I have been producing step by step guides for my macrame designs since 2021 and have received some wonderful feedback about how fun and easy the guides are to follow. Occasionally I get questions or suggestions that allow me to better understand the experience from the customer's point of view. Sometimes the feedback is specific to a pattern, like a step that could be described more clearly. This feedback is really valuable and gives me the chance to tweak my guides and make them even better. But mostly the queries I get are general to the craft of macrame, and so in this blog I will discuss some of those more general questions and suggest some answers.
I don't think my ideas are the only solutions. I am largely self taught and so I have resolved some of these issues through trial and error. But I would love to here from you, if you have considered the same issues and how you solved them. Please comment on these posts and we can make them even more useful to others.
Today's question is a common one, and well worth discussing: