The most comfortable chair. Ever.

A couple of months ago, Chris and I went to the Minneapolis farmer’s market and saw these wonderful hammock swings.  We sat in them and they were wonderfully comfortable.  While enjoying the comfort, we decided that surely they must not be that hard to make.

The next week, a trip to the public library landed us with two books on hammock making.  These books were amazingly awesome.  They were obviously written by hippies in the 70s and were spiral bound.  The books weren’t the most well written, but after reading through them, we got a grasp of how to make our own hammock swing.

Menards and Home Depot had all of the materials that we needed to begin this project, so we bought up all of their cotton rope and I started weaving!  Amazingly, the project went very quickly; I finished weaving the entire bed in only 3 evenings.  It took one additional day to tie the bed onto the rings and another morning to put together the spreader and the hanging hardware, but finally, it’s done!

I tested out the swing for the first time yesterday, and I’d say it was a successful project.  It ended up being fairly cheap (<$50) and fun to make.  Now that I’ve learned a few tips and tricks, I think I’ll try to make one for Christine, too, so we can both relax on my deck.

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