Macrame book mark

By Stefan Hedman, www.steffe.se/makrame

You'll need yarn in three colours; here I've used black, yellow and red. You'll need
3 yellow, 6 red and 1 black.They should be at least 120cm of length and folded on
the middle so they are 60 cm when you start tying.
Start to put up some threads using the black thread, reversed half-hitches, as the
picture below show. Observe that you need to do this on the middle of every
thread. Also observe the order of colours.

Make two
macrame knots
in the middle of
the red thread
groups.

Make double
half-hitches of
the yellow pairs
of threads. No
difference in
witch direction.

Keep on making
double halfhitches until the
yellow threads
meet again (the
outer yellow
threads will come
to the black ones.

Make macrame
knots of the red
groups again.

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Make some
reversed halfhitches with the
outer black
threads on both
sides.

Continue with the

yellow ones until they
meet again. Make
macrame knots of the
red thread groups as
before. Then make
reversed half-hitches
with the black threads
again.

two double half-hitches of the

9 Tie
outer red thread pairs.
Then tie reversed half-hitched of the
black threads. As you'll see, this
should be made every second knot.
Now you should be able to continue
by yourself. Tie red macrame knots,
double half-hitches of the yellow and
reversed of the black. Good luck!

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By Stefan Hedman, www.steffe.se/makrame

Finish the book

mark by making
a row of black
half-hitches,
moving towars
the middle with
the outer black
threads. Stop
when they meet.