by Chica and Jo

Sometimes the projects we try fail miserably, no matter how much we want to make them work.  I know you’ve all experienced that before and feel our pain… that why CraftFails is around, right?  I had just such a failure this weekend, and because it’s only fair to share the bad as well as the good, I want to show you what happened.

I have been wanting to do something with macrame lately, and looking for a good material and project. I thought I had the perfect material when I found a bundle of poly rope in the corner of the garage. It was colorful and I thought it was soft and flexible enough to macrame with just fine.

I had the brilliant idea of making a doormat out of it. It’s outdoor rope, after all, so it would be sturdy and strong and would make such a neat addition to our front porch.

Except it totally didn’t work.

I almost don’t even want to show you, but I have to!

In retrospect, I see what went wrong. The rope was too firm to tie into tight knots. It was too thick to make a finished mat that was thin enough to be usable. And most of all, I just did it wrong! I didn’t even realize until I looked at the picture just now.

Despite the dozens of macrame projects I did as a kid, back when macrame was “cool”, I thought I remembered what to do for this project. But I see now that I completely forgot to work with four cords at a time instead of two, so my piece had no stability or structure when it was done.

If you don’t know what I mean by that, don’t worry — I am going to try to macrame again and I promise this time I’ll hopefully get better results, because I’ll work with better materials!

–Chica

www.ChicaAndJo.com

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