Are you looking for summer party lights? An ingenious way to illuminate garden paths in a decorative way? Then this knotted tea light chain is just the thing for you!
The idea
Tealight glasses are hung up here on a knotted rope. This is fastened to wooden round rods, these can be put into the ground. Depending on your personal taste, this Macramé idea can be used as a garden decoration or practically as a way to adequately light a garden path.
The material
For a skein with 4 tea lights of 1.10 m each, 6 x 4 m skeins of robust wool yarn are required. Beside the tealight glasses and wooden rods, wooden beads, some Jute ribbon and double-sided Adhesive tape are used. Preparation For preparation, stick a transparent strip of double-sided adhesive tape about 2.5 cm below the edge of each tealight Adhesive tape.
Tying
First the wool is knotted on a wooden round bar. Then about 15 cm is tied with the weaver's knot. The step-by-step instructions show you exactly how this is done. Tie the first Glass for tea lights firmly to the knotting end, place the Yarn directly on the surface of the tape, tie another approx. 15 cm with the weaver's knot and tie the next glass into the string. Continue in this way until all 4 tealight glasses are integrated in the cord and after the final 15 cm of knotting string, attach the Yarn to a second round rod. Insert both round bars into the ground so that the knotted Chain hangs taut.
Decorate
Wrap each glass with Jute ribbon , draw some wooden beads on the ends as decoration and fix them with a knot. Make tassels from the wool yarn: Simply wrap around a piece of Yarn loosely in Yarn , wrap and fix this with string and cut it into a tassel. Thread a wooden bead on the Yarn and attach 2 of these tassels each to the knotting string between the tea light glasses.
Extra tip
Drive a small nail into each round bar (same height!). This can be used to hang the knotting chain wonderfully. This also makes it easier for you to extend the knotting chain as you wish (knot more strands with tea light glasses). We recommend that you work in the next round bar after about 1 m.
To tie the weaver knot
Step 1
Place the left thread as a loop over the middle cords, the right thread as a loop under the middle cords and pull it through the loop of the opposite thread in each case.
Step 2
Put the right thread over the middle cords, the left thread under the cords, pull through the loops.
Step 3
At the third knot, the left thread is again at the top, the right thread at the bottom. Both loops are knotted together as in step 1.
Step 4
The 4th step is a repetition of the 2nd step: The right thread is placed as a loop above and the left thread below the middle strands and then pulled through the loop of the opposite thread.
