I've made these for myself to hang my mini 180ml water bottles at work, they are also handy for hanging my phone via a phone ring, keys et cetera. Made several to match my bottles and like to collect some these characters normally.
My favourite character lanyards
Occasion lanyards
Swapping them out allows me to wash them, since I sweat so much in summer around my neck and dry out my water bottles completely to prevent mould. I got my name professionally printed on ribbon, cut these up to use as name tags and cut my name in glow in the dark vinyl on my vinyl cutter to stick to my bottles, as I have lost one in the past. Tried different sewing techniques and mediums, just for experimentation to see what methods are best. My lanyards and mini water bottles have attracted quite a bit of interest both from colleagues and customers.
I will also be making these for my online shop in different variations and selling them once I am satisfied with quality checks; one with safety break away links, one without, one with cheaper clasps for non-important IDs , one with expensive clasps as shown in photograph for those important goods such as purses and one single sided lanyard with a nice soft backing. Everyone loves novelty and cuteness, so this should sell well.
This one I made for Lunar/Chinese New Year, red and gold are especially auspicious colours in Chinese culture as well as many other East Asian countries. White is considered bad luck as it is associated to death and mourning, blue is also a colour that you should also stay away from as it represents ill health, so if you are gifting a Chinese person avoid these colours at all cost. I went with a burgundy colour, as bright red a little two in your face for everyday wear.
I've made this by sewing grosgrain ribbon together; the gold printed flowers are designed and printed on by myself. I chose plum flowers, as they are a Chinese symbol of spring. My name is sewn on, printed by a online company and have coated it to make it waterproof, however I will be purchasing the machine to do this in the future. There is no reason I cannot wear any of lanyards on a regular basis, my design is simple with no special wording.
