Water Bottle Holder

This is a very secure way to carry and hold your bottle and has the added benefit of looking good.

Use about five feet of each of the two colors you choose.  arrange them as shown

Take right farthest cord and bring it under all others to the left...in this case the bright green.  And then lay it over on top of all of them toward the right.

Now take the farthest cord on left(black in this case) and bring it over and through the loop as shown.  Notice how it goes around and under all including itself and finally on top of the farthest green one.

Pull knot tight

Loosen knot as shown and bring the green around and under and through knot again.

tighten knot back down and notice last working end should be on bottom as arrow is pointing.

Turn over whole knot work as shown in pic.

Loosen knot again as shown

Bring the black under and around and through knot like you did the green earlier

Pull knot tight again

Flip project over and loosen knot again

Bring green around, under and through knot and tighten again

Continue doing this weave until you have an inch or so of the length you desire.  Notice the arrows pointing to the two outside strands that we will cut off next close to the snake weave and melt with a flame or soldering iron to adhere them to the weave.  Next we will slide are plastic barrel slide over the two strands as well.  Also slide your snake weave up until the two loops that will go around the bottle are the desired length(approximately 4 inches for this bottle but make it long enough for the bottle you use).

Here you can see we have slid the plastic barrel slide on.

Here we will make an overhand knot beyond the barrel slide making the whole distance long enough to get your hand through the loop and have a little extra.

Now tighten the overhand knot and cut closely the two strands at the end and melt.

Now we will make two chinese button knots to put over the two loops and they will act as sliders to cinch up against the water bottle neck.  Lay out one of the two colors(in this case green) like shown.

Now bring the working end over the existing loop again as shown

this is the hardest step to see...bring your working end around and over outside loop and then under and over and under as shown.

bring the working end around counterclockwise as shown

bring working end over and under as shown and notice arrow

Now bring it under only the two show...notice arrow

Now place whole button knot project over the black loop in this case and you will eventually pull knot tight working slow to make it look even and nice.

Pull knot tight

Cut ends off and melt close to knot.  Here you must be very careful knot to melt the green cord against the black or the green button knot will not slide.

Make the other button knot just like the green one and put it over the other loop.

slide the loops over ready to cinch up with button knots

another view of loops over bottle

Your work is done

Here it show the lanyard around your wrist