DIY: MACRAME ANGEL | STEP BY STEP | MACRAME CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT

So today we're going to make our angel ornament and to start what I've done I have these I think they're four millimeter um multiply rope I've cut them I've cut five to eight inches and I'm just pulling them apart. This is going to make the hair. Once you have that done I'm taking my one inch wood bead. I taped up the ends of this piece this is actually just butcher twine and I cut it to 24 inches and this is going to make the hanger and hold everything into place really. So I'm gonna sneak these through there there we go so once I have that nice loop up there I'm gonna take the hair that we've made put it through find the center point we'll do our best to find the center point pretty good I'm just going to pull it down this part we can arrange better later there we go to secure that part I'm just going to tie a regular overhand knot here so there's the hair. Now that we have the hair done we are going to attach the wings and I have my 42 inch piece of cord I'm going to place that that's the center part I've folded in half and place it right behind these two strings here to make this part easier we're going to attach it with the double clove hitch knot so I recommend putting that one into place just so that when this this one ties up it doesn't wobble around too too much and this can get tricky with this moving but I'll try my best to show you I'm just going to go over like that and the second one to close it so just that first one can be a little bit tricky but we'll get it do the same on the second cord for the next part we're going to attach the cords that are going to make the wings um usually I'd be working on a clipboard or whatnot but just the lighting and everything didn't work so I'm just going to I don't really recommend doing this to it's poor hair but I have to secure it the head into place or else it's going to be crazy trying to get these on and knotting okay that should be good now I'm going to attach each of my 40 inch cord and I folded them all in half I'm just going to go behind over so it's like a reverse larks head knot pull it nice and tight push it towards that center but before I do because I want a little bit more spacing I'm just going to do one single hitch knot with the farthest cord there that's towards the outside just to space these cords that are coming out a little bit more as you can see I've attached all five cords on either side and now I'm going to start the actual wings and you can make it so that they point up like this straight out but for me I'm going to have them just slightly downwards just like the look of it okay I'm going to keep these two that came through the head part out of the way and I'm going to use this very first one here I'm just going to do a row of diagonal clove hitch knots this way coming downwards so you can see that first little row is done I left just a little bit of space there and again as you can see as I was working my way down I just kept moving them into the direction that I wanted them to go in okay so that's the way you can customize for yourself to your liking and each time I come down a row I do include that filler cord in my knots as well so I'm just going to continue that for a few more rows all right so I've come down I did one two three four five rows and for the last one how I'm going to do it is as I go down I'm going to attach all of those cords I'm going to gather them in so I'll show you so it comes down in just one piece okay so instead of leaving that out I'm just going to gather it in and instead of leaving it out I'm just going to gather it in and you're going to do that the whole way down okay so you can see it just came down and it gathered all up into one place and now I'm not going to bore you with this but I'm going to do the other side so I'm going to do five rows shaping them slightly downwards because when it comes down it's going to look like that in the dress and then gathering them up at the bottom as well all right so both of my wings are done and now these two right here that are holding those into place I'm just going to do a regular knot or maybe twice just to be sure there we go now I have 14 pieces of four millimeter cord this is a single ply these are cut to 16 inches each and I'm just going to divide it into two so seven in each so there's seven and I'm just going to make sure that the ends match up find the center and now I'm going to drape that over and behind so this will be the dress so you just want to arrange it so that these pieces look nice coming down now I'm happy with that so I have a scrap piece of the two millimeter cord and I'm going to detach this hair now and from behind I keep those in order I'll make the gathering knot just so that this back knot part doesn't show so you make the little loop I'm just going to wrap it around a few times bring it back through that loop pull that top one up now see how they're all loose in here so we're just going to push it up and pull those down so that they're all nice now you can see where we're at so I just want to push this upwards a little bit more and tug some of down so that it's all nice and uniform now it looks like a mess but it's going to look good in a second so here's how the wings are and to clean this up I'm just going to cut off this excess here and if you prefer you can always use some fabric glue whatnot to secure it now to make the hanger come out of the top I've just put some jute twine into a knitting needle I'm just going to thread it right through there now we have the hanger and you can take a comb and comb out the hair and obviously this needs a lot of tidying up but there you go there's your angel