(How much or how little embellishment you give your feeder is up to you, but red put on all sides of the bottle will make it more attractive to hummingbirds) You can also bend the ends of the wire into small loops with the beads behind the loops to hold the wire in place. Using pliers wrap the 20 gauge wire with embelishments around the copper wire on the feeder tightly to hold the beads and charms on. Using wire cutters cut off your section of 20 gauge wire.ģ. Take the 20 gauge wire and your embelishments and string them onto the wire.Ģ. Again DO NOT dye your food red as this is harmful to the birds.ġ. You need red charms or beads to attract the hummingbirds to your feeder. Opinions are my own and additional products used in the project were selected by me.Step 9: Embellish your bottle. I am proud to be a 3M-sponsored blogger, and as part of my responsibilities, I get the opportunity to evaluate 3M products. We’ve had some birdies come and go from the feeder but I’ve yet to be quick enough to capture one on camera! Have you ever really sat and watched one? It’s just crazy how teeny tiny they are, and how fast. I’m hoping word spreads through the hummingbird grapevine and soon we’ll have gangs of ’em coming to sip on our little feeder! xoxo After letting it cure for one hour, hang your hummingbird feeder! Step 14: Remove the black liner and press the hook onto the surface for 30 seconds. Step 13: Remove the blue liner and press the adhesive onto the hook. Step 12: Clean the surface of the area where you’d like to hang yourCommand™ hook. Insert the feeder tube in the bottle and put the bottle in the macrame hanger. Step 11: After the cord is dry, fill the bottle with 1 part sugar and 4 parts water. Step 10: Optional: Spray paint sections of the cord (with the bottle removed) to create some colorful sections. Step 9: Take all cords and tie them in a knot a few inches above the ends of the spirals, leaving a loop at the top from which to hang the feeder. ![]() Step 8: Repeat step 7 with the other three sets of cord. Once you reach the end, trim the tail of the cord. You’ll see a spiral pattern being created. Repeat this over and over until you reach the end of the right cord. ![]() Step 7: Taking two cords from one set, loop the right cord around the left, under, and through itself. Step 6: Repeat step 5 with another round of square knots you’ll start to see a net pattern appearing in the cords. Repeat this process with the rest of the sets of cord. Tie these two cords together with a square knot, about 2-3 inches from the previous square knots. Step 5: Take the cord on the right of one set from the set to its right, take the cord on the left. Now you should have four sets of two lengths of cord each. The four cords should be evenly spaced around the four sides of the loop. Fit the original loop over the neck of the bottle. Step 4: Repeat step three with each of the other three lengths of cord. Pull the ends of that cord underneath the loop and through itself, securing it to the loop. ![]() Take the first cord and place the halfway point over the loop you made. Step 3: Cut four lengths of cord, about 3 yards each. Tie a square knot - first tie the right side over the left, then the left side over the right. Step 1: Tie a loop of cord wide enough to fit snugly around the neck of your bottle. That way we’ve been able to move it around without damaging any hanging surfaces. We wanted to try to hang it in a couple of different spots to see which would be the best for them, so we teamed with Command™ to hang it usingCommand™ Outdoor Wire Hooks. But I forgot how fun it is, and how quickly it comes together! This one’s made of just a few basic knots and a little spray paint, and it’s enough to attract the hummingbirds to come hang out. We have hummingbirds in our yard! They kind of come and go a little bit and I wanted to entice them to stick around, so we came up with this pretty DIY macrame hummingbird feeder! My mom taught me macrame deep in the 80’s when I was little and I had to reach waaaaaay back in the memory bank to put this one together.
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