Team Paracord.euOct 7, 2022

Paracord

Tutorial

Dog collar

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The Crazy Collar knot with 4 colors is great for tying your own rope collar. When you knot the Crazy Collar with paracord 550, the knot is about 4 cm wide and 1.4 mm thick.

In the MatchMaker you can choose colors and calculate how much paracord you need to use this knot for your project.

Materials:

• 4x paracord 550
• Closure
• Paracord Jig
• Tape measure

In this tutorial, we will use the Kosmetik 2.0 setup. After making these set-up loops, you will start adding the other colors. Below you can see where to add the colors to the set-up.

Color 1: Imperial Red, color 2: Passion Pink, color: Goldenrod and color 4: Vanilla Yellow.

Make sure the length of your set-up is still correct. Also make sure the strands of the other colors are the same length on both sides. Then you can start the knotting itself.

1. Let the strands of color 1 cross each other at the back and go to the side crossing over the set-up ropes.
2. Let the left strand of color 3 go around the horizontal strands of color 1 on the right and come back to the front through the loop.

1. Then let this strand go around color 1 again in the middle.
2. Let the left strand of color 4 go around the horizontal strands of color 1 and come to the front again to its own left.

1. On the left of this, let the right strand of color 4 also go around the horizontal strands and come forward again on its own right.
2. Now bring the right strand of color 3 to the left to pass through the loop of color 1 and come to the front again on its left.

1. Then this strand goes around the horizontal strands again.
2. Let the left strand of color 2 go around the horizontal strands and insert it into the loop of color 1.

1. Repeat for the right-hand strand of color 2.
2. Tighten all the strands.

1. Cross the two strands of color 1 in the middle.
2. The back strand of color 4 goes around the horizontal strands. This strand comes back to the front via the loop and then goes around the horizontal strands again on the right.

1. The back strand of color 3 goes around the horizontal strands in the middle to come back to the front to its own right.
2. The front strand of color 3 now also goes around the horizontal strands to come forward again to its own left.

1. The front strand of color 4 goes on the right around the horizontal strands, through the loop of color 1 and then in the middle again around the horizontal strands.
2. As in steps 8 and 9, let the strands of color 2 go around the horizontal strands and insert them into the loop of color 1 on either side. Tighten the knot.

Repeat the above steps until your knotting is long enough.

Now that you are done with the knotting itself, it is time to finish off your work. It is important that you do this firmly so that the rope does not come loose.

Tools used:

• Scissors
• Tea spoon
• Paracord needle or crochet hook

Since aesthetics is also an important aspect, we try to make the beginning and end as similar as possible.

1. After the last knot, the strands of colors 3 and 4 are on the front and the strands of colors 1 and 2 on the side.
2. Insert the strands of colors 1 and 2 at the rear side under a couple of loops of color 2.

1. Cross the strands of color 4 and let them go to the back between the cow hitch knots of color 1.

Tip: Want to make it look like color 4 is also a cow hitch knot here? Then thread one of the strands back to the front below the buckle, cross over the strands of color 4 and then thread the strand again through the knotwork to the rear.

1. Insert the strands of color 4 as shown in the picture under loops of its own color. Bring the strands of color 3 under the buckle to the back.

1. Insert the strands of color 3 twice through loops of their own color.
2. Now cut all loose strands. Burn the ends and flatten them (you could use a teaspoon for this).

The end result is a neatly finished collar, which appears to have 3 cow hitch knots on either side of the buckle.

Finishing paracord neatly is something that can take some practice. Give yourself time to get better at this.

We thank designer Jeanette Hanf for letting us use this beautiful knot. Check out more of her work on Facebook or Instagram.