Lanyard knot paracord cross

The 'lanyard knot' is also called a diamond knot/boatswain's whistle knot/Chinese button knot/knife lanyard knot and there's probably a couple more names for it out there depending on the source.

For this paracord cross, I used two strands of paracord. I used a couple of strands that were about 3.5 feet for the vertical section with six knots and 2.5 feet for the horizontal section with four knots. The inner strands were left in, but this could be done with the cord gutted.

With one strand, from the center, I made a small loop then tied six lanyard knots for the vertical section. Each knot is worked up as close as possible to the previous one, except for a bit of space left between the second and third knots for the cord of the second strand to pass through.

The second strand has four knots, the first two knots tied and worked close together, then I pulled the two working ends through the space in the vertical section, and tied two more lanyard knots, working them close together to eliminate any slack. The working ends from both sections are trimmed and tucked back into the knots.

And a another one made with gutted cord and used as a pocket knife fob.







The knots are tied one after the other, with the slack between them worked out before tying the next knot.

Paracord holder for a 2 liter soda bottle...

Here's one way to use 70+ feet of paracord for a 2 liter bottle carrier. I occasionally reuse the soda/coke/cola bottles as water bottles.

Five separate sections(about 12 ft of cord each, made like a paracord bracelet without a buckle to about a 12 inch length).

Then center looped onto a small split ring at the bottom of the bottle, knotted each of the five paracord parts to the same length, ran a short length of paracord(1 ft piece at the top secured with a Black Crater Cord Lock Light) to secure the five parts at the top.

Then ran another long length of paracord(14 ft), starting at the bottom by tying a knot at one end and zigzagging up then down from one section to the next, and just looped the cord I had left around the top a few times.

I just used what I had for the zigzagging cord, but you could end up using a lot more if desired for that part by running the cord closer together as it's worked up, then down each section and maybe crossing the lines up going around again....

It was kind of hard to see the cord with the water in the bottle, so I added another photo.

A separate paracord strap or handle could be added, or carabiners might be used to clip the bottle to a bag/pack.

Square knotted crosses...

A couple of variations of knotted crosses, done with the cobra stitch/Solomon bar/Portuguese sinnet, using 1.4mm cord.

You first tie a complete vertical section, leaving a little bit of space/slack where arm section will go, then tie the second section with the cords going thru the space left in the first part.

The larger one is about 4.5 inches tall by 3 inches wide(not counting the loop at the top). The smaller is about 2 inches tall by 1.5 inches wide. You could use fabric glue or super glue to stiffen it up if desired.

I've seen at least a couple similar examples of these online, made with rope/twine and paracord. I'll add the links if I can find them again, or if someone has the links, maybe they can add them in the comments section. Found one here, though it's not one of the previous one's I've seen before, similar nonetheless.

They can also be tied like the round/square sinnets, by working two separate sinnets towards each other. Either the top and bottom first and outward to do the arms or arms first, then top and bottom sections. I have tried it this way and it was decidedly more complicated than I thought it needed to be, so I just went with the easier method of two separated sections. YMMV