Finished hanging DIY cat bed

Willy happily modeled the DIY cat bed for you. He loves the attention when I take photos of him. So cute!

Here you can see the hanging cat bed with my other macrame projects like the hoop and basket macrame plant hanger, my modern green macrame wall hanging, and my macrame planter sleeve that the fiddle leaf fig is in. You can see it better in some of the photos below. You can also check out my DIY black and white curtains.

Willy loves sitting in his new macrame cat bed so he can watch the front of the house and all the birds.

Finished and hanging macrame light fixture

I think there is a slight victorian vibe to the macrame light that goes happily with my great-grandmother’s portrait, don’t you think so?

And here is a close-up:

The shadows when the light is on are pretty awesome too:

And if you don’t feel like making your own, there are some ready-made macrame light fixtures on Etsy that can be hung as a flush mount light as well:

purrfectly cute DIY cat bed using macrame cord

This DIY cat bed was a true evolution from a differently planned project to the outcome which I will get to in a bit. I have been wanting to make a hanging DIY cat bed for our dining room window because the windowsill is so small and the cats love sitting there to watch the birds that nest in our shutters. We don’t have enough room for a cat tree though, so a hanging macrame bed was my idea for solving this problem and this hanging DIY cat bed is actually pretty similar to my simple macrame plant hanger This DIY cat bed was a true evolution from a differently planned project to the outcome which I will get to in a bit. I have been wanting to make a hanging DIY cat bed for our dining room window because the windowsill is so small and the cats love sitting there to watch the birds that nest in our shutters. We don’t have enough room for a cat tree though, so a hanging macrame bed was my idea for solving this problem and this hanging DIY cat bed is actually pretty similar to my simple macrame plant hanger This DIY cat bed was a true evolution from a differently planned project to the outcome which I will get to in a bit. I have been wanting to make a hanging DIY cat bed for our dining room window because the windowsill is so small and the cats love sitting there to watch the birds that nest in our shutters. We don’t have enough room for a cat tree though, so a hanging macrame bed was my idea for solving this problem and this hanging DIY cat bed is actually pretty similar to my simple macrame plant hanger.

square knots

You now have 24 Lark’s Head Knots tied onto the pole and 48 individual cords hanging. To follow the instructions correctly, you need to understand the following key. While knotting, try to keep each horizontal row even, and always go from left to right. To make a proper Square Knot, see the tutorial here.

1. Start with 1st cord: 12K(starting with 1st individual cord from the left, tie 12 Square Knots)
2. Start with 3rd cord: 11K (starting with 3rd individual cord from the left, tie 11 Square Knots)
3. Start with 5th cord: 4K – S8 – 4K
4. Start with 7th cord: 3K – S12 – 3K
5. Start with 9th cord: 2K – S16 – 2K
6. Start with 11th cord: 1K – S8 – 1K – S8 – 1K
7. Start with 9th cord: 2K – S16 – 2K
8. Start with 7th cord: 3K – S12 – 3K
9. Start with 5th cord: 4K – S8 – 4K
10. Start with 3rd cord: 5K – S4 – 5K
11. Start with 1st cord: 12K
12. (Begin this row about 4″ lower than the previous row.) Start with 5th cord: 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K
13. (Begin this row about 3″ lower than the previous row.) Start with 2nd cord: 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2 – 1K – S2
14. (Begin this row about 3″ lower than the previous row.) Start with 1st cord: 12K
15. (Begin this row about 3″ lower than the previous row.) Start with 3rd cord: 11K