Beach Decor Ideas: Easy Fishnet Wrapped Mason Jar Tutorial
Sometime in mid-June I lapsed into vacation mode. Which was odd, because I wasn’t on vacation. That was still over a month away.
But somehow … inexplicably … when the kids finished school, I clicked into island time.
I’m lucky if I make my bed each day. And feed the family. Accomplish a bit of food shopping.
Perhaps all that energy exerted prodding, poking, pestering … and calling in the village … to help my son find a summer job left me exhausted.
Whatever the reason behind my need to move as slowly as possible, the only thing I can seem to make are mason jar crafts. Which is troubling. Especially since I have an enormous project looming with a quickly approaching deadline.
Promises were made. Products were procured. Contracts signed.
Oops.
And while I’m not yet ready to go into details, let’s just say said project rhymes with schmitchen shabinets.
Which will be shmainted. Schwite.
In the meanwhile, I’ve been keeping it low key. Beach style. With some twine. And blue mason jars. And faux fish net made from twine wrapping those blue mason jars …
How To Make a Fishnet Wrapped Mason Jar
Materials*
Scissors
Sand & Sea Shells Optional 😉
I started by cutting a piece of twine that could wrap around top of mason jar with some extra to tie it off.
1. Cut 10 lengths of twine 32″ long. Fold in half and create loop over length that will tie around the top of the jar. | 2. Take two lengths of the folded twin and feed through loop. | 3. Pull tight into a knot. | 4. Repeat for all 10 lengths.
Tie and knot.
For the first row, grab two lengths of twine and knot together. Continue all the way around the first row.
For the second row, grab two lengths of twine — making a diamond shape …
Loop together.
And pull tight.
Rinse and repeat …
…. and repeat.
To finish it off, cut a length of twine slightly smaller than bottom of jar.
Grab two lengths of twine and tie to bottom piece of twine.
Until you end up with this mess. But fear not …
Grab your scissors and give it a trim.
Wrap some twine around the top, and you’re done! You have successfully created a fishnet wrapped mason jar!
And now that real vacation is on the very near horizon, it looks like that shmitchen project will be on hold for a few more weeks …
perhaps I can get some schmiming done before we go.
🙂
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Awesome tutorial. I’m going to make attempt at this someday soon. Have to prove to self can do it. Want to make bigger one for shutter shelf to go with lake/beach theme I have going on for now. Who knows how long tho til I get tired of it and go to bees, and? next.
Glad you’ll be getting to go on real vacation soon, sounds like you really really need one..
Hey I rarely make our bed.It’s not going anywhere. Do good job of making it on days I change sheets. Love to smell clean/hung outside sheets in room, so nice.
Back of house where our room is doesn’t get any of cool breezes from cooler, just ceiling fan on high to cool room. The cooler is in front of house in front hallway, one stupid vent that can’t go very far with walls in way. We have window fan that pulls hot air out/cooler air in, supposedly. Why no vents put in ceiling for back of house who knows. Guess cause it’s a single wide, bummer.
Think your subconscious is trying to tell you you need some down time girl. When your get up and go, gets up and wents it’s telling you to chill out, take it easy. Is it super hot/humid there?
We had 2 weeks of over 100 every day, was sure pining to go to lake.
We got some really bad news couple weeks ago. Our grandson that had cancer when he was younger, just before he was 14, was cancer free from 17 til recently. He kept being really sick, throwing up, decided he’d better go see doc. Has blood cancer in liver, abdomen, lungs. and throat. I am so upset and scared for him. He had to wait few days to even start chemo since he was so darned sick. Had 5 days of it then they came home from Denver. His Mom won’t let us see him, blocked me from his Facebook page, he’s 21. But she did that when he was 18 and I was communicating with him. We didn’t get to see him whole time he was sick before. She is a real -itch. Sorry but she’s been pain since son married her. Told our daughter none of us was to contact anybody in her family. Daughter did send her brother a text. We’re finding out mostly what’s going on from dil’s Mom who talks to our daughter and on grandson’s facebook page, daughter not blocked. DIL is just plain evil. Even daughter hates her and daughters girls don’t want anything to do with their aunt. Family stuff is so hard
. If everybody doesn’t do what she wants when she wants she makes their lives hell. When grandson got sick before son was going to divorce her cause he found out she was cheating on him all summer, left kids at home, they couldn’t get hold of her, no food in house.. Was summer Jordan got sick and son was working in Singapore alot..
Sorry Linda, better sign off, way too much info huh? Have great week. Loved your jar, looks so awesome. You’re so good at that. Think I’d have problem with bottom but would figure out some way to finish it. Happy days
I have no patience right now for twimisting twmine or for swhwite schmitchen schwabinets, but schwuddenly I fweel like twalking funny.
oooo! Macrame! I love it! ^and once again, Bliss has lost it.
it is amazing how what one person finds relaxing gives another a headache…lol. Looks great though.
Linda, I totally understand you, I’m on the same boat but luckily no deadlines for me! The fishnet mason jar looks amazing!
Wow, it looks so adorable! Love the idea, but like Bliss I don’t know if I have enough patience… Have a great week!
I’ve got a nautical theme going in my apartment and I have some jars of shells that are kind of boring that this project would be perfect for. How should I go about figuring out the lengths of twine/hemp to use for these jars? Just standard rule of three like doing macrame bracelets or is that overkill?
Yes, I would go with the standard rule of three!
I got half way through my jar and realized your jar must have been much smaller. How do I know what length of twine to start with for my jar? I have never done macrame before and tried to google the “rule of three” referenced in another comment but couldn’t find anything helpful. We are making these wrapped jars for my niece’s wedding in June. Help please!
Thank you.
The jar used in the tutorial is 5″ tall. I used lengths that were 32″ long – which comes out to to about 6 1/2″ per one inch of jar. Will that help? Otherwise you may need to experiment. And I think the rule of 3 would be 3 times the length. But that would have put me at 15″ which didn’t work. So I ended up doubling that. So another idea is if, say, your jar is 7″ tall then multiple that by 3 and double it and see if that works. I hope this helps!
I love this idea! Thanks for sharing it with everyone!
This is an awesome tutorial. Every year we spend a week at the beach with friends, and I always bring a craft for us Moms.. I was looking for this exact project, and I am so excited to try it, then share it with my friends. Thanks so, so much for sharing this idea. I also am in love with everything nautical. I’ve upcycled and repurposed many items using nautical touches. Hope you can come over to my blog and visit. I’ll be sitting on the porch with a pitcher of iced tea to share!
Just what l was looking for! Thankyou so much. I followed your instructions and did mine just under an hour. I used light twine. Put a double bow with twine too. Your going to know my age now by telling you l first did the masking tape and shoe polish on it as well as the lid a few days prior. Filled the insides with goodies, wrapped up just in time for a birthday present. I am going to make more!
Found your tutorial on this project and love it. Put my first jar and filled it with salts for tub and didplaying it beside tub. Today made a larger version withan old jar with the rubber glass lid for a buddy friend. Thank you. Eaxy to do and quick.