Knotty Pirate

I needed to attach a Tritium fob to my knife so I could find it in the dark... Since the knife, handle and the sheath are all black, I wanted to be able to find it easily. A few stitches of the Solomon Bar worked nicely.

I was cleaning out a drawer in my desk and I came across a 12 strand lanyard. I made this years ago when I was in summer camp. Some kid bet me a candy bar that it could not be made. So I bought yards and yards and yards of the plastic lanyard lace, and I proved him wrong... It was the tastiest candy bar I ever ate...mmmm the sweet, sweet taste of victory!

As you can see in the picture and the video below, I took 3 four strand lanyards and wove them all together. Then I started the barrel stitch... after a number of stitches I reversed the direction of the barrel stitch and made the lanyard a Zig Zag lanyard...


See my previous post on how to make a Zig Zag lanyard...