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Today, I'm going to show you how to make The Helicopter. The Helicopter is
actually a variation on the Father Cobra Lanyard. This lanyard will be a
lot easier to make if you already know how to make the Father Cobra.
If you
don't know how to make that, you can watch my video called 'Father Cobra'.
We start with 15 square stitches. Next, we do 6 Father Cobra stitches over
some of those square stitches. Here are those Father Cobra stitches.
After
we have 6 of those, we do a square stitch on top of the lanyard to bring
the strands all in one place. Then we do 5 more square stitches.
Let's get
started.
You will need 2 pieces of gimp that are each 3 feet long. Take both pieces
of gimp and bend them at their centers. Take your first piece of gimp and
wrap it around the second, leaving about 1-inch of a loop at the top.
Tie a
knot in your first piece of gimp.
Take your 4 strands and separate them in different directions.
Use those 4
strands to make a square stitch.
Do 14 square stitches on top of that first one; 15 square stitches in
total. We've just done the first one, now I'll show you Number 2 and Number
3.
That's 3 square stitches, 12 more to go. I have 15 square stitches; let's
just count to make sure. We'll count the green loops. Every loop is one
stitch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. 15 stitches and
we are ready for the next part.
We are now ready to make 6 Father Cobra stitches. Turn your lanyard over.
We are going to go back over the square stitches we just made,
and we're
going to make square stitches around them. Here's how that works.
There's the first one. Here's the second. We go back over the strands we
just pulled across.
For the third one, you'll bring the strands back across this way.
Then the
fourth one back the other way, and so on, until you have 6 Father Cobra
stitches in total.
Here are my 6 Father Cobra stitches. Just like the square stitch,
we can
count these by counting the loops. We'll count the green ones here.
This
one at the very top is part of the last square stitch, so we'll ignore it.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and we are ready for the next part.
We need to take our 4 strands and do a square stitch right here.
This
strand is already in a good position because it can just come across,
like
this. This strand is in a fairly good position because it can come across
this way, parallel to this one. This strand is also in pretty good
position, it can go over this strand, and then under this loop.
That leaves
this strand over here, which needs to come up over these square stitches,
like this.
Bring this strand down and this strand up. Bring this one across,
going
over and under. Lastly the one down here, bring it up, and we'll go over
and under.
Do 5 more square stitches on top of that one. 3 more to go. I have my 6
square stitches at the top, and now I'm ready to apply Super Glue.
Super
Glue is dangerous if you use it incorrectly. If you are under 18,
you need
to have an adult with you to do this. If you don't want to use superglue,
you can watch my video, 'Square Stitch Finishing', that shows 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 ends of the strands.
That is it for
the helicopter. Thank you so much, to those of you who have posted pictures
of your lanyards to my Facebook page. If you haven't been on my Facebook
page, definitely go check it out. It's www.Facebook.com/Lanyards.
I have a
bunch of pictures up there of lanyards that I've made, and pictures of
lanyards other people have made, as well. I would love see pictures of your
lanyards. Definitely go check out the page and send some pictures of your
lanyard creations.