3 Easy Macrame Napkin Ring DIYs for Your Handmade Wedding
Try these 3 Easy Macrame Napkin Ring DIYs for your Handmade Boho Wedding. With just enough bling to step up your Bride’s Table style.
We’ve got a few Macrame Tutorials you’ll love to try, like this angel and feather, and this heart ring frame.
So we think you’ll love to try these easy napkin rings, which can actually be used for any tablescape. They’d dress up any casual dinner party or special family birthday table.
And the best part? They can be made with the short ends left over after a larger project. We’re all about less waste and using things up. These little designs are perfect for reducing trash and saving money.
3 Easy Macrame Napkin Ring DIYs:
We’ll list the options from easiest to most difficult. Although none of them are super hard, and they’re all quick projects.
The supplies are the same for each design.
Supplies:
- 3 mm cotton macrame cord*
- wooden rings*
- blingy rhinestone and pearl buttons*, optional
- tape measure, scissors, painter’s or clear tape, tacky glue*
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Fringed Napkin Ring:
- Cut (or find in your leftovers stash) 21 or 22 pieces of cord, 6″ long.
- Fold a cord in half.
- Tuck the folded end down through the ring.
- Grab the loop outside the ring and draw the ends of the cord through the loop. This is a lark’s head knot.
- Repeat this with all the cords, until the whole ring is snugly wrapped.
- Comb out the ends of the cords to create a smooth fringe.
- Trim the fringe all around the ring with the scissors. We left about 3/4″ of fringe beyond the lark’s head knot loops.
- Glue buttons to the ring if desired.
Square Knot Diamond Napkin Ring:
- Cut (or find in your stash of leftover pieces) 6 pieces of 20″ to 24″ length of cord.
- Fold a cord in half.
- Tuck the folded end down through the ring from the top.
- Grab the loop outside the ring and draw the ends of the cord through the loop. This is a lark’s head knot.
- Repeat this with all 6 cords.
- Find the 4 center cords. Drop down about an inch, and tie a square knot.
- With the 2 left cords of the square knot, and 2 cords to the left of the knot, tie a square knot. The 2 left cords will be about 1 1/4″ long before the knot. Do this with the 2 right cords of the center square knot, adding 2 right cords to finish this second row of 2 square knots.
- Make a row of 3 square knots with all the cords.
- Drop 2 cords, and make a row of 2 square knots.
- Drop another 2 cords, and make one last square knot with the 4 center cords. You now have a small diamond shape of square knots.
- Comb out the fringes and trim to about 1″ to 1.5″ long.
- Glue a pearl or rhinestone and pearl bling button to the center of the diamond.
Wrapped Fringe Napkin Ring Directions:
- Cut (or find in your stash of leftover pieces) a 24″ to 30″ length of cord.
- Leave a 6″ end, then wind the long end around and around the ring. Keep the loops tight and close to each other. Quit winding when you have about a 1.25″ gap on the ring without cord.
- I glued the cords onto the ring to keep them in place so they couldn’t unravel while doing the rest of the design.
- Cut or find 6 cords that measure 20″ in length. Fold in half and tie to the unwrapped part of the ring with lark’s head knots.
- Tie a square knot with the 4 cords on the left, and the 4 cords on the right.
- Pick up the 2 center cords. With the left of these cords, tie double half hitch knots with all the cords, going to the left.
- Do this with the center right cord, tying double half hitches towards the right with the right side cords.
- Grab all the cords except for the second left and second right cords. With these outer cords, tie a square knot around all the 6 loose center cords.
- Now tie double half hitches onto the left and right end cords, towards the center.
- You now have a diamond shape created by the double half hitch knots, with a large square knot in the center.
- Glue a pearl or rhinestone/pearl button to the large center square knot, if desired.
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