Wow! What a difference. I thought the top row looked pretty good....until...you did the row with the dowel. Very clever. 😊
@BeeHam19813 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this is so helpful as my regular style slips into a diagonal. Got my dowels and ready to start 😀😊
@carolyn22 Жыл бұрын
Really cool idea. Have you ever tried taking the dowel out and then tightening the knots?
@dgeorge48333 жыл бұрын
This is fab, I am working with a stick to hold my wall hanging and it’s far from straight, this will work as it will ensure after my 1st layer of half hitches anything below it will be straight. I will have to use maybe 5 little sticks across, but can glue them together. Great hack, thank you
@omqi3 жыл бұрын
Amazing, I just thought some people had the gift! Now I too have the gift thanks to your gift of sharing. Xxxxxx
@nancyelsley3438 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the genius tip!!! I just finished watching hour 5 knot tutorial and I could actually see what you were doing, nice and slow and you managed to not get your hands in the way. Any tip keeping a straight line for the double half hitch on the diagonal?
@isabellaleung8375 Жыл бұрын
brilliant idea
@louisetremblay56032 жыл бұрын
OMG! What a great idea! Thank you😀
@brianmaytum85193 жыл бұрын
Thank you Crystal! You make this so easy!
@renitawesterlund63223 жыл бұрын
Wow thankyou for that im definitely going to try this thankyou
@carolgunn6527 Жыл бұрын
This is an awesome idea! Thank you!❤
@kimmitchell1751 Жыл бұрын
I've used a separate cord before, but never thought about using a dowel. This seems like cheating lol! Definitely going to try this out. Thanks for sharing this tip 🥰
@MarchingNorth Жыл бұрын
Lol I know, sometimes you just want a perfectly straight row the easy way 🤣
@talori54172 жыл бұрын
Woah! Thanks so much! What if I don’t want to keep the wooden dowel in? Think I can wrap it around both a wooden dowel and a cord then slide the dowel out?? Either way it’s very helpful.
@cynthiaacevedo8314 Жыл бұрын
Thanks again
@elwicho12813 жыл бұрын
Wow!!! Thank you, i will make my guitar strap like willie Nelson's guitar strap with this example 🖤
@mervatstiefsohn10162 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing ❤
@sher17722 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@teresasudar58733 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that!!
@CandyB8433 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this tutorial!!
@Tamuscrafts2 жыл бұрын
Wow
@hopebergstresser47773 жыл бұрын
WOW !!! that was great I'm sooo new at this thank you for the best !!! Tip
@WonderJapandaLand3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!
@rivergirl34443 жыл бұрын
Yes, this will really help me
@MariaRodriguez-ff9vc3 жыл бұрын
This is genius thank you!
@susanaescobedo13 жыл бұрын
Excellent tip! Thank you! I wonder if it can be done with diagonal knots?
@mimi.honey083 жыл бұрын
Great tip! I love your channel ❤
@rosegonzalez45392 жыл бұрын
Enlightening!
@NancyGTS2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome. Thank you. I am starting a large project with some free form DHH - I’m wondering if you have any suggestions for that? Maybe some bendable wire?
@susansimmons3740 Жыл бұрын
Great video! I just bought 3/8" dowels at Walmart to make a fish one wall hanging. How easy is it to trim the ends of the dowels and what tool would you recommend?
@wisewillow57312 жыл бұрын
Great idea and great tutorial 😊
@ellieorozco32993 жыл бұрын
So helpful!!! I can’t wait to try thank you!
@LillianKZ123 Жыл бұрын
Great tip, thank you! One question, what is the difference in the double half hitch if you do under then over, or over then under?
@XxkittystarrXx3 жыл бұрын
Love the idea!
@marcidrobison Жыл бұрын
Do you have to add a dowel for every row, or after the first straight row with the dowel, would the rest line up?
@cmweisser1 Жыл бұрын
I made a macrame wallhanging that will NOT lay flat. Can you recommend something I can use to stiffen or "block" the whole project? Thank you for your help.
@biglacroix69462 жыл бұрын
Super duper helpful, but I wonder if there’s a way to do it, that we can recover the dowel afterwards (I’m new to the macrame lifestyle, so pardon me if dowels are cheap and easy to get).
@macraimee5263 жыл бұрын
Very helpful 👌 ☺ just subscribed
@EllaElizabeth20163 жыл бұрын
May I ask, what do you use to clip the wooden stick ends off. Sorry, new to this!
@brandihoffmann42433 жыл бұрын
I’ve been wanting to make a rug with that same pattern and I love how straight the dowel makes it look Is it possible to slide the dowel out afterwards?
@ZenaHerbert2 жыл бұрын
If you remove the dowel, which would be hard if your knots are tight, the knots will collapse. They won't be going round anything. The dowel is the filler replacing the usual cord filler.
@mahamwaseem52072 жыл бұрын
Any other way without dowel.!?
@shaffycat3 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing this I'm wondering what do you use to cut the dowels ? I've been buying them and some are a harder wood and some are balsa which is easy to cut so do you recommend a specific type of tool ?? TIA
@MarchingNorth3 жыл бұрын
I use pruning shears like you use for gardening if it’s a really small dowel. For bigger ones I have a hacksaw and then I sand down the edges 😊😊😊
@munawarazeemi74633 жыл бұрын
wow thats much easier.
@brianmaytum85193 жыл бұрын
Do you have a link so I can purchase one?
@candiceduplessis48743 жыл бұрын
I have been trying to make a large wall hanging using this trick but my knots always roll which makes the cords between the two dowels loose. Do you know why this is?
@ZenaHerbert2 жыл бұрын
This happened to me, my knots just rolled. So I made them really tight when I tied them. I also tied 2 or 3 end cords when I began, to hold the dowel level. Hope this helps.
@jaclynreifsnyder37492 жыл бұрын
I am doing 2 rows of double half hitch knots but I keep getting graps between the 2 rows. Why??
@parabriana2 жыл бұрын
Where can I find dowels that size?
@MarchingNorth2 жыл бұрын
I get mine at the hardware store or the craft store
@munawarazeemi74633 жыл бұрын
if 2 middle cords are too short to complete square knots pattern, then how can i fix it?? waiting for your reply....
@dgeorge48333 жыл бұрын
Check on you tube, there are tips for adding length to your work. Check “adding length to macrame ropes” hope this helps
@munawarazeemi74633 жыл бұрын
@@dgeorge4833 I didn't get tutorial of middle cords but working cords..
@munawarazeemi74633 жыл бұрын
if you know about that specific then let me know ...
@susansimmons3740 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps try a larks head knot inside the last square knot to give you new middle cords.