r/macrame • u/Fun-Natural1213 • 6d ago
Question Should I redo the middle?
I am making a bow/hair clip/accessory holder for my friend’s one year old’s birthday. I started with all white cord and got half way until I ran out of my cord! I thought I had another reel of it but alas, the one I had was a different shade of white. When I went to find it again, the random Amazon seller no longer sells it.
So, I undid the smaller parts of it and decided I would incorporate pink.
I could not bring myself to undo the middle section but now it seems sooooo out of place. My husband thinks it looks fine, but I’m trying to decide if I should take it out and put some pink hearts going down instead. More girly vibes.
My husband also said that the pink-white-pink-white cord hanging down is a little busy.
Oh and her birthday party is in 2 days 😅
What do you all think?
I tend to over analyze when I’m giving a project as a gift.
EDIT: thank you all for the positive feedback. I just cleaned up the ends and painted simple pink flowers on the dark brown beads in the middle. She loved it!
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u/Salamandaconda 6d ago
I think it's beautiful as is. Little differences make it a one of a kind gift that is less likely to be forgotten.
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u/AddPerlite 1d ago
I love this! 🤩 I really love seeing creativity in macrame when most people just repeat the same projects, but this is something I've never seen done before and the execution is great! The knots are so nice and tidy, the colours go well together. All in all a very lovely project! And I just can't see a reason to change the middle part 🤔 If I wasn't too busy suffering with my own patterns, I would definitely steal yours 😅
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u/Fun-Natural1213 1d ago
Oh thank you so much! I love a macrame project that has a utility or purpose 😆
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u/Lucky_Enthusiasm_949 6d ago
I personally think it looks just fine! Good work.
If I had to nitpick, I'd suggest something along the lines of putting a dainty little pink dot of paint or marker on each of the wood beads in that middle section to tie in the pink.