SideCapers would like to announce a second shop sharing opportunity. It’s called Market Share. Just like Promote My Shop, you are able to browse, connect and share your online store with other artists.
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Running With It
Promote My Shop
Here is a wonderful place to meet artists from all over.
You can also add your site. The promotion runs for a week starting every Wednesday. On the following Thursday you are able to enter your shop again. I have set an alarm to remind myself to Promote My Shop each week.
So stop by, look around and add your shop to the mix.
Have a great day!
What Are Your Preferences?
Acquiring A Tan For Summer
Here is my recommended tan for the summer. Either of these are great for any summer outing; wedding, picnic or birthday parties. Or use these to add a little spring to your work week.
Purse number 1 on the left is made on a 12″ flex frame, giving it a dressier look. It measures 13″ x 11″ with more of a 14″ base and ample shoulder strap. There are 2 white and gold buttons on the front only. The interior liner is white with tiny white daisies. There are two ample pockets on the inside, one along the front and one on the back. The flex frame closure keeps the contents of your purse inside. It also stays open the entire time you are looking for an item.
Purse number 2 on the right measures 10″ x 10″ with the strap cords continuing down throughout the length of the purse. This gives it great strength. The tapered sides allows you to open the sides wide apart for easy access. The three bead pattern is mirrored on both sides and the interior is white without any pattern, but has two good size pockets as the first purse. Both are easy clean.
The choice is yours.
Why go out without a little tan.
I can guarantee that it will brighten your day.
Click on the Purse Store tab to see these and other special macrame purses.
Always remember to,
Be creative!
New Milestone
You make me feel like dancing…
…1000 and counting
Question
Hanging Macrame Chair
According to my WordPress Stats, someone is looking for a pattern on a macrame hanging chair. If you read my post from December 31, 2011, And It Begins… you will know that I did find the pattern for the chair I planned on making 30 years ago.
two 26″ wrought iron rings make up this macrame hanging chair
It took quite a while to find it originally because I did a search using the words hanging chair, hanging macrame chair, but came up with nothing. Then I found in eBay the book that I used to have that has a picture of a woman sitting in the chair, wearing a bikini, next to other objects that you can making from this booklet. And there it was; they called it the Bird Cage, who would guess that.
Today I re-visited the site where the free pattern was and found that it no longer exists.
I will continue to look for the original pattern from 1977.
New Display
With new management comes new ideas. I think this is brilliant.
After a wall is removed and another wall is cut in half and the bottom half is made very useful. This is so much better that the clothes rack from before (see Setting Up Shop from January 28th).
Hometown Talents & Treasures is now known as Inspired For You and its management has far exceeded future plans within one month than the ideas from before. More thought and time is given to each one of the venders within the store to help boost sales.
We salute you Stacy!!
I am so much more optimistic about selling within the community than ever before. Farmer’s Market is just around the corner and we will be selling right in the middle of it instead out on the fringe. There will be the city events that the store will be apart of in parks and festivals this summer. Stacy has added radio advertising that has already seen new visitors because of it.
I will be giving reports as the summer goes on. I am so tickled right now about the possibilities.
As always, continue to
Be Creative.
700 And Counting!
Thank you to everyone for a milestone of 700 check-ins.
I really appreciate your interest in the goings on here at SideCapers Macrame.
To be honest, blog writing is very new to me. I took quite a while to convince myself that I had anything interesting to share. Now I strive to be as thorough as possible in my explanations of the purses that I make without being boring and redundant.
I have decided to write as though you have completed basic projects before, so if there is a portion that you do not understand and wish to know how to arrive at a certain point, please ask and I will explain further.
Again, I thank you for taking an interest in someone who has re discovered the art of macrame.
Continue moving forward and Be Creative!
This Was Fun To Make
Isn’t this different? I really enjoyed making this purse. It has such a classic look. This can be made this way or drop the shoulder straps and start the body right from a wooden grasp handle to have a hand bag.
After constructing the handles, I crossed over one left strand to the right strap and one right over to the left to bridge the two straps. Four cactus green, then eight white and then the last four green are larks head knotted over the bridge. This is repeated on the other side. A square knot on the strap is added to line up with the first green SK on each side. Two black cords, folded in half are added, one row at a time to all four corners. At this point the base is made. Fourteen rows of alternating square knots are made decreasing by one with each row until you are left with one knot to make in the last row, forming a V shape. 
Once this is completed on both sides of the purse, you lay them side by side with right sides facing up. Pin them to a board with the end knots at the top just touching.
The first cord from the right purse side is crossed over the left purse side along the bottom edge of the finished square knots. Double half hitches are made over this cord using all the cords from the left purse side down to the last white to the inside of the black cord. Then the top cord on the left crosses over the right purse side and double half hitches are made over on the right side.
This continues in an alternating pattern to form the side of the purse and attach the left and right sides together.
It will be complete after the last black cord is hitched over and moved to the bottom. Now one green SK is placed at the base of the black in the middle using two green cords from the right and two green from the left side. Continue alternating the SK until eight rows are completed down into the white area. It is a little hard to image that it is the side of the purse until you unpin and refold the purse lining up the handles. The other side will need to have this done also.
Here you can see with the realignment that only one side is done.
Open up the purse once again and fold it so that the loose cords meet and touch as they did with the first side. The finished side is to the back. You will need to pin through both layers to secure it. Again start with the top cord from one side and cross it over the other side and double half hitch down the eight rows per side until all eight black cords from each side have moved to the bottom of the purse. 
Finish with the eight alternating SK down through the white cords at the bottom. You will see that there are the black cords left in the front and back. Just like the side bottoms, make alternating SK, but there will be only four rows. This should bring all the cords finished evenly. To bring all sections together, make two final rows of alternating SK all the way around. Turn the purse inside out and tie off to close, cut and melt ends. Turn right side out and line the inside.
The finished size is 12″ x 9.5″ with a strap height of 11″. The colors used are black, cactus green and white. The ribs formed by the half hitches give a round, full look to the entire purse.
Let me know what you think of this design. I think it could go with most outfits.
Until the next project,
Be creative!
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