I thought I’d share with you some of the macrame blogs I like to read or go to when I’m looking for inspiration. All of these have lots of great tutorials too, so a great place to turn when the knotting bug bites — which, if you have read anything else in this series, you will know happens to me rather often these days. In no particular order, here are some of my favourites…
Some Favourite Macrame Blogs to Read
Marching North
Marching North is a warm, well-photographed blog with a proper library of free patterns and tutorials, each with written steps, photos and a video to follow along with. Her collection of 60 Macrame Knots and Knot Patterns is exactly the kind of reference I wish I had found on day one, and her framing that “every macrame project out there uses a combination of five knots” is more or less what I have been telling you here too.
Macrame for Beginners
Run by Marloes, Macrame for Beginners is probably the biggest dedicated macrame blog going, with well over a thousand free patterns and a large, active community behind it. She has teamed up with a number of other macrame teachers to keep the tutorials coming, and her free knot guide is a lovely companion to the one I have written for this site.
Bochiknot
Bochiknot is run by Nicole, who has been teaching macrame for years and has taken tens of thousands of people through her free tutorials. Her 12 Free Macramé Projects for Beginners is beautifully organised by skill level, and her cord and materials guides are some of the clearest I have come across — I referred to them myself while writing my own.
Ganxxet
Ganxxet sell cord as well as write about it, which normally makes me a little wary, but their pattern library is genuinely generous and ranges from an easy hat hanger for your worn-out sun hats right through to necklaces, feather earrings and a rather lovely fruit hammock. Good photography, and sensible advice on matching cord weight to project.
Macrame School
Macrame School has an enormous archive of free patterns sorted by type — wall hangings, plant hangers, jewellery, keychains, bookmarks, mandalas and dream catchers among them. It is more of a resource library than a blog you sit down and read cover to cover, but as a place to go looking for a specific project, it is hard to beat.
Mary Maker Studio
Mary Maker Studio is one of the very few macrame businesses I have found that is properly Australian, cord and all. Brydie’s story of finding macrame after “someone in my life sharply told me to get a hobby” made me laugh out loud, and her free beginner wall hanging pattern is worth a look if you would rather buy your cord locally, as I generally try to.
Cotton Knots
Also Australian, Cotton Knots is a small Melbourne-based supplier run by Vanda, who writes candidly about her own beginnings — “I untied more knots than I could count” is a sentence I recognise rather too well. A nice one to follow if you like knowing there is a real person and a real workshop behind the cord you are buying.
Gathered
Gathered is a general craft site rather than a macrame specialist, but their round-up of free macrame patterns pulls together some lovely projects from around the web — a knotted mandala, a table runner, a little macrame purse — with enough variety to send you off in several directions at once.
So that is a round-up of some of my favourite macrame blogs to read. Do you have any others that are your favourites? I’d love to hear what they are. Add them in the comments below.
