macramé.

DIY macramé curtain

+ hanging planter

two months ago

i've discovered my interest in macramé

initially,

i planned to make a small one

but when i was wondering where to buy the string

i looked at my string curtain

that i bought years ago

then said to myself

"hey, i actually already have the material"

if you have a string curtain

you surely know that they always

managed to get themselves entangled

i thought the idea to make a macrame out of it

could also be a big help

so there i was

tried to make a big macramé curtain

as my first attempt

google was my mentor

she taught me about the basic knots

. . .

FIRST PROBLEM

the strings were too thin

my solution was to bind 10 strings into one

to make it thicker

before i started working on it

i thought i could finish the whole curtain

within a week

i was completely wrong

got more than 1250 strings to work with

and it took me two days

just to divide those 1250-ish strings

into 128 small group of 10 strings

SECOND PROBLEM

my ceiling heights are about 3 metres

ladder is needed to reach the top of the curtain

i had to constantly stand on the ladder

and raise my hands for hours to do the job

my hands and feet were really tired

couldn't hold more than 8 hours a day

THIRD PROBLEM

didn't have any particular design in my mind

had no idea what the result would look like

it was totally spontaneous

no design means trial and error

there were times,

i had been working for an hour (or more)

then i took a moment

to see how it is from a distance
and at that moment i just realized
i had made a mistake

or i just didn't like how it turned out

so i must undo and redo it again

for another hour(s)

i ended up
spending more than two weeks

to finish it

and to be honest

still not 100% satisfied with the result

i still want to add and adjust few more things

but it was very time consuming

so i decided to leave it as it is now