Wednesday, March 18, 2009

lacing up

My hiking boots were needing some less bedraggled laces and I knew I had some in a junk drawer. So I dug them out and unleashed them from the package to discover they must have been about 8' long*. Really, I must either start reading the labels better, or get around to learning just how long a mm is (it's been over 30 years since we went metric, I've had the time, I'm sure...)

Not wanting to waste them, even if they did likely come from the dollar store, I set about figuring a way to use them. Without tripping over the ends. Somewhere in my bookmarks, I had a site for shoelace designs. Creativity was beckoning me. In small measures.

I am usually pretty lazy when it comes to lacing up my shoes, and can be quite dyslexic enough just with the usual criss cross - I have been known to cross criss halfway up. But these lacing patterns just look so cool, I thought I should challenge my dexterity.






for more interesting lacing patterns see sneaker freaker
these were my favourites.
*yes, I've been known to exaggerate

18 comments:

  1. wow - those are cool patterns. I like the last one a lot.

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  2. Well those are just too cool for school! I'm going to have to get some longer laces and make a pattern.

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  3. That would have come in handy in 1983 to go with my converse high tops... :-)

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  4. My younger son insists on having them laced up straight across, like a ladder. It took me a while to figure out how to make that work.

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  5. Holey moley! There's no way I could figure out any of those! I must be dyslexic and didn't know it. Don't you have to have some kind of lacing degree to do that?

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  6. The last one is my favourite, too, Char. Still mastering it!

    I'd be interested to see how you get along, Geewits.

    Those would be perfect, Ed

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  7. Citizen, I like that look as well and it took me ages to figure out how to do it - I like this site for its easy to follow diagrams, Susan. I'm still dyslexic.

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  8. I do so like the designs. I tend to try the shoes with velcro, or elastic side panels??
    I know, I am a wimp!
    To think, I used to make macrame pot holders!!

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  9. Have you noticed that people always underestimate the length of their laces when they buy new ones? Something stubborn about them makes them do that.

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  10. My running shoes are done up with velcro, Meggie, so much easier!

    Or not paying attention, Irene (that's my excuse)

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  11. I'm not sure why,
    but these lace patterns somehow manage to confuse me

    (and I'm writing quite complex code at this very moment ;-)

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  12. Peter, now this may just show the difference between us - there are also written instructions, which I cannot follow. Give me a well drawn diagram and I can usually figure it out, write it out and I am lost. Same with maps.

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  13. I would have just cut one lace in half and used each half in one boot/shoe and twirled a little electrical tape at the ends to stop them from fraying. (Go electrical tape!!)

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  14. Those are some cool patterns! I never really thought much about how one laces one's shoes until now.

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  15. Oh my goodness! Yes, I'm like Violet Sky, I could figure it out from diagrams, but give me written instructions and I prefer to go and put the kettle on!

    I'd like to give one or two a go, as I have rather odd feet and mostly wear laced up shoes. But would they open wide for me to get my feet in??

    Very cool looking, though!

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  16. I am of the "pull the ends and it has to tighten on its own" school of thought. I hate having to pull the laces at each hole to tighten them. Cuz I'm lazy and all that.

    I'd've probably laced the boots and cut off the excess.

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  17. I could have done that Xup, but this was so much more fun.

    Maybe you'll put more thought into your footware's personality now, Kylie!

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  18. Gilly some of these (especially the lattice) are difficult to tighten. I'll post more on this later. Have a try though, check out the link.

    I'm trying to get out of being 'lazy like that', Jazz. It is work, believe you me!

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