Merry Macrame: Craft Your Way to a Handmade Holiday

by Benjamin Wallace

Welcome to Merry Craft Your Way to a Handmade Holiday! This book is designed to bring the joy, warmth, and creativity of the holiday season into your home through the art of macrame. Whether you're a seasoned crafter or just starting out, the patterns and projects in this book will help you transform simple cords and knots into festive holiday decor, personalized gifts, and cherished keepsakes. There’s something magical about creating beautiful, handmade decorations, and macrame is an ideal medium to add a cozy, bohemian touch to your Christmas celebration.

Merry Macrame is a carefully designed book that walks you through a range of holiday-themed projects, each with step-by-step drawings and comprehensive instructions. Each chapter focuses on a different kind of holiday project, ranging from making beautiful tree ornaments and seasonal wall hangings to making adorable garlands, wreaths, and even accents for gifts. For those who are up for a challenge, there is a combination of more complex patterns as well as quick, beginner-friendly designs.

To ensure that you can enjoy the creative process without feeling overburdened, each project has been planned with simplicity in mind. Ultimately, you will have produced handcrafted holiday mementos that showcase your distinct sense of style and passion for crafting.

Take pleasure in making something with your hands this Christmas season. Every project offers a chance to calm down, savor the moment, and celebrate the spirit of the season, whether you're doing it alone as a tranquil winter hobby or organizing a macrame Christmas get-together with loved ones. Let each knot in this book help you get a little bit closer to the joy, love, and creativity that are the real meaning of the holidays.

Happy knotting, and may this book inspire you to create a beautiful, handmade holiday season!

74 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2024

About the author

Benjamin Wallace has written for GQ, Details, Food & Wine, Salon, and The Washington Post. He grew up in Washington, DC, and graduated from Georgetown University. From 1990 to 1992, he lived in the Czech Republic and Hungary, teaching English, proofreading diplomatic documents at the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and writing for such newspapers as The Prague Post, The Budapest Post, and The European. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a reporter for trade publications in Manhattan, including a magazine about magazines and a mergers-and-acquisitions newsletter. From 1996 to 2005, he worked at Philadelphia magazine, most recently as executive editor. In 2002, the Columbia Journalism Review named him one of “ten young writers on the rise.” The Billionaire’s Vinegar is his first book. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.