to put up some threads using the black thread, lark heads, as the

picture below show. Observe that you need to do this on the middle of

every thread. Also observe the order of colours.

Make two square knots in the middle of the red thread groups.

Make double half-hitches of the yellow pairs of threads. No difference in

witch direction.

Keep on making double half-hitches until the yellow threads meet again

(the outer yellow threads will meet the black ones).

Make square knots of the red groups again.

Make some reversed half-hitches with the outer black threads on both

sides.

Continue with the yellow ones until they meet again. Make square knots of the red thread groups as before. Then make reversed half-hitches with

the black threads again.

Tie two double half-hitches of the outer red thread pairs. Then tie

reversed half-hitched of the black threads. As you'll see, this should be made every second knot. Now you should be able to continue by yourself.

Tie red square knots, double half-hitches of the yellow and reversed of

the black.

Finish the book mark by making a row of black half-hitches, moving

towars the middle with the outer black threads. Stop when they meet.

Tutorial Finishing a macrame

work

To pick a method of finishing a macrame work can often be difficult. Of

course, you could just leave the macrame work as it is when it feels like it

is done, but sometimes it looks nicer to make something special at the end. Sometimes you also need to fasten the strings somewhere so they

loosen your knots and ruin the rest of your work. Here are some of the

techniques I often use.

Overhand knot

With this simple knot, most macramé works can be finished in a decorative and durable way.

Bunch the strings together

Bunch the threads together using square knots. Make a square knot out

of the three or four knots in the middle of the "bunch" of strings, then take the six inner knots, then 8 etc. You will get a col effect out of this.

Simple finishing with square

knots

Finishing off with a normal square knot can look nice. If the strings are

stiff, the outer strings will be in the outward direction.

Bunch together with square

knots

[p]This is not much difference from the previous example, but here we

have less stiff strings - and more of them. It is just one black square knot

on top of many other strings.

Half-hitch spiral end

I made this ring by tying square knots on a metal ring. When I reached

around, there were some threads left. I decided to make a simple half-hitch spiral out of them.

Finishing with double half-

hitches

The work can be ended in fringes. A row of double half-hitches can make

the strings go out the same direction, giving a nice looking effect.