Beginners Easy Lanyard. Add your house, car or office keys to a pretty lanyard or use it for your identification badges, lip balm, hand sanitizer and more. Lanyards are practical and fashionable and a great way to keep track of your keys or badges.
The Beginners Easy Lanyard is the perfect project for making last minute gifts or for selling at craft fairs – quick, easy and fun to crochet with basic crochet stitches (single and half double crochet).
I crocheted this lanyard with I Love This Cotton from Hobby Lobby, but any cotton or worsted yarn will work fine. If you want a longer lanyard, add more chains.
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Beginner’s Easy Lanyard
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Materials:
Hobby Lobby I Love This Cotton or any worsted weight yarn of your choice.
G / 4mm hook or hook to match the yarn of your choice
Key ring
Tapestry needle
Size: 17” when folded, not including key ringGauge: gauge is not important for this lanyard
Abbreviations: (US terms)
Ch – chain Sc – single crochet
Hdc – half double crochet Ch-1 sp – chain 1 space
Notes: If you have an extra stitch at the end of row 2, work a sc in the last stitch.
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Instructions:
ch 130 or desired length. Leave a 12” tail at beginning of chain.
Row 1: Hdc in 2nd chain from hook and in each chain across, turn.
Row 2: Ch 1, (sc, skip 1, ch 1) across, turn.
Row 3: Ch 1, sc in each stitch and ch-1 sp across. Fasten off leaving a 15” tail, and weave in ends.
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Finishing:
- Slip key ring onto strap and with 12” tail sew ends of straps together – do not twist strap.
- With wrong sides facing, fold strap at seam and place key ring at seam.
- With tapestry needle and 15” tail sew the two sides together with 4- 5 stitches on each side
- You may want to add a couple stitches in the center of the strap about 1” above the key ring to keep the key ring in place.
- Finish off and weave in ends.
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