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DIY Macramé Plant Hangers for Beginners: Easy Home Decor Projects with Recycled Bottles and Jars

teacher avatar Ginny Núñez

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:32

    • 2.

      The Project

      1:28

    • 3.

      Materials

      6:12

    • 4.

      Hanging Ropes

      8:15

    • 5.

      First Design

      15:20

    • 6.

      First Design - Fringes

      5:04

    • 7.

      First Design - Gold Accents

      7:20

    • 8.

      Second Design

      7:33

    • 9.

      Second Design - Gold Accents

      5:44

    • 10.

      Second Design - Tassel

      3:43

    • 11.

      Final Thoughts

      1:40

    • 12.

      Behind The Scenes

      1:14

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About This Class

Ready to add a handmade touch to your home decor? In this beginner-friendly class, you'll create two beautiful macramé plant hangers from scratch — and you'll have your first one finished in about an hour, even if you've never tied a macramé knot before.

Hi! I'm Ginny. More than 3,300 students have joined my embroidery class here on Skillshare, and now I'm bringing that same step-by-step, beginner-first approach to the wonderful world of macramé.

I'll guide you through two modern plant hanger designs that you can easily adapt to any bottle, vase, or pot you already have at home. No experience and no expensive materials needed — just cord, a jar, and a little patience.

💫 What makes this class special? You'll learn how to add elegant gold accents to your hangers, giving your macramé pieces a unique, modern, elevated look — boho home decor with a twist.

🧶 In this class, you'll learn:

  • How to choose the right cord, rings, and accessories
  • The basic macramé knots every beginner needs
  • Two exclusive plant hanger designs, explained step by step
  • How to customize the length and shape to fit any vase, jar, or planter
  • Tips to add gold elements that make your pieces shine ✨

🌿 This class is for you if:

  • You've never tried macramé and want an easy, fun first project
  • You love DIY home decor and handmade pieces
  • You want to create meaningful gifts with a personal touch

By the end of class, you'll have two finished plant hangers ready to style your home — and I'd love to see them! Share a photo of your project in the gallery, and I'll personally reply to every single one. 🌼

Made with all my love. Let's create together!

Meet Your Teacher

Hi!

I'll tell you my story and how I got here. You can call me Ginny, and... You know what? I always considered myself a very uncreative person, or rather not creative at all, and that my thing was numbers. Maybe my square mind didn't let me see that deep down I needed to free it up and get out of my comfort zone.

My obsession with numbers led me to study engineering, and to move further and further away from this magical world. It is said that the most analytical and logical people use more the left side of our brain, while those who are more imaginative and creative use more on the right hemisphere. I used to imagined my brain with a tiny, almost imperceptible right side. And I kept repeating to myself phrases like:

"I don't have enough preparation yet"
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1. Intro: You have about a few meter or thread. You have this!, Hi, I am Ginny, a textil artist. and addicted to create the beautiful and cute things. Maybe you already know me from my exciting embroidery class, but I dive into over 21 unique stitches to do you into a true embroidery master. But today I want to take, due to a new creative work, the wonderful universe of macrame knots. And together we are going to give a second life to those yards or bottles you have around the house. In this class, I'm going to show you the power of macrame knots to create a lovely hanging planter flight. There are so cute. Yes. I will also teach you how to add golden touches that will give personality and it's tied to your creations. Together, we will learn buzzy macrame knots and how to create a perfect hung up for Plant and flowers. Don't worry, you don't need complicating materials. You can recycle a simple hardware glass bottle with very few elements I PROMISE, you will achieve amazing results. Create unique Home Decor piece easily and with very few materials, you will be surprise and how easy is to create this one there with your own house. Okay, let's get started. 2. The Project: The Project. This class, you will live into the wonderful world of macrame knots. You will learn to create two different models or hanger for vases. We, this hanger, you can decorate your home. This bread, your most beautiful flowers, or may I special, unique give full of personality. We definitely will have robe and using only a few magic knots, we will achieve an incredible result. But wait, there's more. I will also teach you how to read your creations to live and decorate them with gold beads with will add personality and unit touch. Okay, I confess. I said with adding golden tied to all my project, I just love this sophisticated Thoughts and then wow, it fed, it brings to migration. So in this class, I will share my trace with you. How to add these lovely attempt to your pieces. We've made two different types of hangers and I will show you PO2 may be ration, an alternative to personalize your hanger to the max according to your preferences. I will also show you how to add that to feed your best perfectly. I excited to get started with this class. I promise you that you will enjoy, eat, and fall in love with the result 3. Materials: For this class, you will need just a few materials and a big dose of creative excitement. Let's start with the basic. The start of the show is macrame core. There are different types of Cord and thicknesses that we've chained who your project looks, depending on what you pick. For some pair here you can see drops of various color, different shapes, and even different thicknesses like this still go on here. For this project, I recommend that you send three millimeter core. It's a popular thinness in macrame. And I think it's just right for lots of Project. Not too thin to thick. There are three types of three or Ropes there are more recommended. And Wally using macrame right now because they are made for it. Although there are a wide range of color available, the most common one is a natural tone, similar to the ones you see here. Too. Again, I will show you the twisted macrame row. This row is a classic. It's made by twisty in three. A string in a spiral is very easy to work with. So it's great for beginner. You can untwist the srand to get cute Fringes. It really strong. Another very common and very huge rope is the macrame string, also called single twist, is made by twisting codon three it into a single restaurant. Is very easy to fray and calm due to its shape is perfect for Fluffy Fringes making macrame feeders, I will leave because it phrase easily is not the best choice for beginners. It's estrus off, but not as strong as other core. For last, here you can see the breakdown. Macrame Cord is the simplest to handle. So it's great for starting with Macrame. You will get well-defined one, knots, which is important while learning. It's not. By discord can be phrased, so it's not good for Fringes or leaf. Also, it's a bit strategic. For this class, I recommend using a three millimeter to send macrame rope. It easy war width and we can untwist it to make beautiful Fringes. In addition to the row, you will need one or more buses. You can choose one you like. But it's important that it has a bit of Felipe to Paul, our macrame grip. You can either recycled glass bottle or a soda bottle. It will look yes, as beautiful. And you will give them a second life for your comfort while working. Having a hook and a place to hide your pins can be very helpful. This book are easy to find because they are used for many things. You can look on Amazon idea or a local store. I go this one for Ikea. There are quite pretty. And I even used in a phone to have migration as decoration. I also use an idea, clothes hanger to have my macrame project is very economical and worth ready with. The site is perfect. You can find it under the name Molly. You will also need Caesar. Any part that cuts a where we find obscenely, you will need macrame bits, ladies, golden tubes in different site. Is my round bits. You prefer. You can use them beats or any of you like. Try to add your unique that they possibilities are analysed. Lastly, you will also need macrame. Good wins. There are easy to find at any graph or macrame supply store. We will use bend to break the hanger. And I almost forgot having washi tape or something similar will be useful. I will share some helpful tips using it in the class. That's all you need for the class. So colleague your materials and you will be ready to get started 4. Hanging Ropes: Let's start by making the hanging S3 for our hangers. To do this, we need to cut to a swing of 340 millimeter for it hanger. Then we will fall in half flavors. For this initial part, it will be much easier to work vertically to come behind your macrame project. For an R code hawk, there are no poor a clothes rack. The first step is to set up your macrame space for these taker golden rain and place it on a Hanger. They want to strain a tie E to the rain using a light hand nut, which is simply folding the Sweeney have, passing it behind The Rain on closing the end through it to secure eight. Repeat the same process with the second string. Pass the stream behind The Rain. Grows the end through in this way. Now, do you have for a string, right? The minimum is three are called Philae Cord and we will time not other than the outer 3M, are they working Cord, the ones we will use to create the macrame knots. Let's start by learning how to do the spiral state when the left core or whether to center core and under the right Cord. Bring the right Cord under the two center core and over the left core. Pull on the core to tie them, not trying to do these evenly, keeping the same amount of pressure on both sides. Now we have completed our first half is square naught. Let's do it again. Remember, please, the left score over the two center core and under the right core path, the right Cord. And they're the two center core and over the left core. Pull the court generally too tight. It did not place if ripeness to the previous knots. Let's go again. You can hold the filler core IV to put them properly. You will see that the knots start to twist, not worry is normal and needs the Fed we want to achieve. Let the Corp rotate. The first time, might seem quite hard, but I promise that after you have done a few, it will become much easier. Let's pray find knots. 1,234.5. It's time to add our first golden beet, Athens to do these. Thick as mine size golden tooth and three it onto one of the working chords. Here is at week, grab the end of the core and some washi tape. The tape around the core, which will make it easier to his lie, that golden beet on. Insert the beat on the slide it up to the top. Now, tie the knot in the same way as before. When you tighten the knot, you will see the bead settling into this place. Continue in the same way and create Phi more knots. Now it's time to add another golden beet. Do eat the same way. Thread the golden tooth onto the core and slide it up to the top. Leafy there. Then tie a knot slide you have been doing. You born, you will see the tube feeding easily into its place. Remember to let the core rotate as you work. Keep tiny knots. For every find knots, insert our new volume, be using the washi tape is optional, but believe me, it will make the task Matisse, Yeah. Continue tying knots until you've wait the desired length. For this one, it's 18 centimeter. In my case, I make it to size one for each hanger. Assured there were of about 18 centimeter and a longer one of 26 centimeter 5. First Design: Let's start with the first Design for our flower Hanger. Remember the base or hard, you choose to have a leaf that allows you to hand the macrame Hanger. The first thing you need to do is cut rope that at 30-meter long. I use a flexible Meta, which is very convenient. We are going to tie it around the nasal for where base is a need to make as strong not yes. Loved the rope around a beat to hold. This will be the feel occur. And we will cut piece of rope. There are 40 centimeter loans. You can use that as a reference to cut the rest of the threats. We are going to fall the threads in half and placed over the Philae core using the large heads not we learned fall this training high. Passing E behind the core from above. And crows DNS through it to secure it. Gently pull and push Citium than not less, Do it again. For the roping had proceed from the BAP. And three DNS through to pray thee not in the field Decor, move a lot or is challenging, you can tie a stronger knot to secure it. Keep placing more Ropes all around. The idea is to feed the complete control. Keep in mind that the number of road you will need, the bends of the side of the water or bass. Heighten the batch rope and take job Pro X. Continue placing more. We are almost done. I need a few more Ropes, so I'm going to cut some more. And we're keep placing day in the same way A thing, a couple of more will be enough. Once I have filled it up, I check to see if it is enough. It's okay if there is as Malaga as we need to play the hanger, we review and arrange them nicely to me then as even as possible. Let's add that the hanging a strip to do these play than not that far in front of you under the node. I'll leave it like that. For convenience, you can tie the two end on the field Decor. Take this trip we made, in this case, the longer one. Please eat for war. I'm past the four Ropes behind The free Decor. To connect it a star by taking the leftmost rope. Now we will create a horizontal clove heat not on the film Decor, thread Decor down under the Philae core and over itself to the left. Poor, the working Core tightly to the upper left of the film Decor. This makes half of a full closed hips not repeat the same process with the same working for two NADH per working core may want clove hits. Not. The fear is not is the trickiest because either move along. Now onto the second thing, the nice rope to the right layer before go behind the filler Cord and gone over in cell to the left. Repeat this movement one more time with their same row to complete the not. Continue with the same movement for all four Ropes. And now pull on the ends on the filler rope. I'm wondering, is perfectly secure. Taken row at centimeters long? Start from the bag, locate the sequence string of the grip and pick the three on the far-right. Plays the role of Judea scat. This will be our feel occur leaving an N of about 20 centimetre, roughly the same lane and the rest of the Fringes. We are going to repeat the non-Greek use in the first par to do these thread Decor down under the feet Decor. Nobody is saying to the left, pull. Repeat the same process one more time with the same working Cord to complete the not. Continue making these same knots over the feeder Decor with all the extra until you complete the counter. Keep the tension causes tank to make the knots look even. As long as you maintain the same thing shown, the powder will look uniform. Kim walking in the same way until the end. You can see why making the NADH in not only pulling the working poor, but also keeping dense you in the field occur. This **** is per Citium. They're not currently. Also you can press the core in place when your finger. In doing the phenol naught, aligning it with the first one. We finished by UC our hands to a yes. Every scene and lead to fit the shape of our bus. We are almost there 6. First Design - Fringes: Now let's create the Fringes. Is time to wherever the Caesar decide how long you want a Fringes. It's up to your preference. I'm going to cut it around here. I prefer to leave it longer and then train eat. Now I will cut all the Fringes to the same level. Now, little by little, we will start unraveling, eats color to gray the Fringes. He are, you will need a lot of patients. They this opportunity to relax, play your favorite music in the background and enjoy the process. You can use a calm to finish unraveling the Fringes. You can also get rid of these corn. You see an IR is trade Turner, is convenient and easy. Once we had the Fringes calmed, is time to decide on the phenylalanine. I'm going to cut and been more. And there you have it. Now. It's time to add a spit yet I'm personal touch 7. First Design - Gold Accents: Let's add that is petiole and unique tout to our piece, giving it life and personality. To achieve this, we will incorporate lovely decoration. I'm pretty golden, Athens, a star by taking a piece of macrame core. As you know, the score is made up of multiple threads. Whoever this time we would use a single thread, one M with one hand. With the other hand, keep a firm grip on the rest of the core. Poor, poor, poor. It's separate from the group. Fall the thread in half and connect the two end like this. Now, add the bits you want to use for the curation. In my case, I will choose to come in a woodland, meet with to golden beet of different size. I will start with a golden beet. Insert it like this. Next, I will follow the same process with our Gold limits, inserting in a similar way. Lastly, I will add as molar Rome bit. These lovely sales will be Cong, our Decor. It is pinned down. Now, you need to tie a knot to secure the beads in place. This is how we look at the opposite end. We'll have a loop. We will attach it to our flower Hanger, ladies in sarah, the pendant through one of the space from above. That's like we did in the law, had not. We will pass the Beatles part through the loop. Generally poor. Now the PSI on the lender one. For example, we want to be at this height. We will tie a new node at that point to secure the bits. We can adjust if we prefer dependent to be higher or lower. My case I want it here. I will not even here like this. One. Look at how it's look SME 3D. Now I suggest creating Sarah Beadle pendent. I'm placing then around the contour of your flower hanger. For my Maze, I will add five, be the Pentagon, Living equal spaces between them. You can use the upper naught as a guide to ensure you maintain similar distances between each decoration. Explore your own combination of color and style. Without allowed. This is mine. The tides will make a difference. I assure you. There you go. We just need to add some beautiful fresh flowers to complete the loop. 8. Second Design: Let's move on. The second Design. I have chosen these baths. Remember, once again, it's important for your boss to have a suitable lead to hold our macrame hanger. We will start with a 90 centimeter rope. Similar to what we did with our first Hanger. Wrap it around the neck of your butter or bars and tie. Identical, not next cut piece of rope there at centimeter long. Keep in mind and they've your bottle is for you will need to live longer pieces. Once fallen in half. They should cover the head of the Battelle, another about 15 centimeter extra. Following the technique from their first Design, we will follow the trading half and place then over the filler rope using the head not we learned. So fall the fried in half passive behind the row from above and grows the ends through it to secure it. Gently pull and adjust the note into position. They can up so rope and let's do it again. Folder roping have seen from above by the end through to pray thee not. Keep placing more Ropes around. You should feel the entire circumference. In this case, I have used her labor and Ropes by the total ammonia will need depend on the width of Jarvis. We will keep making head knots. Faster robe over and tie the knot. You can adjust the feet of rope to take if you need to add more Ropes. Now a rain the Ropes along the circumference. Take that all the knots are well done. I may sure the perimeter is fear. Nif is small space as we will attach the hanging a strip there. He's way. It will be okay. Let's add the hanging a strip to do these played another par in front of do handle the North amid. I'll leave it like that. They they hanging Ropes we made. In this case, the shorter one. Place him for unbiased the four rows behind The feedback. To connect it a star by taking the leftmost rope. Now, we will create a horizontal globe. Heats not on the film Decor, trade Decor down on the field Decor. I know when it sells to the left. Pull the working Cord tightly to the upper left of the feet. Acre. Repeat the same process with the same working core. Now onto the second thing, the net rope to the right, like before, go behind the film Decor and come over. It says to the left, repeat this movement one more time with the same row to complete, the knots. Continue with the same movement for all four Ropes. Ready? Now located 2nds on the filler rope and pull. Perfect. Now, it's perfectly secure 9. Second Design - Gold Accents: It's time to add the monitor dots. The most charming part of the class, less incorporate a pretty golden Athens. And we'll go for these golden 2s. But you can also choose other type of golden beets or element to like. These tubes can hold multiple core. In my gaze they fit Phi core. So I will create groups of Phi core. It will use washi tape to make it easier to insert the core into the pollen tube. Will grab ungroup. I said, of Phi core with a washi tape. This way, it will be much simpler to thread the core into the tube. It's a fantastic trick. When it comes out from the other end pool. It can be a bit tricky. Next, I will position the golden tube where I want it. In my case, in the center. I will create a pattern of groups of Phi core separated by two individual core all around the base to conference. Let's move on the next one. I will take my set of Phi core again, them with washi tape at the end and easily insert them into the golden tooth. We have put the tube in the center. Yes, like the first one. I will continue with my pattern. I choose group of Phi core because that's what fits in my tooth. And I lead to cor between each group for symmetry. Depending of the core you have used, you can leave the necessary number of core for the pattern to fit. Currently. You can place the car according to your preference. I will create another group of phi course. I will place the washi tape, insert the tube, and position it. The desire place. Again, I will leave to course and take my last set of five cards. Ready? Now, I will review and a Das, everything. Soon I will show you hope to finish these Hanger. Good, beautiful dozen 10. Second Design - Tassel: Let's Han, our creation when the hook for this step, working in a vertical position will make everything much easier. You will need a row of about 100 cm. The Ropes in your hands. Depending on the bus you are using, you can look from above to take if it's Centre Hall, new rows firmly. With your other hands, place they work in row on top. All eat alone with the rest of the Ropes. Now, by the working, roll over your fan and start grabbing all the rows from the WACC. Keep wrapping tightly and tighten and as strongly as possible. Keep wrapping several more times. One more round. Perfect. To finish. They diane of the work in row and pass it through the loop that has formed. Then pull firmly from the end that lift upward. There you go. Nice and King graph knots, which is great now for creating Tassel. We are only good. Isn't it? Absolutely beautiful 11. Final Thoughts: Congrats. Absolutely fantastic. You have reached this point. Let me offer you my hair failed congratulation level. Now, not only how you master some basic macrame knots, but you have also craft their beautiful hanger to showcase your Flower and liven up your home. The best part is you have made them with your own hands, is not that simply amazing. Throughout this class, you have discovered that we guess a couple of month on your skin beforehand, you can create to your magic. Moreover, I hope I have activated your creativity, leaving you're inspired to other on your PCs with Beats, ornament and other the correlative elements, adding that unique personal touch. Lastly, I want to express my deepest gratitude for you one me on this learning adventure. Like all my classes. It's a been done with a lot of curve and your participation here means so much to me. Remember, you can follow me on social media. Studios, stay updated on my projects. We do have liked to see more classes like this. Your support will mean the word to me. I will really appreciate the view. Cool. Share a photo of your project. I leave your opinion about the course. That could be as really fantastic. Once again, thank you so much and sending you a big, big, big two or half. Hope to see you in the next class. 12. Behind The Scenes: That's all I do need for this class. And I said, Yes, I knew when we ready to get started. Okay. Isn't it? Okay. Okay.