Hi. My name is Rachel Colton. I am a former elementary school teacher turned stay at home mom with a seven year old son and a three old daughter.
I began my RU-vid channel several years ago when my son started a cooperative play group. I started the channel to teach other DIY-ers how to create the crafts that I enjoy making for myself.
I have been crafting for as long as I can remember. I would come home from summer swim team practice, turn on Aleene’s Creative Living and scrounge up whatever materials I could find around the house in order to recreate the projects they had made on the show. Thank goodness my mom didn’t mind me raiding her sewing cabinet and stencil paint collection.
My favorite craft projects are macrame, Cricut, and chalk painting. In the future, I hope to add wood working and sewing to my repertoire.
Thank you for tuning into my channel. You can also follow my crafting adventures on Instagram: r.ann.c
Great tutorial. I made so many of these with my mum in the early 80s when I was a teenager and sadly they all got thrown out when my mum passed away so I’ve just bought the materials to make one for myself now that they’re back in fashion again. Greetings from Scotland
Yard 😂😂😂 Why yards when you could just start with light years? After all, the longer the unit, the less and less precisely you have to measure!😂😅 I'm joking a little, but seriously, wouldn't cm or meter units be better for this kind of work?😊
I always say this, a good skill is learning through a good teacher. Thank you for taking the time and explaining very clearly how to do this, I will definitely try tomorrow
Im wondering if the cords end up the same length at the end? Or how much shorter/longer some are : ) how much cord did you cutt off to still have the long tassle?
I enjoyed the clear explanation in the video. I am so sorry if it is mentioned somewhere, but I could not find a reference to how long the hanger is when it is finished, before adding the pot. I realize the final length will vary depending on pot size, so it would be helpful to know the size of the pot shown. Thank you for this information.
Yep. And at the end after she does the gathering knot you see longer strings and shorter strings. She could have swapped them right before doing the spiral sections but she started out with really long cords to begin with
Thank you very much for this tutorial. What is in general the maximum size of a flower pot if i want to hang it up with a macrame plant hanger? Would be 30cm too big?
TYSM for this video! if i wanted to make it just a bit skinnier and smaller (for a mason jar), would you just take off a strand on each side or would this mess up the whole equation?
Can I just ask, for the half twisted knots, is it 18 of those or 36 as you're just going one way. For the square knots for example it was 36 but 18 knots.? Thank you.
Hi Im making this . I'm using black & white . In this order all the way along the dowel , I'm making sure that I have 2 white & 2 black strands in every knot , but some of the squares are coming out in either solid white or solid black !? Why ? Can I fix that somehow ? Thanks
Thank you for this helpful video! I have a different brand shade that has a lifetime warranty if it breaks. We have had them since 2010 and this was probably the third one. The store fixed it but I wanted to install it since the brackets were already installed. The store only has pdf instructions, and I am not handy at all. I saw a few RU-vid videos but yours was clear! It went right into place and didn't cost me anything to have to hire a blind installer. Noe IO know what to do! Thank you!
This is exactly what I was looking for. I have a huge plant I want to hang and it's not going to fit in the average-sized hanger. The way you showed this, I can easily see how to adapt it to a larger plant. Such a beautiful yet simple design. I am off to Hobby Lobby now! Thank you.
