Many years ago, I think it was 1996 or 1997 , we had a couple of folding lawn chairs that had the plastic webbing breaking off. My friend, Kathy W, helped teach me how to weave macrame yarn in fun patterns one of the chair frames. I did one chair in this hot air balloon pattern. Then life went on and the other 2 chair frames that I had didn't get finished. I thought about finishing them a number of times but it just didn't happen. In the meantime I collected up 3 more chairs. Last spring I decided that I was going to get them done. I talked to Kathy and she said that she couldn't remember how to start the weaving but had her instructions that were the same as the instructions I had. One day I opened the Nickel Ads and a B&D ad jumped out at me. It said that they were having a clearance sale on their macrame for $1.99 a skein, regular price was around $8. So I hustled down and bought enough yarn to finish the chairs. I found a "new" friend that was willing to help me get started and she was willing to share her patterns.
Here is the Hot Air balloon chair...
Here are the chairs before:
These 2 have wooden arm rests that needed to be refinished.
I had started weaving this one before I thought to get the before and after pictures. So this is showing how the first color is started.
Here they are all finished. It took me about 2 months to get them done.
I hope you can see the dolphins in this pattern with the seat pattern having a wave feel.
This child's chair has a teddy bear pattern.
I liked this pattern. I used the multi colored yarn as the back with the solid as the pattern.
I refinished the arm rests on these chairs. The back of the chairs are shorter that the patterns call for so William helped me chose this seat pattern to use for the whole chair. There isn't much contrast between the pink yarn and pink multi yarn. The pattern doesn't show up very well in this picture but it is that same pattern as the blue chair.
I am so glad to have these chairs finished and to cross them off my "To Do" list!
Here are the chairs before:
These 2 have wooden arm rests that needed to be refinished.
I had started weaving this one before I thought to get the before and after pictures. So this is showing how the first color is started.
I hope you can see the dolphins in this pattern with the seat pattern having a wave feel.
This child's chair has a teddy bear pattern.
I liked this pattern. I used the multi colored yarn as the back with the solid as the pattern.
I refinished the arm rests on these chairs. The back of the chairs are shorter that the patterns call for so William helped me chose this seat pattern to use for the whole chair. There isn't much contrast between the pink yarn and pink multi yarn. The pattern doesn't show up very well in this picture but it is that same pattern as the blue chair.
I am so glad to have these chairs finished and to cross them off my "To Do" list!
Wow, Mom! Very Impressive! You'll have to teach me how to do that! They all look great!
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