In this easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial (DIY Diamond Macrame Wall Hanging), I’ll show you how to make this quick and easy, not to mention cute, diamond macrame wall hanging. Whether you’re a beginner or have some prior experience crafting with knots, you should have no trouble creating this wall hanging and more from the pattern I will guide you through.
This is a simple macrame wall hanging pattern for beginner/intermediate level. You will need to be familiar with the larks head knot, square knot, and double-half hitch knot. Please read my earlier article ‘Macrame for Beginners – Part 1: 4 Basic Macrame Knots‘ or watch the video ‘Macrame for beginners – part 1‘ to learn these if you’re not familiar with them. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it easy to follow.
Hey amazing writers and readers alike. If you’re a subscriber, you may have received an email from me recently informing you that judging this round would be extended due to unforeseen circumstances (including a robbery), but upon reflection and review of the entries, I have decided to open up the competition for a further 2 weeks as there are not enough qualifying submissions to ethically choose 10 submissions for the short list. Please help by reposting the original post (found HERE) on social media and telling all your writer friends. The new deadline will be August the 25th at Midnight AEST. It would be amazing if you could please, please, please spread the word and get more writers involved. It would really help to get this round through to completion and offer the writers the healthy competition they deserve.
I understand that the $2 entry fee may put people off and whilst I’d love to keep the entry FREE, I’m not sure my bank account will thank me for it. The entry fee helps pay for the prize money, but what’s left has to come from my own pocket, which I’m more than willing to do as it’s a pleasure to hear such excitement from writers when their stories are chosen for a prize and publication. Your very helpful contribution, of a small entry fee, will help me to keep these competitions running and if we get enough from these ongoing competitions, we can eventually make them FREE.
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Well, we’re almost there. I can see the second ‘Mum Life Stories’ anthology on the horizon and it’s setting up to be as good, if not better than the first. Only 2 rounds of competitions to go and then production begins. Only 2 rounds to go for your chance to be a part of this beautiful book and have your story immortalised in its pages for ever and ever.
Okay so they may run out of copies eventually and they may all disintegrate and decompose back into the earth just like us, but I’m sure their words will resonate in the hearts of our children and our children’s children, etc, for ever and ever. Not only that but you’ll have bragging rights at every high school/college reunion and family gathering for the rest of your life. Nothing sounds quite as impressing as “my story was published in a book” (insert cocky smile and a dozen ‘oooh’s and ‘ahhhh’s).
If that’s not enough motivation to whip up a 500 word masterpiece then think of the cash! It’s not enough to buy your own island and retire to write 100 trashy novels, but you could get a decent celebratory dinner or luxury pedicure, depending on your exchange rate of course.
Round 5 is themed ‘Adolescence’, probably the most exciting of all 6 rounds I think, as there’s bound to be a hundred and one stories from each writers on teenage journey, that they can draw inspiration from. They are the most termultuous years of our lives after all. I’m really looking forward to reading all the submissions in a months time.
Submission opens at 12AM this Sunday morning AEST, the 26th of June and closes 4 weeks later on Sunday the 24th of July at midnight AEST.
The results are finally in! After some deliberation and some technical difficulties getting onto one of our winners, we now have all the bio’s and author’s statements from our 3 wonderfully talented writers. Read their brilliant stories below and don’t forget to sign up to the email list so you can be notified when round 5 begins.
There’s only 2 more rounds before production begins on the second Mum Life Stories Anthology, so that means you have two more chances to get your story included in the book. So start brainstorming idea’s for the round 5 (Teenage Years) now so you don’t miss the deadline. Round 5 will begin sometime within the next 2 weeks, so stay tuned.
If you’ve been wanting to make macrame items but haven’t known where to begin, this series on ‘Macrame For Beginners’ is exactly what you need. I’ll be covering the basics you need to know, to get you started in this craft that is growing faster in popularity than the latest TikTok trend, and quickly becoming the hottest decor theme this decade.
If you haven’t already read my article on the ‘7 basic supplies to begin macrame‘, then check it out so you can stock up and be ready to get started making amazing macrame pieces.
Also check out Macrame For Beginners: Part 1 to learn 4 of the basic macrame knots that you will use extensively throughout your macrame work.
I’d like to thank Laila Miller of Australia for her flash fiction submission “How To Bake Cupcakes”, an engaging tale based on a true story involving her son.
Laila Miller lives in Perth, Western Australia, where she creates stories about sea urchins and turnips, and where she places third in unfair writing challenges with her husband and son.
