Materials

• dowel or drifted wood
• cotton rope ( I used this one)
• scissors

I'll try to describe to the best of my abilities how I made all the loops, but I might be wrong with names, so if I am, let me know!

I watched this video to learn the basic knots which are lurk's head, square knot, and horizontal double half hitch knot (clove hitch) knot, but I also show it in the video that I made, so check that out.

These are the only knots that you need to know for this macrame wall hanging.

Before you start, calculate how long you want the macrame wall hanging to be. Usually, you'd need to take the thread at least 4 times longer. My original threads were about 80" and I was planning to make a 20" macrame till fringe.

I had 30 threads. You can make it as narrow or wide as you wish but for this particular design, you need to have a total count that divides by 3 and by 2. In my case, after I started with a lurk's head knot, I had 60 threads to work with (that could be divided by 3 - 20 and by 2 -30). It will be important later when we will use 3 threads at a time to make the colorful square knot rows.

These are 3 knots that we will be using in this macrame:

• Lark's head
• Horizontal double half hitch knot
• Square knot

Instructions

First row: lark's head knots all the way through.

Make a triangle using square knots

When you are done with that first wave, it's time to make square knots on the side. From right to left, I made square knots across the row till the middle. Then I went back to a chess sequence, creating this beautiful triangle.

Since all of this is very difficult to explain in text, I highly recommend watching the video. 😉

TIP: Try to keep the same strength while making knots so they come up with the same size.

How to dye cotton threads with natural dyes

So here comes my big experiment! I wanted to make this macrame wall hanging in terracotta color but didn't have any colorful threads on my hands. I also didn't have any fabric dyes. So I decided to derive natural dye and use it instead😄

I did my research and to get a nice clay color you need to dye onion peels, carrots, turmeric, and paprika also could give a desired orange effect. I decided to try onion peels first.

Perhaps, I didn't have enough peels or didn't boil it enough, but when I dropped the thread into the water, it came out with this weird beige/brown color. Not something that I wanted.

So I decided to experiment with other products to see what I could actually use to make brighter colors.

The first was Hibiscus tea, also knows as karkade tea (not shown in the photo above) and the color is amazing! I did a few dips and thought that color will fade a bit (I wanted to have different shades of one color). I had to add a bit of water, to dilute the dye and make it lighter. Here is a result. I'm satisfied.

I couldn't simply let go of my idea to have a terra-cotta/orange color, so I tried one more time - with a mix of shredded carrots, turmeric, and paprika. I think I even added leftover onion peels 😁 the more the merrier I thought. The color came out more orange than I thought it would be. Not happy, but I still used it in my wall hanging. Big mistake, since the color, faded enormously within a week and left me with some pale pathetic remaining of once orange color.

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