Learn how to make a Macrame jewellery dish / trinket holder!

1. SKILLSHARE INTRO: Hi, I'm Megan and I'm self-taught Macrame artist. I'm also the owner and creator of my own little business Luna Crafts Online. In today's class, I'm going to show you how to make this really cute Macrame jewelry dish. It makes great gifts for friends and family, but it also looks really nice on a nightstand with some jewelry in, or you can put it on your desk and have some paperclips or anything in there that you fancied. It's super easy as well. I created my small business luna crafts online back in December 2018. Since then I've fallen more and more in love with macrame and fiber arts and the process of creating bespoke wall hangings. I find creating something with my hands, very therapeutic and relaxing. I'd love to now be able to teach other people who about this craft and hopefully inspire others to be created. My hope is that my lessons, we'll teach you some basic knots and patterns so that you'll be able to create your own wall hanging, plant hangers. And even macrame bags. Not only for yourself but for friends and family too make really amazing gifts. Some of my other hobbies include yoga, running, baking, and houseplants. I have probably about 60 house plants, so I have a lot of different macrame, plant hanger tutorials to share with you. I really hope you learned some techniques from me so you're able to create your own unique, beautiful wall hangings. 2. Supplies & Materials: Let's go over the supplies and materials you will need to make this jewelry dish. You're going to need one length of a 160 centimeter length of five millimeter cord. You're going to need six lots of 90 centimeter lengths of five millimeter cord. This is just to start with because you'll need to add cords as you go along as the bowl widens, you will need to add and cut more cord. So I can't give you the exact amount that I use because everyone will be different depending on how tight you tie the knots. I'll show you how to add in the cord and how to measure it as well. I'm using 5 millimeter three ply cord for this, which I find creates a really nice chunky texture in the bowl. And I really loved that. You'll need some scissors. You'll need a tape measure, need some fabric glue, but this is optional just to glue down the end to make it nice and secure, so nothing unravels. This is also optional. This is a macrame wire brush. I find this really helps to brush out the cords at the end to give it that nice fringe around the bowl. That's everything you'll need to complete this project. 3. Reverse Larks head knot : cow hitch knot: Now we can begin creating our bowl. So we're gonna take our long cord like this. We're going to grab one of the ends and we're going to wrap it around itself. Just like this. You see, I'm turning it in a clockwise way. It's created this loop and it's wrapped around the side. It's doubled up here. Next I'm going to grab one of the 90 centimeter lengths of cord and we're going to split it in half and attach it using a reverse locks head knot or a cow hitch knot as sometimes it's called that, but you're gonna take the middle of the cord underneath where we've looped over the long cord. Like this. I'm gonna pull it around and then we're gonna push the two cords underneath through the loop like that. Just gently pull that through, just like that. And then you can pull that just to tighten it. And you'll see it that has created a reverse locks head knot, or sometimes it's called a cow hitch knot, I'm gonna go ahead and grab another cord. I'm repeat the exact same way to create that. knot. This is how you're going to attach all your six starting cords. And this will create the base of the bowl. If you wanted, you could make one of these cords a different colour and that would give you a nice pattern if you wanted to do that. I do show you how to do that in my macrame coaster video, the round circular coaster that I created. That's another option for you if you wanted to add in some colour. Now that they're all attached, we can go ahead and close the loop that we created. In order to do that, I'm going to pull on the longer length of the cord. And you'll see the loop will start to close. But then I want to create a little waste as possible. So I'm just pulling the cord until there's about a couple of inches left on the other side. And then again, pulling the longer cord to close that gap and pull all the cords around until they form a circular shape. Just like this. And then that will become the base of the bowl. 4. Double clove hitch knot: So this cord here, you can just ignore that for now. We don't need to do anything with that. So now lay out all the cords nice and flat And then you'll see, you'll have the longer cord. Here. You can see I've got the longer cord that and just pulling that down to the bottom. And that is the cord that we're going to use to create the knots on. I'm going to grab that in my hand and wherever direction the cord is going in. So here it is going anticlockwise for me. So it's going towards the right. Just kind of lay that accord over the cords like this. Taking the first cord on the left, that'll be the first cord from the 90cm lengths of cord. Going to be working with one cord at a time to create double-clove hitch knots? You can see I've got the longer cord on top of that one. I'm going to bring the cord up over to create this loop. From behind. I'm going to pull it through the loop just like that. And then just pull that to the top to tighten it. We're going to repeat the exact same steps with that cord, so create the loop from behind, pull it through, and pull it to the top to tighten it. So that is one double-clove hitch knot that you've just created. That's the only other knot that you will need to create this little bowl. Then I'm taking the next cord that's available and doing the exact same steps. So I'm taking it up and over behind and through the loop and repeating that twice with each cord to create the double clove hitch knot. just like that. I'm just tightening the knots as I go to make sure that all nice and neat. Then we're gonna move on to the next cord to create knots. Now you can see I'm just going to trim this off. Now that we've done a couple of knots, it should stay nice and secure. So I'm just going to trim that shorter to make it easier for myself. Now, we can move onto the next lesson, which will be adding in a cord. 5. Adding in extra cords: So now you can see we've come to a gap here. It would be too far to pull the next cord along to create a knot. So what we need to do is add in a cord. It's going to grab my role of macrame cord. And then what I like to do is hold it up next to the last cord that you used just to get a rough measurement of how long you need to cut the cord so you get the most amount of knots out of this cord. Then we're going to attach it using the reverse locks head knot that we've done at the start, which will create a really seamless look. Pusing it underneath, and then pulling the two cords through the middle of the loop. Pulling that to tighten it and then you can just slide it up to the last knot that you created. And you will see it will blend right in. It looks the exact same as a double-clove hitch knot. And it will look so seamless. And that's how you attach the cords and add them when you need them is super easy to do. 6. Carrying on the pattern: Now that we've added in an extra cord, we can go ahead and create double-clove hitch knot, using the next cords that are available. And just carry on until we come to the next gap. And then you know exactly what to do. You would just cut the cord, comparing it to the cords that are already there. So it will get shorter and shorter and you won't waste as much cord. Here again, I've got another gap, so I'm just going to add the cord in the except same way. Then just carry on with my double clove hitch knot, until we get to the size of the base of the bowl that we like. And then we can start to form the sides of the bowl. 7. Shaping the bowl: So now I've done a few rows on the bottom to create the base of the bowl. So I'm just going to measure that. Mine measured at six centimeters wide so you can make yours however wide you want it before you start forming the sides. But for me this is a good base size. Now what we need to do is instead of creating the knots laying flat against each other like that, we're going to sort of raise them up and build a knot on top of the row underneath. Again, just creating double clove hitch knots, in the exact same way, but instead of laying the rows next to each other, we sort of building them up on top of each other. I'm just going to add in a cord as and when I need it. I think I added in three or four cords. Now, again, it would depend on how tight you are tying the knots and everything, which is why I can't give a precise amount. You can see now I've started building the rows on top of each other and you can see it's forming sides of the bowl. Just keep doing that until you've created the size bowl that you'd like. You could also make it a wider bowl if you wanted and not do the rows as on top of each other as I have. And that will create a wider dish. Just going to continue around doing a few more rows until I'm happy with the size and shape. Just like that, I've done a couple of more rows now and I think that's the perfect size for me. I'll go ahead and measure it just in case you want to create the same. It's about eight centimeters wide and the height of my bowl is about four centimeters. Now we can go ahead and trim off all the remaining cords. So you won't have as much cord wastage as I did because I'm giving you some shorter measurements as I had a lot of wastage. You could create your bowl whatever size you want it, you just need to make sure you cut your cords accordingly. So if you wanted a larger bowl, you would cut longer cords to start with and then create a bigger base and work your way up from that, the possibilities really are endless. 8. Trimming the cords: Now I'm going to go ahead and grab my scissors and I'm just going to do a very rough cut to just to get the bulky length off of the cords. This will help me just to brush out and create that really fluffy fringe. Just going to go ahead and snip them. I'm cutting them up about an inch long, but like I said, this is just a rough cut then I'm going to brush it and do the final cut to get the length that I want. Just like that. And don't forget, you can keep all these off cuts as well because you can make so many things with them, like keyrings. I already have a class on how to make keyring as well, so you can probably do that with them. But there's so many things that you can make with these, so don't throw them away, reuse everything that you can. Just like that everything is cut now. So here I'm gonna go ahead and grab my Macrame brush. And I'm going to brush this out until they're nice and fluffy, just like that. So I'm starting with the bowl upside down. And then you will say I will flip it to the right way round as well just to get all of the cord. You can see how effortlessly it brushes throughout. Really recommend getting it. If you do a lot of Macrame projects, it is so effortless to brush it out. Just like that. So it's all nice and fluffy now. And I'm gonna go ahead and take my scissors and do the final trim. I'm just going to take my time with this as well because it's a bit finicky to go around in a circle. But it's handmade at the end of the day. So if it's not perfect, It's fine. You made it and you can be proud of yourself. Again, I'm just going to take my brush to your final trim because some of the cord kind of got stuck underneath. So there's a few long cords that didn't get cut. I'm gonna go ahead and do that and cut it again until I'm happy with the result. Just like that. I'm really happy with this. So I'm gonna call this a day, finish with this and then I'm going to grab my fabric glue. Again, this is optional but I recommend doing it. It just creates a nice neat finish. So I'm going to glue that cord down. The cord that we cut off after a few rows of doing the base just to make it nice and neat and secure. Then I'm also going to just glue the last knot that we created just to make sure it won't unravel. And again, this will dry clear, so you won't see this as well. Then we can just leave that to dry and then the bowl is complete and you can put whatever you want in it. 9. Finishing touches & class project: So now it's all dry and we can go ahead and fill the bowl up with whatever you want. Here. I'm just adding in a little bracelet of mine. I couldn't find all my other jewellery as it's packed up from moving house. If you wanted to create this with some colour running through it, a colour triangle. You can go ahead and check out the class that I'll have linked in this description of this class, which is how to make a macrame coaster. And there I show you how to add in a colour. So it's basically the exact same technique as creating this bowl to make the coaster, you just keep on creating the rows next to each other to create a flat coaster. But I did use slightly different cord in that video as well. And, also tell you how to add in colours as well. So check that out if you fancied. And also the little rectangle coaster you see on the top left here is my last class I created on Skillshare as well. So check that out if you want to create square coasters to go along with your jewellery dish. For your class project. I'd just like you to recreate this if you fancy it, you could use three millimeter cord, you could use four millimeter cord. You could use single twist cord. It's entirely up to you. You could create it one colour, you could create a two colours. Just experiment, have fun with it and create what you like. Please share your progress pictures or your final pictures as well in the class projects section because I'd really love to see what you create. I hope you have a lovely week.