DIY Portable Hammock Chair

Cut a 3-foot length of rope and tie the ends together. Hang it from a coathook or doorknob. Load a large netting shuttle with twine, cut the free end and tie it to the loop.

Hold a 1-inch-diameter dowel horizontally, just below the loop and behind the hanging twine. Wrap the twine up around the dowel, pull it out through the loop and to the right. Tie a half-hitch around the loop, pulling the knot snug against the upper surface of the dowel. Let the twine hang down in front again and slightly to the right.

Make 19 more such wrap-and-knot combinations along the length of the dowel, working toward the right. Flip the work over so the shuttle is on the left again and slide the dowel out from the series of twine loops. Hold the dowel just beneath the loops and make another row, working with the loops in the previous row rather than the rope starter loop. Make a total of 40 such rows, reloading the shuttle whenever you run out of twine.

Cut the rope starter loop and remove it from the hammock chair net. Cut 40 pieces of 40-inch twine and tie each one to one of the end loops on the first and last ends of the net. Tie a knot in the end of two 50-inch pieces of rope and tie the loose ends of the twine strands to them, those on the left to one and those on the right to the other.

Tie another knot in each rope 6 inches farther along its length. Drill a hole near each end of a 2-inch dowel 36 inches long and thread it onto the ropes. Tie the ropes to solid overhead supports to hang the hammock chair.