Three Decorative Braids with Macrame

Try these three new braids to create some beautiful patterns; a simple genoese bar worked alternately, a tatted bar using a half hitch and reverse half hitch and a treble genoese bar using groups of three half hitches. These new braids can be made into key rings and kits are available on the website. Macrame Kit Try these two macrame techniques to create some stunning knotted key rings. The ‘Half Square Knot’ gives you a beautiful spiralling pattern, try out mixing a matching contrasting colours or similar tones. The ‘Square Knot’ which gives you a lovely flat worked bar with one colour becoming visible in the centre and the other colour sits along the outside, turn it over and the colours are reversed. The Macrame Kit contains everything you need to create ten mini works of art to share or make with family and friends, you will find ten Clasps and twenty long lengths of 3mm macrame cotton cord in a range of beautiful colours all packaged in tissue and a brown recyclable box.