BACK WITH MACRAME!!!

salute amies, ;P
well hope that French was right. :D... if not, do correct me.. ;)

back with some fun DIYs i tried of macrame, braiding and knotting and lot more that is going around.

here it is, 

traffic lights inspired color ways -macrame bangles

macrame earphone strings

Macrame owl key chain

DIY Dream catcher 

macrame dream catcher.
traffic lights inspired

Dream Catcher( bigger size)

CUP Phone stand

play around with some colourful macrame bombs ;)

key chain

Macrame-it butterfly

Braiding Mesh

Macrame ball

Macrame bracelets

Macrame necklace




i did pretty well. ooo yeah!!!!.... ;p
it was fun making all of these.

go ahead, make some of your own cool stuff..
will get back soon, with some more diys and cooler things to do. ;)

saionara. stay fun.

MACRAME , BRAIDING and KNOTTING

MACRAME??? do you remember those play school days when we used to make friendship bracelets. Well that is how i understand macrame to be.
In the textbook manner, Macrame is a form of textile- making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting.
BRAIDING ... girls know it very well but with various other techniques, girls, you may make your hair look amazing. Now you've certainly got new up-dos to try on ;)

lets go back to the memory of our school days and explore the beautiful technique of macrame. By this statement i don't mean just the bracelets. with the help of the variations of macrame and knotting one can create anything.

Intertwined square knot braid

Double knotted half hitch chain

Knotted edge chain

Variation  techniques used:

1. cavandali
2. Half hitch

variation  techniques used:

1. collecting knot
2. mounting knot

Variation techniques used:

1. half hitch 
2. flat knot
3. diagnol cording

Variation techniques used:

1. 4 strand braid
2. flat knot(macrame)

8 strand flat braid or KUMIHUMO (Japenese traditional braiding)

exploration of MACRAME + BRAIDING
techniques used in it

1. 8 strand braid 
2. simle square knot
3. closed mesh alternated flat knots

                                               

                                                           Half Hitch

3 strands braid

circular braid

Square Braid

9 strand braid

8 Strand Braid


OO la la ... with colourful yarns these techniques seem to tempt me to create something out of it.
well then, it is decided... next post is surely going to be some of my explorations and products made out of  macrame, knotting and braiding.
till then saionara. stay fun. ;)

Tablet Weaving

Being creative, an explorer, an adventurer and a sportsperson too, getting bound to a particular area of working, isn't my style.I tend to change my place of work. Craft is quite an hobby as well as an academic requirement for me, but weaving takes a lot of what i don't like(as mentioned above). 

yeah, seems i have said quite a lot about myself than what i was suppose to talk about in this blog. well, then here we go. Let me introduce you the technique of Card Weaving, which does lie in my style. 

Card weaving, as the name suggests,is to do weaving using cards. It is also known as tablet weaving.The cards could be made up of any material whether cardboard , plastic or playing cards itself. The cards have holes in them, by which they act as sheds through which the warp threads are passed.The cards could be of any regular polygon.

STEPS TO TABLET WEAVING  

This is how i modified and set up my own tablet weaving
 loom in my classroom.

yes,one can weave on two sides at the same time.

If you are using white threads, like i did, you may go for dying or coloring
 the threads to give aesthetics to your weave.

pass the weft threads through on both the sides of the cards.

rotate the cards in the diretion according to the weave
you are going to use for your design.

after the cards are rotated, weave again and then rotate the tablets or the cards.
 Then, continue the process to get a beautifully weaved samples.

                                                 

 interesting?... why don't you find it out by trying it yourself.

will you bring you up with more interesting crafts to try on, soon.

saionara, stay fun.