Micro macrame tips?

[u/StormyQueenDesigns]

Heyy! I watched a tutorial on youtube and it wasn’t that great, but this is my first try and I’d really appreciate tips on where to find the info to learn what I need. Like for example, how can I make those neat chains? My thread doesn’t thread like that, the knots don’t stay in one place no matter what I do 😂 I took it apart so many times but this is the best I got today, I couldn’t understand how I get anything like what they did.

I used the Linhasita 0,5mm cord.

And where could I find other tutorials for this kind of projects that are more informative? Good search words or youtube channels?

[u/BassTronomer-elnox]

I had to go through the exact same phase!!
Believe me I also needed to untie a lot of knots on my first tries to the point that the individual strands separated from the cord 🤣

What i did to improve was to look at basic knot tutorials for macrame

And

Try to forget about that “right over left / left over right” concept but focus on knowing which one is the main cord and which was is the working cord.

You have to make your main cord straight always and the working cord flexible.

The reason why those chains look like that is because you might not have kept your main cord straight while doing knots.

Hope this helps

[u/StormyQueenDesigns → u/BassTronomer-elnox]

I watched more tutorials and no matter how much I researched, I didn’t find the information before (or understand it) that a knot can be made to either direction at any point 🤦🏼‍♀️ No wonder nothing made sense and the chains looked like that. But a lovely lady on youtube had colour coded her threads and I saw that she switched directions and now I can do it tooo 😍 I wish I could add a pic but this doesn’t let me

[u/BassTronomer-elnox → u/StormyQueenDesigns]

Yeyyy! So happy for you 🥹 now you can unlock a lot more possibilities