Hi. I read the Tread "My birthday present" and posted a few of my macrame projects there. Then I decided to make my own tread. Some of these will be repeats from that tread.

After I had children and was a stay at home mom, I started making plant hangers and other things with macrame. I still have cord, macrame books, bead, metal rings, and other accessories. Not sure if my crooked, arthritis fingers is a result of pulling the knots tight, but I don't think I could make anything these days. But you never know, I may just give it a try.

Here are some of my ordinary plant hangers that I made from patterns that I made for my self, and others and some that I sold.

These first 5 were for my DMIL and were taken in her kitchen.




These next ones were either given away or were sold.





This is a hanging picture frame.


Easter cross.


Wind chime.


The only owl I ever made.


Please feel free to add any photos of your macrame creations. I will be adding more soon.

Here is a Rosary that I made.


I made several of these lions.


This one is called Josephine. (The knot used is a Josephine Knot.) My dad's name was Joseph (Joe). I made this while I stayed with my parents to help mom take care of dad when he had cancer. He passed away in 1984.

I can't believe how intricate some of your knotting is. I'm just gobsmacked Jeanne. Beautiful Work!

Since most of your work was done before computers, did you have books for all these patterns? Make them up yourself?

Google wasn't around in the 80's, right?

Thanks Vic. I used books (more like a magazine) with different patterns in them. I will take a picture of several of the magazines. I always wanted to make my own pattern and did change some of them in different ways.

Here are some for your bathroom.

Towel rack


Toothbrush/tooth paste holder



For the nursery








For a kids room

You sure did a wonderful job, such nice pieces!

Thank you for the acorn, @bumplbea.

Jeanne all your works of art are all professional grade macrame . Even during the macrame craze did I ever see so many Beautiful designs as yours. Lots of that in calif.they were everywhere.


I wish I still had some of mine they have been lost thru many moves.

Jeanne all your works of art are all professional grade macrame . Even during the macrame craze did I see so many Beautiful designs.

I wish I still had some of mine they have been lost thru many moves.

I bought this little 20 page booklet of various Macrame ideas & instructions from a thrift store a long time ago with the intention of learning how to make Macrame plant hangers. I hated the thought of them being lost forever when the booklet became unreadable so I posted most of it on my blog. If I knew how to put it here I would.

Can you post us a link to your blog? I see your blog info in your tagline and there is a way to make it clickable but I'm not sure I know how to do that.

If you post on Ask A Question - or Site Talk - I'm sure someone could help you.

I can barely operate my cell phone:rofl: but will try to see if I can forward it.
https://garden.org/blogs/entry...

@Kathy547 That looks just like one of my books. I have a lot of Macrame books from "way back then". I still have rings, beads, cord, and etc. I have arthritis in my hands so bad, I will never macrame again. I was hoping that one of my family would but sadly no one is interested. Too bad I wasn't closer to you. If you do make something, I look forward to seeing pictures of it.

You did it perfectly Thank You so much!

Jeanne - same with my hands, they don't work like they used to

Love love love the plant hangers. I have one my brother did several years ago that I'm trying to dig out of storage. I also have another I got from a peddler's mall that was HUGE. Have to get a ladder to hang that one as I only have one overhang where it would fit.