A post for the shoe-tying (or not) hordes out there.

[conuly]

Bunny ears, if you're curious, is when you start with two loops instead of one.

Also, I think it's been long enough since the last time I linked to the shoelace site, and I always love that link. And now it's even appropriate!

Comments

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

How do you call it if you start with one?

[conuly]

Normal?

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

Bunny ears was the only way I could tie my shoes until about 7th grade. I didn't tie them myself until...fourth or fifth.

[conuly]

I just went without. Even after I learned to tie my shoes, I often went without because any method required retying for me, and it took me a while, my fingers were that slow!

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

OMG!

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

<Weeps with joy!>

[conuly]

I should link to this more often, methinks.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I think you mean http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/tying.htm (typing shoelaces) rather than http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm (lacing your shoes through the "eyes").

...Wow, I've been tying my shoes the wrong way all my life. No wonder they always slip.

I think I may have to change my starting knot - as he says on the page on slipping shoelace knots (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/slipping.htm), it's easier to learn how to do that one than to re-learn the "bow" part.

Strangely enough, I asked Stella how she tied her shoes and she does more or less the same knot as I do (Standard Shoelace Knot), except that she does the starting knot with very different hand movements (we both place the left lace over the right one, but she wraps the now-left one over-and-under on the left, while I wrap the now-right one under-and-over on the right -- the result is the same), and for the second part, we both form a loop on the right and pass the left lace in front of the loop and behind, then pull the loop through the whole, but she then pulls out the second loop with her left hand so it'll lie on the left, while I pull it out with my right hand so that it'll lie on the right.

So her end-result seems to lie much more horizontal than mind (which tends to be skew, as is apparently common with granny knots), yet we tie essentially the same knot.

My mind is now dripping out of my ears.

In other news, I got some new shoelaces since mine were starting to come apart (in a failure mode I don't think I've ever seen before: in the middle of the loop, the inside of the lace is coming through the outside, sort of like a tyre that's trying to invert itself or something), so this might be a good time to re-start my lacing habits. Perhaps even try to acquire an "Ian Knot" (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm) or something...

[conuly]

Actually, no, I really meant to link to the lacing page. I think it's the coolest one there, and I figured everybody here could click around to the shoe-tying part. Glad you noticed my dastardly plan, though :P

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

How do you call it if you start with one?

[conuly]

Normal?

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

Bunny ears was the only way I could tie my shoes until about 7th grade. I didn't tie them myself until...fourth or fifth.

[conuly]

I just went without. Even after I learned to tie my shoes, I often went without because any method required retying for me, and it took me a while, my fingers were that slow!

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

OMG!

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

<Weeps with joy!>

[conuly]

I should link to this more often, methinks.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I think you mean http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/tying.htm (typing shoelaces) rather than http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm (lacing your shoes through the "eyes").

...Wow, I've been tying my shoes the wrong way all my life. No wonder they always slip.

I think I may have to change my starting knot - as he says on the page on slipping shoelace knots (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/slipping.htm), it's easier to learn how to do that one than to re-learn the "bow" part.

Strangely enough, I asked Stella how she tied her shoes and she does more or less the same knot as I do (Standard Shoelace Knot), except that she does the starting knot with very different hand movements (we both place the left lace over the right one, but she wraps the now-left one over-and-under on the left, while I wrap the now-right one under-and-over on the right -- the result is the same), and for the second part, we both form a loop on the right and pass the left lace in front of the loop and behind, then pull the loop through the whole, but she then pulls out the second loop with her left hand so it'll lie on the left, while I pull it out with my right hand so that it'll lie on the right.

So her end-result seems to lie much more horizontal than mind (which tends to be skew, as is apparently common with granny knots), yet we tie essentially the same knot.

My mind is now dripping out of my ears.

In other news, I got some new shoelaces since mine were starting to come apart (in a failure mode I don't think I've ever seen before: in the middle of the loop, the inside of the lace is coming through the outside, sort of like a tyre that's trying to invert itself or something), so this might be a good time to re-start my lacing habits. Perhaps even try to acquire an "Ian Knot" (http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm) or something...

[conuly]

Actually, no, I really meant to link to the lacing page. I think it's the coolest one there, and I figured everybody here could click around to the shoe-tying part. Glad you noticed my dastardly plan, though :P