06/24/2026
Where My Creative Journey Began: Macrame
At the end of 2021, my sister and I tried learning how to do macrame while we both just finished having COVID. We both had crazy brain fog and could not comprehend the knots at all. We were so overwhelmed by it, we didn't pick it back up for almost another year.
We ended up getting really into and started a small business where we mainly sold our pieces through vendor shows in Southeast Kansas. We also did a few workshops where we taught others how to make keychains and ornaments. These are some of the macrame pieces that I made during the almost 3 year period we had the business.
I really liked doing macrame, but with Amazon, Hobby Lobby, Michael's and all these other big box stores hopping on the trend and outpricing us, it became really hard to make sales. Macrame is similar to crochet in the sense that it can only be hand tied and cannot be replicated by a machine. So, these companies are paying people probably horrible wages to make these pieces, and they also use very low quality materials.
With all of these things happening, our love for making macrame on a business scale faded, and fast. We ended up closing our small business together, but we still make pieces for ourselves and sometimes others here and there.
Follow along to see where my creative journey went after!
