How to Make a Dragonfly Keychain with Nylon Thread for Couples

To make this dragonfly keychain, I choose nylon thread as the dragonfly's main part, two wood beads as its eyes. The alphabet beads added make the whole design meaningful. You can choose special letters instead of mine, such as names. Now, let’s start to learn how to make a dragonfly keychain!

Materials needed in dragonfly knot keychain tutorial:

2MM Nylon Thread
Alphabet Acrylic Beads
Wood Beads
Lighter

Instructions for dragonfly knot keychain tutorial:

Step 1: Make the head for the dragonfly keychain

1st, cut off about 40cm nylon thread, and slide two wood beads onto the thread;
2nd, place the nylon thread to form following shape as picture shows, the length you want the finished dragonfly to be depends on the places of wood beads;

3rd, keep the middle two threads as the holding thread, use another threads as working thread to tie a half square knot as pictures show;

4th, continue to tie the other half square knot, and tighten threads;
5th, tie a square knot again; now, you’ve got the head of dragonfly.

Step 2: Make the wings for dragonfly keychain

1st, tie a square knot, remember keep it loose as pictures show, this will be dragonfly’s top wings;

2nd, do the other pair of wings in the same method, and keep this pair of wings smaller than the top ones.

Step 3: Make the body and tail for the dragonfly keychain

1st, slide an alphabet bead onto the holding threads, and then tie a square knot;

2nd, do another two alphabet beads in the same way, and use lighter to fix the end if necessary, remember to leave a little loop at the end as the dragonfly’s tail.

Step 4: Finish dragonfly for couples

Do the other dragonfly keychain in the same method, you can change the alphabet beads into your names.

Attach the dragonfly to keychain. The final look of dragonfly keychain for couples looks like this:

Wow! This dragonfly keychain knot tutorial is over! Based on this tutorial, you must have some ideas on how to make a dragonfly keychain. Take your imagination, and create such cute and unique dragonfly keychain for you and your boyfriend! I hope you will have a perfect Valentine Day!