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Hi. This Megan with Beadaholique.com. Today I'm going to show you how to
finish off macrame knotting.
What you'll need to finish off your macrame knotting are
either scissors or in this case I'm going to use flush cutters
because
my waxed cord has a little plastic cord. It's a little hard to cut through. They'll also let
you get aright up next to the knot.
You can also use scissors if you prefer or if using
a softer cord
and then you'll need a little bit of glue, I like to use E6000
and that is going to keep your knot from coming undone.
So what you'll do when you're done knotting your cord as far as you want.
You're gonna flip the piece over to the back side
and then you're going to tie a square knot.
Just a regular knot
with just the two outside strands of cord and not onto the inside cord.
You want to
tie your knot in the way that lays flat. So
as far as which side of the strand goes under and which side goes over.
Just try both to see which ones is going to lay nice and flat.
So
go ahead and tie the knot tight to make sure it's gonna lay flat
and then what you're going to do
is
put a little bit of
E6000
onto a post-it note or scratch paper or something you could throw away later.
Then you can use any kind of
toothpick
for an applicator and I'm going to use a little piece of wire that's just
a scrap.
You're going to go ahead and loosen the knot just slightly
and try to get
a gap
in the cords between the two pieces of the knot
and you take just a dab
of E6000 on your applicator
and try to work it
right into the
cords of the knot.
Then you tighten up your knot.
You should be able to see the glue
in the middle of the knot.
You can go ahead and spread it out a little bit
just make sure that
it's really on
the cords that are knotted.
You're going to want to let
this dry
for at least an hour before you move on
and then ultimately
give it a good final drying period
of about twenty four hours before you wear it.
So once your E6000
is dry,
at least
partially dry, so go ahead and let it dry for about an hour before you move on
you're going to want to trim the ends of the knot off
and like I said
flush cutters are really good because you can get right up the edge of the knot
without cutting
the rest of the knot work
or you could use scissors if like.
What you're going to do
is try to cut
the end as close as possible to the knot work being very careful not to cut the
rest of the knot work.
If you're using a cord that will unravel or fray
you might want to go ahead and use the applicator to dab a little bit of the
E6000 on the ends as well so that they don't come undone.
Otherwise you're ready to let this dry
at least twenty four hours and go ahead and wear it. You can see that from the
front side it looks nice and clean and finished.
From the back side it's just a little
discrete knot.
That's how you finish off you're macrame knotting both for
that body of the work and for if you do a macrame sliding knot clasp which
you can see how to do that in another video as well.
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