Macrame Flower Bead Keychains
These Macrame Flower Bead Keychains are so cute and make a great accessory for your keys, bags, backpacks, diaper bags., etc.
Macrame is one of those crafts where you need no special tools, just your hands! Using just a few knots, you can create a variety of beautiful and useful things.
I have been learning Macrame for the past 6 months or so, I am no expert and am still learning. I follow and have subscribed to many YouTube channels. If you are learning too, I would love to share my favorites with you:
I know it is a long list! But, it’s great to watch different videos as each person has a different way of explaining. So you never know which one works best for you! I am truly grateful to all these creators for sharing their knowledge and expertise with all of us.
This macrame flower with beads is from a tutorial by Kathy of Gray Wonders. Her tutorial is a DIY Macrame Flower with beads.
She posted this tutorial recently and I loved it! I thought it would be beautiful as a keychain.
So, I decided to try it out and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to make and how beautiful it looked! I loved it so much, I ended up making these for my Etsy shop! If you would like to take a look at my shop, click here.
What are the supplies for making these Macrame Flower Bead Keychains?
Cotton cord 3 mm – 2 colors ( My soft recycled cotton cord is from Ganxxet.com) (The colors I used for these keychains are red, natural, yellow and kelly green)
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How do you make these Macrame Flower Bead Keychains?
Attach your cords to the keychain clasp.
Follow this video from Gray Wonders.
After you make one flower, tie 3 or 4 square knots with the green cord.
That’s it!
Just trim the cords. Brush them out and you have a pretty flower bead keychain!
Notes:
I used tape on the ends of the cord to get the wooden bead to go through.
Brush out the tassel and trim it at any length you like. You can use spray starch if you like to stiffen the tassel.
If you like macrame, do check out my other simple macrame projects:
Simple Macrame Statement Earrings
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5 Useful Crochet Projects
These 5 Useful Crochet Projects are easy to do and make great handmade gifts for your family and friends!
Crochet is one of those hobbies with which you can make a lot of useful things. You can make them in whichever color you want to match your decor or your style.
There are so many free patterns available, all you have to do is search on google, or if you are a visual person like me search on Pinterest.
I have saved so many patterns that I wonder if I will ever be able to try all of them!
However, I am sharing the patterns that I have tried and liked. Thank you to these wonderful designers who have shared these patterns for free! Please do visit their websites to get the patterns. I will provide the links below.
Here are the 5 Useful Crochet Projects that I have tried and loved:
Crochet Potholder
This potholder is really thick and made of cotton yarn. Cotton yarn is recommended for making potholders. This pattern is worked in the round with just single crochet! So it is easy to do and can be made in a few hours if you have the time. It actually took a few days as I worked on it maybe around an hour every day for about 3 to 4 days. I used almost one whole skein of cotton yarn. I bought my yarn at Walmart.
You can find the pattern here: Super Easy Crochet Potholder
Crochet Coasters/Mug Rugs
I absolutely love the way these turned out! You can make these really fast, I think I made 2 a day probably just working on them for about an hour or 2. These were easy to make, and you just add tassels to make them look really cute.
Make sets of these to give as gifts, I’m sure your family and friends will love this useful beautiful gift.
The pattern is by Amanda at Love & Stitch.com and can be found here. The Darcie mug rug
Key Ring Wrist Lanyard
Have you ever had to go out somewhere with just your keys and not have anywhere to put them? If you didn’t have any pockets or if you didn’t want to carry your handbag. I’ve been in this situation many times when taking my kids to the park. I always ended up carrying my keys in my hand. These lanyards work up very fast and can solve this problem. So now I just put my keys on this lanyard and slide it on my wrist. This makes a really useful gift. You can make several of these in a day. It took less than 30 minutes to make one.
This pattern is from Lisa at Stitch in Progress, it can be found here.
Cotton Bath Scrubbies
These bath scrubbers are so quick to do, you can make one in 10 minutes. Make them in different colors.
I found that these do not lather very well, so I tried one with acrylic yarn, which worked a little better. Let me know if you find the perfect yarn to make these.
I am all for reducing my plastic waste, so I started using these instead of plastic loofahs which are really bad for the environment.
This pattern is by Marie at Makes and Takes, You can find the pattern here Crochet Bath Scrubbies
UPDATE: After a lot of trials and errors, I have finally found the bath scrubber that works well! So I have an entire post on them, Bath Scrubbers Do check it out.
Scrunchies
Scrunchies have become very popular nowadays. These velvet scrunchies as so soft and can be made in less than half an hour. These make great gifts too. You can make them in several colors, not just velvet but lots of other yarns too.
This pattern is by Marianne at Yarnworx Studio. You can find her pattern here Velvety Scrunchies
UPDATE: These velvet scrunchies are now available in my Etsy shop!
Hope you enjoyed reading about these projects and will try some of them out.
A huge thank you to all the designers for sharing these amazing patterns for free.
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Thank you so much for visiting!!
If you don’t know how to crochet and would like to learn, please read this Learn how to crochet
and Learn the Basic Crochet Stitches
Crochet is fun and a great stress buster! I am sure you will not regret learning!:)
Happy Crocheting!