Hey guys, I made a layered macramé wall hanging
and here’s what I did.
I used this 3mm cord
and a 3/8” dowel.
The dowel was 28” long.
For the first layering piece,
I cut 8 pieces of cord at 4 yards.
I attached 4 of the cords to the dowel,
using a lark’s head knot.
To do this, align the ends of the cord to find the center.
Place it over the dowel,
bring the ends through the loop created and pull it tight.
Repeat this with the other cords.
Next, take the 2 center cords.
Bring the left cord over the right cord.
Use this as your holding cord.
This is the cord that you hold
while you make knots with the other cord,
which is your working cord.
Take the now left cord and make double half hitch knots
going toward the right.
To do this, make a number 4
with the left cord over the holding cord.
Bring the end through the loop created
and do this twice.
Repeat this until you reach the end of the row
and you should see a diagonal line.
Now, take the 4th cord from the left
and use that as the holding cord.
Bring it over the cord to the left of it
and make double half hitch knots going toward the left.
To do this, make a backwards 4
with the right cord over the holding cord.
Pull the end through the loop created and do this twice.
Repeat this until you reach the end of the row.
When making a double half hitch knot,
to go toward the right, form a number 4.
To go toward the left, form a backwards 4.
Next, take the 4 middle cords and make a square knot.
To do this, make a number 4 with the left cord
over the middle cords and under the right.
Bring the right cord through the loop created.
I aligned the knot
with the ends of the double half hitch knots.
Then, do the opposite.
Make a backwards 4 with the right cord
over the middle cords and under the left.
Bring the left cord through the loop created.
Take the first cord from the left
and bring it over the cord to the right of it.
Use this as your holding cord.
Now, take the left cord
and make a double half hitch knot
going toward the right.
Repeat this until you reach the center.
Then, take the first cord from the right
and bring it over the cord to the left of it.
Use this as your holding cord.
Take the now right cord
and make double half hitch knots going toward the left.
Do this until you reach the center.
Then, take the 2 cords where the diagonals meet
and make a double half hitch knot going toward the left.
This should form a v.
I made 8 sets of this.
I alternated the direction of the double half hitch knot,
at each crossover.
Next, I attached the 4 other cords to the dowel
using lark’s head knots.
Take the 2 center cords.
This time, bring the right cord over the left cord.
Use this as your holding cord.
Take the now right cord
and bring it over the cord to the left of it.
Make double half hitch knots going toward the left.
Repeat this with the rest of the row.
Repeat what you did with the first piece.
The directions should reflect each other.
To connect the 2 pieces,
I took the the right cord from the first piece
and the left cord from the second piece
and made a double half hitch knot
going toward the right.
I repeated this until I reached the crossover.
I took the 8th cord from the left
and made double half hitch knots going toward the left.
I repeated this until I reached the crossover.
I left a space between the 2 pieces.
For the left crossover,
I made 1 double half hitch knot going toward the left.
For the right crossover,
I made 1 double half hitch knot going toward the right.
Then, I made a square knot with the 4 middle cords.
Take the 5th from the left
and make a double half hitch knot
going toward the right.
Then, take the 5th cord from the right
and make a double half hitch knot going toward the left.
Repeat this until you reach the center.
With the 2 middle cords,
make a double half hitch knot going toward the right.
Next, take the 4th from the left
and make a double half hitch knot
going toward the right.
Repeat this until you reach the center.
Then, take the 4th cord from the right
and make a double half hitch knot going toward the left.
Repeat this until you reach the center.
With the 2 middle cords,
make a double half hitch knot going toward the left.
I left this layering piece alone for now
because I wanted to be sure that I had enough cord.
For the second layering piece,
I cut 6 pieces of cord at 2 yards.
I attached them to the dowel, using a lark’s head knot.
I separated them into 4 sections.
For the first row, I added a square knot
to the 2 middle sections.
For the second row,
I made alternating square knots.
To do this, take 2 cords from 1 group
and 2 cords from the group next to it.
Then, make a square knot.
I repeated this with the rest of the cords.
For the third row, leave the 2 cords from the right alone.
Then, make alternating square knots.
Skip the 2 cords from the left.
For the fourth row, make a square knot
with the 4 middle cords.
You should end up with an upside-down triangle.
I placed this in the back of first layering piece
and left it alone for now.
For the third layering piece,
I cut 4 pieces of cord at 3 yards.
I attached 2 of the cords to the dowel,
using a lark’s head knot.
I adjusted the ends of the cords,
so that the length of the 2 middle cords were 1 yard
and the length of the 2 outer cords
were the remainder of the 3 yards.
Next, I made a spiral stitch knot.
To do this, make a number 4 with the left cord
over the middle cords and under the right.
Then, pull the right cord through the loop created.
I made 50 spiral stitch knots.
Use the same cords to continue making knots
and you should start to see a spiral.
I attached the 2 other cords to the dowel,
using lark’s head knots.
Again, I adjusted the 2 middle cords to be 1 yard
and the 2 outer cords should be twice as long.
I made a spiral stitch knot.
But this time, I made a backwards 4 with the right cord
over the middle cords and under the left.
I used the same cords and did this 50 times.
You should see a spiral going in the opposite direction.
I gathered the cords together.
They each had 5 spirals.
With an extra cord, make a gathering knot.
To do this, make a u shape with the extra cord.
Group it with the rest of the cords.
Next, take the longer end
and wrap it around all the cords.
I wrapped them 6 times, going lower.
Place the end through the loop created.
Hold it down and pull the top end.
The loop should be tucked under the wrapped part.
Then, cut the ends of the cord.
I placed this in the back of the first layering piece.
Going back to the first layering piece,
I cut 32 pieces of cord at 9”.
I cut the longer cords from the layering pieces
and I used extra scrap pieces of cord
that I had from other projects.
I added 2 lark’s head knots
to the outer cord of each section.
Going back to the second layering piece,
I cut 6 pieces of cord at 30”.
I added 3 lark’s head knots
to outer cord of the bottom section.
Next, I cut 6 pieces of cord at 32”.
I added 3 lark’s head knots
to the outer cord of the middle section.
Then, I cut 6 pieces at 34”.
I added 3 lark’s head knots
to the outer cord of the top section.
I placed this in the back of the layering pieces.
For trimming, I left 3 1/2” of cord
at the ends of the first layering piece.
For the second layering piece,
I trimmed the ends to match the first layer.
I did the same for the third layer.
I ended up cutting the dowel at 22”.
To hang it, I used an extra cord.
I left extra cord at the ends,
before knotting it to both sides of the dowel.
Using a tapestry needle,
I tucked the ends under 3 cords
and shifted them to the back.
Then, I cut the extra cord.
Hang it
and your layered macramé wall hanging is done.