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TMOD DIY (completed) Macrame Kit in mint
(Image from TMOD)
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural colour and hung out to dry.(Calvin Trillin)
Is there a verb for macramé?
My Mum macramé-d when it was last fashionable. About a million years ago. I remember her macramé onion bag. Truly. A macramé bag just for onions. If my memory serves, she was quite good at it, too.
Fast forward about a million years (or at least thirty) and Georgie Swift and Milenka Osen are the creative minds behind funky Aussie label TMOD. They’ve designed this nifty DIY macramé kit. I’m seriously considering trying it out. Only you know how I went with learning to crochet…
TMOD DIY Macrame Kit in natural
(Image from TMOD)
The girls assure me this DIY kit will make me feel proud of my craftsmanship. I would believe them, except that my crochet teacher said she could teach anyone how to crochet. I was very definitely the exception to THAT rule.
The kit apparently comes with simple easy to follow instructions to make it, then hang it in my home, and fill the glass jar with a plant, flowers, make a terrarium or even house a gold-fish?!
It includes 10 metres of rope, 4 wood beads, a glass jar, 1 ring (to hang it from), and weaving instructions…
TMOD DIY (completed) Macrame in mint and natural
(Image from TMOD)
The kit sells for AU$39.95 from the TMOD online store. There are also a variety of international stockists listed here.
What do you think? Should I risk it?
