Macramé Pattern Books for Lawn Chairs

[ChrisMiss]

I found 2 pattern books for macramé lawn chairs at a thrift store yesterday.  I’ve always liked those chairs so I bought the pattern books and I got them both for only 99 cents.   I also looked online and there are many interesting patterns available for free or to buy.  

I can pick up used lawn chairs at thrift stores for a very low price to use as the base for these creations.  I’m going to try and make one or two this winter.  Has anyone else made any of these chairs?  It’s a good recycle for those chairs when that cheap webbing breaks.  I think they’re more attractive than webbing too.

[auction1]

you can find chairs for free in early spring when people are cleaning out their closets for new summer items....also try free cycle.com someone may have them and not want them and you could just pick them up for just the cost of gas mileage

[ChrisMiss]

That's a good idea.  I just missed 2 for free the other day.  Some one had set them out by the dumpster and before I could get to the chairs someone else drove up and got them.  But I did find one at the thrift store on Friday.  So now I'm going to get some macrame supplies and try to do this.  I've never done macrame before but have always liked it. 

[Cookie]

I've never heard of macrame lawn chairs, but it's a good idea and definitely would be sturdier than the cheap stuff on there.  Sounds like you've found a new hobby!  Pretty soon you'll be making plant holders and purses, too, I bet.

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Sounds like a nice, useful project for macrame. I've heard the macrame hammocks work out really well, too.

You might however want to avoid some of THESE projects (haha):

http://web.mac.com/thriftshopromantic/iWeb/The_Thrift_Shop_Romantic/Macrame_Projects.html

[Cookie]

TSR, that is EXCELLENT commentary on those macrame books.  You are so funny!!!  Look out James Lileks, TSR is stepping up to the plate!

[Jay2TheRescue]

That's a good idea.  I just missed 2 for free the other day.  Some one had set them out by the dumpster and before I could get to the chairs someone else drove up and got them.  But I did find one at the thrift store on Friday.  So now I'm going to get some macrame supplies and try to do this.  I've never done macrame before but have always liked it. 

Hmmm, macrame.  I'm having a bad 70's flashback right now, but I think that is has something to do with the fact that in the 70's macrame was an obsession of my mother's and it was all over the house (a lot more than was normal for the time period.)  I am thankful that my mother never got the idea of making clothes out of macrame.

-Jay

[foutchie]

TSR - love your macrame commentary - so right on the money yet so so hilarious too!

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Ha, thanks, folks-- glad you got a laugh out of it too. I made quite a spectacle of myself I'm sure when I uncovered those books in the Goodwill.

I think what makes some of those projects so funny is their lack of practical function, for the huge amount of work that goes into it.

I'll love to see Chris's chair when she makes it-- I UNDERSTAND putting the effort into making a durable chair. I get the belts, and other wearable items, too...

I don't so much get the joy in encasing one's chandelier in a cage of fiber. 

[superiorgirl]

Hey! Be careful! I STILL have my macrame owl!! It's jute and hanging in the basement. About the time I think I can donate it to a ts I figure it will be a collectible of great value and I change my mind and leave it hanging. My macrame' room divider was sold at a garage sale and I think it still had a vague herbal aroma left over from a different life time. Ahhh, those were the days my friend!

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

You know, your macrame owl probably WILL be a huge collectible item at some point. It's so representative of the time period, and I'm sure many people have lost track of theirs over the years.

[Jay2TheRescue]

Hey! Be careful! I STILL have my macrame owl!! It's jute and hanging in the basement. About the time I think I can donate it to a ts I figure it will be a collectible of great value and I change my mind and leave it hanging. My macrame' room divider was sold at a garage sale and I think it still had a vague herbal aroma left over from a different life time. Ahhh, those were the days my friend!

OH GOD THE OWL!!!  We had so many of those when I was a kid, and too many macrame plant hangars to count.  Some of the plant hangars were 2 & 3 tier!  You can never put too many plants on one hook hanging from the cieling.  Mom's favorite plant to put in them was spider plants, and she'd let them grow long and shaggy.

-Jay

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Jay and all, you are making me laugh!  It is soooooooooooo "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Rhoda" and also, not coincidentally, my first apartment in 1973 and my second apartment in 1976, and my 4th apartment in 1979...

As a gift, my beau's mom (one of the ladies who lunched back in the day) gave me a double-tiered hanger, about five feet long, back in 1974, which I still have!     

Flashback!

[ChrisMiss]

I always wanted one of those macrame hanging glass tables.  I also wanted a tiered plant hanger, finally got one and decided it was a pain so gave it away. 

Yesterday while shopping at one of my favorite thrift stores I found another lawn chair, this one was only 88 cents.  My husband laughed so much when he saw it.  It does look pathetic, I think there's only about 3 webbings left, it's dirty but I think of its potential.  So I decided I'm going to take pictures during the process of transforming this chair into a thing of beauty, well I hope it will be a thing of beauty.  Now I have to get the cording and get started.  Well, first I have to clean and paint my poor pathetic chair. 

I can't believe it's taken this long to find a lawn chair.  I guess many of these more vintage chairs people are either keeping them or selling them.  I see plenty of the chairs made with that plastic tubing stuff but those chair frames weren't very comfortable to me.  I wanted and finally found the thicker aluminum colored rounded edges frame.  Here's a link that has free patterns.  They have supplies you can order, even chairs.http://www.kingskountry.com/free-macrame-lawn-chair-instructions.htm  But I got my patterns and chairs at a thrift store.  I think I'll have to buy my cording at a craft store because I haven't seen any cording at a thrift store in ages.
 

[oceangurl]

Oh Macrame! How painful! I do remember the horrid Owls, to me always in a burnt color, like orange and yucky yellow, and gross advocato! I remember making Macrame belts with the two metal rings that you loop the belt through, I used to wear those (proudley) with my orange hiphugger bellbottom courterouy pants, even had the pants, same style different color in lime green! Oh the pain , glad their are nooooo pictures to comemorate such fashion faux paus!