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Hi. This Megan from Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to
make a macrame style square knot.
This is the most basic of the macrame knots.
You can use it for all kinds of applications and including the
really popular shamballa style bracelets
that are around right now.
So you can use any kind of quarter string to make the knot.
I'm using a waxed cotton cord.
I'm using two different colors just so you can kind of keep track of
the core center strand
and then the outside strands.
So when you start your going to take
all three of your strands
and
make an overhand knot on the top.
Just to hold them together. Don't pull them too tight because you will undo that at the
end
for finishing your work.
When you knot
these types of knots, you're always going to have one strand of your cord that runs
down the center.
and then two that run down the outside and these are the ones you're going to
knot, the outside ones.
So
what you do
is you're going to take
the left cord
and place it over the center cord
and then take the right cord and place it over
the left cord
pull it under the center cord and through the left loop.
Oe way to remember it is it's over, over, under, through.
And you pull it tight
and pull on both sides of the outside cords
evenly
and make sure that you also
bring some tension on the middle cord
so that
it doesn't get bunched up.
To make your knot square so that it lines up nice and flat
you're gonna get opposite for the second half of the knot.
So you're going to take the left cord under the center cord,
the right cord under the left cord,
bring it over the center and through the left loop.
So just like the first half was over, over, under through, this one is under,
under, over, through.
I will sit there and say that to myself as I do it. It helps you keep track
in your head.
Whatever works.
So go ahead and pull it tight
and you can see
that shape right there under the overhand knot, that's what the square knot look
like.
If you just keep going
over
under, through.
Under.
Bring that one under the left
over the center
through the loops
and pull it tight.
As you can see what it ends up
doing is forming this nice
uniform
flat wide band
like a knotted braid
and you can make
bracelets out of just the knotting or
in the Shamballa style bracelets
you take a bead
and it could be any kind of bead. The Pave style beads are really popular. This
is a Beadelle
pave style bead.
You just wanna make sure when you're choosing beads that you choose a bead with a
large enough hole
to fit over
your cord.
To insert a bead you just
thread the bead onto your center strand
and then you're gonna make the knot just like you
did up here
but below the bead. So make sure your bead's all the way up
so pull the bead al the way up. Take the left strand
and bring it over the center strand and below the bead
bring the right stand
over the left strand
under the center strand
and through the loop
and then just pull it tight
with the side
strands going to either side of the bead.
When you do the second half of the square knot going under
under
over and through
it will kind of lock it in place.
That is how you put a bead on there
and that's how you do
a square knot for macrame
and then
to learn how to finish off
the knotting
there's actually a separate video for that
and that video is called how to finish off macrame knotting. So check that out
to see how to finish it off
so that you can
have it secure.
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