{"id":10722,"date":"2026-08-02T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:08:37","slug":"makramee-lillepotiumbris-ehk-kui-sormed-keelduvad-enam-heegelnoela-hoidmast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/makramee-lillepotiumbris-ehk-kui-sormed-keelduvad-enam-heegelnoela-hoidmast\/","title":{"rendered":"Macram\u00e9 plant pot cover, or when your fingers refuse to hold a crochet hook any longer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\"Makramee<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Valmis<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Six chair covers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone simply says it out loud, it does not sound like anything special. But when you have crocheted all six chair covers yourself, you know very well that at some point your fingers look you straight in the eye and announce quite firmly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not crocheting another single stitch today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fair enough. If the fingers still want to do something, let them. Just something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a whole army of houseplants at home that I have \u201crescued from death\u201d at Maxima. The poor things come home with me almost every time their price label turns yellow. Most of them recover nicely. But the plant pots… well, they are exactly what shop-bought plant pots usually are. One grey, another greenish, a third brown. Not one of them suits my taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I dug out my leftover macram\u00e9 cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was just enough green cord to fall slightly short of covering one pot. At first I thought that was a pity. Then I added some white. Looking back, it was actually a stroke of luck. The two-colour version turned out far more interesting than plain green would have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I made the cover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First I measured the circumference around the top edge of the pot. Mine was 33 cm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using that measurement, I cut the cord to which I would attach all the other cords. I added about 20 cm<\/strong>to leave enough extra for tying the knot. So this cord was 53 cm<\/strong>long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next I measured all the remaining cords. I took the distance from the top edge of the pot to the bottom, doubled it and added another 20 cm<\/strong> of extra length. Mine actually ended up a little too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But experience comes into play here. I already learnt this lesson with the rug. It is better for a cord to be slightly too long than a couple of centimetres too short. No amount of persuasion will stretch a short cord any longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One triangle takes six cords<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made one triangle first and measured it. It was about 5.5 cm<\/strong>wide. Since the circumference of the pot was 33 cm<\/strong>, that meant exactly six triangles<\/strong>would fit around the pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cut another 35 cords<\/strong>, because instead of one cord I used the ends left over from the knot. Altogether the project used 36 cords<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attached all the cords to the cord cut for the circumference using a reverse lark\u2019s head knot<\/strong> and divided them into groups of six, meaning 12 cord ends<\/strong> in each group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attachment knot (lark\u2019s head knot)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First I attached all the green cords. Then I added the white cords between them as I went, so that in the end there were alternating 3 green and 3 white triangles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Makramee<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Knotting the first triangle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First I located the top attachment knot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n