Macramé plant hangers have become quite popular these days. I thought it would be complex to create one but my first project actually went smoothly and I think it is ideal to do as a sunday afternoon project. When you only know a couple of macramé knots you can already make a varied set of different looking hangers.
For this first project I got inspired by a local restaurant where they had big plants hanging in glass balls with macramé. The glass balls made the overal look very fancy and modern. So I ordered a ball of 27 cm diameter size and with a small opening (available at www.amazon.nl) and found nice macramé yarn and a wooden ring in our local craft store. With a bit of research on the internet, I selected 2 basic knots (the square knot and the spiral knot) to use and found that my ropes needed to be of ~7 meter long. So far so good….
The glass ball looked great when I received it and I bought a nice plant to go with it. I worked on the macramé knots and pretty quickly I was already close to the end. When fitting the glass ball I found that the plant I bought actually didnot fit into it….only very small size plants can be used, not what I had in mind…. When further fitting the macramé around the ball I even dropped it and it fell into 100 pieces….
So my first project was a bit of a disaster. The glass ball was interesting as an idea but I think it needs to have a much wider opening in order to give the effect I had wanted. Being pragmatic I ended up with another nice pot and I am actually quite happy with the result. What do you think? Do you have nice examples of glass ball macramé plant hangers?