After my forays into loom knitting I had an epiphany about old school French knitting.
Could it be used like macrame to make plant hangers?
With some cream wool I created four strands of French knitting approximately 600mm in length.
I ran into a small hiccup with this in that the first ball of wool was from my stash, but only made two and a half strands. When I went to the shop to buy more they didn’t have it and I had to buy a different, slightly thinner ply.
Serves me right for barrelling headlong into a project without being organised. That’s typical of me!
Anyway, I decided to just keep going despite the slight differences, and thankfully it’s not obvious in the finished product.
First I tied the ends of all strands together with a knot.
Then I knotted two stands together and then the other two strands together.
Then I took one of each of the strands knotted together, and knotted those together, a bit further up.
Then I tied the top strings of the strands to a metal curtain ring.
Using the rest of those top strings I wrapped around the ring to cover it in wool.
The finishing touch was a fat woolly tassel tied to the base.