Sweet Home Macrame by Casey Alberti

I used this book to make a house warming gift for my cousins. The photo below is the temporary placement.







The corner two are actually from another book. It’s the central four plant hangers that I made from this book.











The best part of this book was the colours that the author used. The macrame books that I have chanced upon before usually use a more delicate shade to better focus on the pattern itself.



Here, the author uses bold colours to emphasize the design and even goes so far as to add paint to some embellishments. The pictures are a little misleading as to the size of the result. It is better to focus on the values provided than the picture to imagine the end. When I started my project, I envisioned it to be larger than the result I got but I went back to check, and sure enough in the individual frames that the instructions are given, we can see the size in reference to the author’s hand.



I am reviewing this book with great enthusiasm because I spent a lot of time on the project I chose. I may not have chosen the exact same colours, or even the kinds of threads but I was happy with the end result and the process of following the instructions was straightforward.



This book will work well even for beginners as long as they take it one step at a time and do things almost exactly as the author instructs. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to give macrame home projects a shot. There are a variety of ideas including and not limited to fruit baskets, plant hangers and just wall hangings.



I received an ARC thanks to Netgalley and the publishers but the review is entirely based on my own reading and working experience with the book.