{KISS How To} Hangers – Macrame Style

*Notes from TJ on these hangers-

I come from a long line of altered hanger makers.  That big pile of covered hangers is evidence of many years of great-grandma and grandma using up their yarn scraps.  Every year at Christmas I’d get another half-dozen for my collection.  Now I have a closet full of them, and anybody who ever uses one wants to know where I got them because they are so functional.  (Everything you hang on them stays hung up unlike cheap plastic hangers or even the expensive slippery wood ones that take up so much room on the closet rod).  This craft uses the same basic macrame half-knot that I shared in the friendship bracelet.  Except this time, you’re working the knots around the hanger instead of anchored ribbons.  And this time instead of working from left to right alternately, you’ll work three left and then three right alternately.

1. Tape together two hangers together in a few places to keep them in place.
2. Starting at the very nose of the hook.  I find it easiest to hold the hangers in between my knees and work with both hands.
3. Tuck the yarn ends in between the two hangers that are taped together.
4. Just like in the friendship bracelet, work one ball of yarn from the left side by bringing it OVER the hanger and then back through itself UNDER the hanger.  Make your macrame knots over the loose ends, covering them and securing them into place.  (Much like how you begin in cross stitch).
5. Make three knots from the left and then reverse the process to make three knots from the ball of yarn on the right.  Continue to work your knots all the way around the hanger.
6. When you meet your knots back at the beginning by the neck, cut a long end piece from each ball of yarn. (18″- 2′ long)
7. Coil and stack little figure 8’s with these ends.  To secure, tie a smaller piece of yarn in the center of the 8’s to create a bow.

Happy Crafting!

~Heather

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