How Isabella Strambio Turned Macrame Into a Creative Career
Isabella Strambio already had a creative profession. She worked as an interior designer.
But designing spaces for others wasn’t giving her enough room for her own creativity—or enough time with her daughters.
In 2016, she discovered macrame. What followed began as a personal experiment and gradually became a different way of working. Isabella Strambio’s official website
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It Started With Making Time for Herself
Isabella launched a blog called TwoMe, short for “two hours for me.”
Her challenge was simple: explore twelve crafts in twelve months and share the experience through her blog and Instagram.
Macrame became the craft she kept coming back to. Isabella’s personal story
There’s something refreshing about that beginning. She gave herself permission to explore before deciding where the work might lead.
For someone with several unfinished projects and an interest in everything handmade, that feels familiar. Sometimes the next step is simply finding a craft you want to practice again tomorrow.
If you’re still discovering yours, our beginner’s guide to paper quilling is another place to start.
One Workshop Changed the Possibilities
About six months into blogging, Isabella was invited to run a macrame workshop.
It sold out.
In her account, that experience encouraged her to consider a side business. Later, after moving from London to the countryside, she left her interior-design career to work on macrame full time. Isabella’s account of her first workshop
The workshop offered a practical signal: people wanted to learn from her.
For other makers, this is a useful moment to notice. A small paid class can reveal what people value, which questions they ask, and whether teaching is something you enjoy.
It also gives you a manageable place to begin. You can improve one experience before building a bigger offering around it.
Her Craft Became Something Others Could Learn
Today, Isabella’s course catalog includes beginner instruction, advanced projects, individual patterns, and a macrame membership community.
Her portfolio moves between decorative and wearable pieces. A flower-shaped lampshade, a crescent-moon wall hanging, and a round knotted rug show how differently the same craft can be used. Explore Isabella’s Macrame Courses
That variety gives learners several ways into her work.
Someone might want a small decoration for a bedroom. Another person might be ready for a detailed statement piece.
From a reader’s perspective, the interesting business lesson is how teaching can grow alongside the maker’s skills. Each new project creates an opportunity to explain another technique, solve another difficulty, or help someone attempt something more ambitious.
Books Brought Her Ideas Into More Homes
Isabella’s Macramé for the Modern Home was published by Search Press in March 2020.
The book includes sixteen projects, with wall hangings, plant hangers, and other home accessories made using recycled materials and natural dyes. Explore the Book
It’s easy to see the connection between her earlier design work and the objects she teaches people to make.
These are pieces intended to live in a room: adding texture beside a plant, bringing detail to a wall, or making a familiar corner feel more personal.
For another handmade addition to a cozy space, try our recycled glass jar candle holders.
A Creative Career With Several Connected Parts
Isabella’s website now brings together courses, books, creative-business mentoring, retreats, and bespoke or corporate work.
We haven’t verified a public income breakdown, so there’s no monthly earnings figure attached to this story.
What we can see is a creative practice expressed through several connected offerings.
For Shilpidea readers, three lessons stand out: protect some time to experiment, share the work you’re developing, and test a specific offer when interest appears.
Those are starting points, rather than promises of a particular outcome.
A hobby can remain a satisfying hobby. It can also become a class, a pattern, or a small business worth exploring.
You can follow Isabella’s creative journey and explore her macrame projects and courses on her official website.
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