How do you start a square stitch landyard without a key chain?

First answer: i used toilet paper for mine.

My solution:

Simply cross the two strands in the middle (+).

Now loop the top over and then the bottom.

Cross the sides over one piece and under the other.

You can do this if you hold the two pieces between thumb and forefinger with one piece parallel to the thumb. Loop one of the perpendicular pieces loosely over the thumb leaving slack. Now loop the other end of the same piece the other way (One over from top to bottom and the other next to it from bottom over to top. Catch the pieces in your pinch.)