Elbknoten by Cansu

Elbknoten by Cansu Makramee mit Liebe
selbstgeknotet in Norddeutschland
schaut sehr gerne bei meinem Etsy Shop vorbei: https://etsy.me/2IZltJy

30/08/2026

okay sooo… I’m actually sending one of you a mystery package 👀📦🍂

My small business is still small enough that I recognize so many of your usernames, read basically every comment and notice when the same people keep showing up here, so I wanted to do something fun for this tiny corner of the internet. 🥹

I’m putting together a September Mystery Package from Elbknoten with handmade macramé pieces + a few little extras from my studio.

Some of the things you spotted in this Reel might end up inside.
Or they might not. 👀

That would be the whole ✨mystery✨ part.

HOW TO ENTER

🤎 Follow
🧶 Like this Reel
📦 Comment MYSTERY MAIL below

And if you want to help this little giveaway travel a bit further, you can also share it to your Story, tag a crafty friend in the comments or send this Reel to someone who might want to enter too. 💌
Those are completely optional, but very much appreciated. 🥹

THE DETAILS

Entries are open until 06.09.2026 at 23:59 Berlin time.

I’ll randomly choose one winner on 07.09.2026 and contact them directly via DM from this account. 🤎

The winner will have 48 hours to reply. If I don’t hear back, I’ll choose another winner.

Open to residents aged 18+ in selected European countries, plus the UK, Switzerland, Monaco, USA and Canada.
📍 Full eligible country list is in the pinned comment.

No purchase necessary. One entry per person.

The prize cannot be exchanged for cash or another product.

Any customs duties, import taxes or other charges applied by the destination country are the responsibility of the winner.

This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Instagram.

And now I have until next week to repeatedly look at this box and think, hmmm… maybe just ONE more thing. 👀😂

Good luck, tiny internet people. 🤎🍂

29/08/2026

a little Saturday reminder to stay in the game. 🤍

I’ve been thinking about this message a lot this week.

You never really know what’s waiting around the corner. And maybe that’s exactly why you can’t spend your whole life standing still because you’re scared something won’t work out.

Which feels VERY relevant when you run a creative small business. 😭

Because there are so many moments where it would be easier to think:

maybe nobody will buy this.
maybe this Reel will flop.
maybe this idea isn’t good enough.
maybe I should wait until I know it’ll work.

Meanwhile, the only way to actually find out is to make the thing. Post the video. Put the product in the shop. Try the weird color combination. Start again when it goes wrong. 🧶

Basically: participate.

Which is slightly inconvenient advice for someone who would personally prefer a detailed preview of the next five years before making any decisions, but apparently life refuses to provide one. Rude. 😂

So here I am, packing another handmade macramé keychain for my little shop, still making things out of string, still sharing them with strangers on the internet, still trying new ideas and hoping some of them turn into something beautiful.

And honestly, that feels like a pretty good way to honor the kind of optimism Dolly Parton carried through so much of her life. 🤍

If you’re building something too, whether it’s a small business, an Etsy shop, a creative hobby, your art or just a life that feels more like yours, this is your Saturday reminder:

you don’t have to know what’s around the corner to keep moving toward it.

Now tell me something you’re currently trying even though you have absolutely no guarantee it’ll work. 👀✨

28/08/2026

maybe the algorithm actually knows what it’s doing for once 👀🍂

Because one of the strangest things about sharing my work online is that so many of the people cheering me on are complete strangers.

People I’ve never met are liking my Reels, leaving sweet comments, sharing my work, following along and helping this tiny account grow… while some people who actually know me probably couldn’t tell you what I posted yesterday. 😂

And I don’t even mean that in a bitter way. I just find it genuinely fascinating.

There are people on the internet who found my little macramé corner by accident and decided, yep, I’m staying here, and somehow you’ve become part of this whole Elbknoten thing. 🥹

I’m currently sitting at around 1,460 followers and my slightly ridiculous goal was to reach 1,500 before August ends.

So… approximately 40 people and three days between me and that number. 😭

Is it going to happen? No idea.

Am I going to keep posting my tiny handmade things into the internet void and hope the algorithm introduces me to a few more craft-loving humans? Absolutely. 🫡

And speaking of tiny handmade things…

PUMPKIN SEASON IS COMING. 🎃🍂

I’m so ready for the shift into cozy season. Warm lights, slower evenings, autumn colors, crafting while it gets darker outside and putting little pumpkins on absolutely everything because apparently that is what society has collectively decided September is for.

This macramé pumpkin is one of those pieces that immediately makes me want to rearrange an entire corner of my house for autumn. 😂

So if the algorithm was right and you do like my art, tell me:

what do you think of this one? 👀🎃
And more importantly… is your home already ready for pumpkin season, or are you still clinging to summer?

26/08/2026

procrastiknotting: because apparently avoiding your to-do list is productive if you’re making something cute 🫡🧶

I could answer emails.
I could clean up my studio.
I could work through the approximately 748 other things currently waiting for me.

Or…

I could sit down and knot for a little while. 🤓

And somehow the second option wins suspiciously often.

There’s just something about doing repetitive knots with your hands that makes my brain go quiet for a minute. Especially when everything else feels busy, I’ll happily disappear into a macramé project and convince myself that this is absolutely what I should be doing right now. 😂

To be fair, sometimes procrastination is where the nicest ideas come from. You start making something just because you feel like it, try a different color combination, change the design halfway through, and suddenly you’ve created something you never planned in the first place. ✨

So I’m officially adding procrastiknotting to the craft vocabulary.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who suddenly becomes extremely creative the second there’s something else I should be doing. 👀

Music by .music
Nails by .nails

25/08/2026

turn the sound on for this one 🎧🤎

21 seconds in my little studio. No trending audio, no voice-over, just the actual sounds of packing one of your orders. ✂️📦

The stamp.
The hole punch.
The tape unrolling.
Attaching the handmade macramé keychain to its backing card.
All those tiny packaging noises that normally disappear underneath whatever sound I’m using for a Reel. 🥹

And I have to admit… I REALLY enjoyed editing this one.

There’s something so satisfying about hearing all the little sounds that are actually part of running a handmade business. It feels much more like you’re sitting at the desk with me while I prepare an order instead of just watching the finished 10-second version of it. 🧶✨

Also, packaging orders is still one of my favorite parts of Elbknoten. Someone chose something I made with my own hands, and then I get to do all these tiny final steps before it leaves my studio and makes its way to them. That will probably never stop feeling a little special. 🥹

So now I’m curious:

would you like to see more studio ASMR like this? 👀
Making macramé, cutting cord, beads clicking around, packaging orders, tape sounds… because I may have accidentally found another type of content I want to make. 😂

24/08/2026

Apparently eating is my hobby because macramé has been promoted to a full personality trait. 🫡🧶

And the timing could not be better because I’m officially starting THREE WEEKS OFF from my full-time job. THREE. WEEKS. 😭✨

Which obviously means I’ll spend a completely normal and reasonable amount of that time sitting in my craft corner making things, filming things, trying things that may or may not work and probably convincing myself at 11pm that I absolutely need to start one more project.

Because something I’ve noticed again and again is that creativity needs a little space. When my brain is full of work, deadlines and everyday life, I can sit in front of all my macramé cord and have approximately ✨zero thoughts✨. But give me some time to slow down, get a little bored and just play around with colors and ideas? Suddenly I want to make EVERYTHING.

So I’m very ready for my little creative era. 🤓

And speaking of being ready…

THE FALL SHOP UPDATE IS LIVE. 🍂🤎

I updated my Etsy shop this morning and all the autumn goodies are officially back. The fall colors, cozy handmade macramé pieces and little accessories are waiting for their season again and I am embarrassingly excited about it.

I mean… the nails have already entered autumn mode. There was never any hope for me. 💅🍁

I’m ready for slower evenings, warm drinks, crafting while it gets dark outside, new color combinations, new products and generally making my craft corner look like a small yarn-based natural disaster.

So tell me: what should I make during my three-week creative chaos era? 👀
And more importantly, are we officially allowed to be excited for autumn yet or do I need to pretend I still care about summer? 😂

23/08/2026

Consider this your official sign to stop pretending you’re going to “make plans soon” and actually schedule the craft night. 😌🧶✨

Send this to the bestie, sister or slightly chaotic group chat you’d happily spend a whole evening with, surrounded by snacks, drinks, way too many craft supplies and at least one project that absolutely will not be finished that night. 🤓

Sunday feels like the perfect day to start making those cozy plans too. September evenings are getting closer, the craft table is calling, and I’m personally very ready for that whole candles-on, comfy-clothes, phones-down, making-something-with-your-hands kind of vibe. 🍂☕️

And honestly, you don’t even have to be good at crafting. Half the fun is sitting together, trying something new and collectively deciding that whatever slightly questionable thing you just made is ✨art✨.

So consider this your assignment:
send this Reel to the person who owes you a craft night. Immediately. 👀💌

Happy Sunday, crafty people. May your week include at least a little time to make something just because you want to. 🥰

20/08/2026

Social media: cute little 8 second crafting video ✨
Reality: I have moved the camera 14 times, stopped halfway through a knot because my hand was blocking the shot, checked the angle, realized NOTHING was in focus, started again, changed perspective and somehow turned a very normal macramé project into a full production. 😭📹

The sound says filming something makes it take twice as long and I actually checked the timestamps for this one…

THREE. TIMES. AS. LONG. 🤡

And the funny thing is, I genuinely enjoy doing it. 😂 I love filming the process, finding pretty angles, showing all those tiny steps and turning a handmade macramé piece into a little story instead of just showing you the finished product.

But every time you see a 6, 8 or 10 second Reel of someone making something, just know there was probably a whole tiny film crew behind it.

The film crew was one woman.
The woman was me.
She was also the macramé artist, camera operator, lighting department, editor, quality control and later probably the person packing the order. 🫡

Small business owners really said “why have one job when I can casually have twelve?” 🤓

Still, I kinda love that you get to see how my handmade macramé wristlets, keychains, phone straps and all the other little things from Elbknoten actually come together. Not just the polished final photo, but the knotting, cutting, finishing, packaging and occasional camera-angle crisis behind it too. 🥹

So next time you watch a tiny handmade business Reel, maybe give the creator an extra second of appreciation because that “effortless little video” was absolutely not effortless. 😂🤍

And now I need to know: do you actually enjoy seeing the making process and behind-the-scenes stuff, or are you mainly here for the final reveal? 👀

16/08/2026

content creation for a small business is actually such a sensible use of time 🥰

film for an hour.
edit for two.
rearrange the clips 17 times.
debate the font like national security depends on it.
watch the finished 6 second reel approximately 84 times.
post it.
lose 3 followers.

✨ entrepreneurship ✨

But jokes aside, I actually love capturing all these tiny behind-the-scenes moments of my handmade business. This order was one of those especially cute ones, a handmade macramé welcome wall hanging, packed up with all the little details, tissue paper and a handwritten thank-you note before heading to its new home. 🤍

And that’s probably why I’ll keep making the ridiculously short reels anyway. Because somewhere between knotting macramé, packaging orders, taking product photos and editing yet another video, I’ve accidentally created this whole little archive of Elbknoten and everything I’ve made over the years. 🥹

So no, don’t let anyone talk you out of making the 6 second reel.

Worst case: three people leave.
Best case: the right person finds your tiny corner of the internet and stays. 🤝🏼

And if you’re also running a creative small business: how many hours of your life have you sacrificed to a reel that was under 10 seconds long? 😂👇🏼

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