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In honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon Tragedy, I've made this Boston
Marathon Memorial Ribbon lanyard with 2 black pieces of gimp.
I wanted to show you how to make this. The lanyard uses a basic square stitch.
We do 70 square stitches then we do another square stitch. Before tightening it,
we take the end of our lanyard and put it through that square stitch.
I'll show you how to do that later in the video. Then we do 7 more square stitches.
You'll be using 2 pieces of black gimp to make that lanyard.
In the video, I'll actually show this lanyard because it's easier to see these
bright colors on the camera than it is to see the black gimp,
so you will be making this, but I will be showing you using this.
Let's get started. You will need 2 pieces of black gimp that are each 5 feet long.
The black gimp can be difficult to see on the camera, so to show you how to make
this lanyard, I will be using a blue piece of gimp and a yellow piece of gimp,
but for yours, you will want both pieces to be black. Take your first piece of gimp
and bend it at its center. Drop that over your finger, take the strand of the back
and wrap it around to make a second loop. Take your second piece of gimp and bring
it under both of those loops, and pull it through until you reach the middle of the
second piece of gimp. Take the strand on the left; bring it across to the right,
going over and under the loops, keeping it on the top of your finger.
Take the strand on the right and bring it over to the left, going over and under the
loops, keeping it on the bottom of your finger. Take the whole thing off your finger
slowly and tighten the strands. Keep making square stitches on top of that first
stitch. It doesn't matter in what direction your lanyard is facing,
it's going to be the same on all 4 sides. Take the strand at the top and bring it
down. Take the strand on the bottom, bring it up. Take the strand on the right,
bring it straight across to the left, going over and under the 2 loops you just
made. Take the strand on the left, bring it straight across to the right,
going over and under those loops. Let's do one more. Keep making square stitches
until you have 70 in total. We've made 3 so far, so do 67 more.
You can see I've done 70 stitches. Yours will look like this with the black gimp.
Let's count those stitches really fast. The way you count stitches is choose a side
and just count the loops. Each loop is a stitch. Starting from the bottom: 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28,
30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60,
62, 64, 66, 68, 70. 70 loops, so that's 70 stitches. Make another square stitch,
but don't tighten it. Take the other end of your lanyard and bring it through that
stitch. Then tighten the strands around it. Continue making square stitches on top
of that stitch. Keep going until you have 7 stitches after putting the end of the
lanyard through the loop. I now have 7 stitches after this pass-through stitch here.
You can see that by counting the loops: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Your lanyard, of course, will look like this with the black pieces.
The next step is for us to finish this last stitch by applying Super Glue.
Super Glue is dangerous if you don't use it correctly. If you are under 18,
you need an adult with you to do this part. If you don't want to use Super Glue,
you can watch my video called 'Square Stitch Finishing', that will show you how to
finish a square stitch without using Super Glue. Let that dry for 30 minutes.
My glue has dried and I've cut off the strands at the end. This is what yours looks
like. That is the Boston Marathon Memorial ribbon lanyard. If you want to know about
the supplies I use and where I get them, you can go to www.WhereToGetGimp.com;
that's with no punctuation. Come say hello on Facebook at my Facebook page,
at www.Facebook.com/Lanyards.