When you’re making a necklace out of rope and house paint, it’s time to stop crafting. Either that, or make it a few feet longer and throw one end over the ceiling fan.
I’m pretty sure that was kind of exactly the joke from the title.
“Afraid Not” = “A Frayed Knot”.
94 “thumbs-ups” for paraphrasing the title and vaguely stating that the item is undesirable, which is kind of what this site is all about. I need to find a way to harness this potential and then cash in my points for valuable prizes.
It’s many more thumbs than that now! Having your post disparaged by someone obviously jealous of its popularity is worth a LOT more positive attention.
I was hoping someone would mention that. Most ceiling fans aren’t reinforced enough to do the job. At most they’d wind up waking up later and have to do some home repair. Now if they tossed it over a beam, that might do the trick.
No, they could just pick up the shattered remains of the ceiling fan, photograph it in front of some barn wood, tag it “primitive art”, and add it to their etsy store.
Actually it is. It’s called the “if some douchebag ties this around their neck after dipping the ends in paint, toss them overboard and chum the waters” knot.
I’m guessing this was made by a forcibly retired pretzel maker. And is the buyer going to be steamed when they open the shipping box and find this untied.
That was my thought. As crappy a necklace as it is, at least paint all of it. Maybe add another color, or an interesting design. Just something more than dipping the bottom in a can of paint!
There are literally hundreds of better necklaces you can make with the exact same ingredients. Better and more interesting knots to be tied, for the most part, but my friend’s five-year-old would look at me like I was HIGH if I suggested this craft.
When a five year old thinks it’s whack, do something better.
also, i could totally get in on a terrible-knot-necklace contest. I already have the same shitty rope, and i only know two knots: square and surgeon’s. MAY THE SHITTIEST NECKLACE WIN.
It’s knot. Heh heh. That was more fun than I thought it would be. A square knot requires two pieces of rope, and that…thing is clearly only one piece of failure.
This is something we should not explain to them. Then we can see what kind of idiot they are. Are they the kind of idiot who makes a necklace like this? Or are they the kind of idiot who makes a necklace like this but isn’t bright enough to wait for the paint to dry. This is an important distinction.
1. Tie knot in rope
2. Open paint container
3. dip brush into paint
4. Paint the rope
5. Do not eat paint
6. Let paint dry
7. Wash paint off hands
8. Dry hands with towel
9. Walla! Wear necklace and enjoy!
(I write instructions for a living. Can’t you tell?)
I can’t wash the paint off my hands until after it dries? I definitely would have messed that step up!
I’m confused about step 1, though… I tied a knot, but now I just have a rope with a knot in the middle. It doesn’t resemble a circle, and I can’t get it to stay on my neck. What did I do wrong???!?!???
I had an assistant manager show up to a meeting with, I quote “A bolo tie”. I told him if came to another meeting representing the kind of people I promote, with a shoelace and a buckle instead of a tie I would make him eat it.
I recommend you steer clear of Arizona and vicinity, where the bolo is a storied and traditional item of attire. However, I concur that men who are not there (or at the very least from there) tend to look like they’re in costume as dude ranch douchenozzles when they wear bolo ties.
I actually like that jewelry, or at least some of it. She’s cast some of the rope in metal, and she’s made nice ends for it, and she uses interestingly colored rope. It’s not just tied in a knot and painted with housepaint.
Sorry, but everything she “designs” pretty much looks like the stretchy cables you use to secure a tarp on top of whatever shit pile happens to be in the bed of your truck.
Thank you, I wasn’t sure about the terminology but now I am!
I’m actually a lady, so it makes sense that I wouldn’t know much about bungie cords (cables? whatever). But I do have sense to know that this “designer’s” shit is shit.
But I can’t see the nipples because her website wants me to enter a password! What the hell is an “Orley Genger” anyway? Just sounds like “oral ginger.”
Behold! Here is the famed awesome unbreakable, unsolvable GORDIAN KNOT!! It has baffled humankind for centuries upon centuries. Like you, people have been completely stunned upon viewing it for the first time, walking away and shaking their heads. The Mysteries of The Ancients live on!!!
Still, you gotta wonder how the seller keeps his/her shoes tied, eh?
This. Because when I also read that word, I immediately went, “Wogglewogglewoggle.” Out loud. Thank god I am single and only my cat heard me do it and then laugh hysterically after.
So let me get this straight: you accidentally dropped a scrap of rope into a paint tray of Barney purple while you were painting your kids nursery, tied it into a knot and now it’s online for the rest of the un-creative people of the world to duplicate? Ummm…
That stuff is called plasti-dip and to my knowledge it doesn’t come in barney poop or any other remotely purple color. It does come in red, black, white and yellow (I think).
In their defense, the projects they feature are usually better than this…but yeah, they get some real misses. Sadly, those “misses” seem to be increasing in number lately. It’s a shame, too; the Craft website is brought to you by the same company that does the Make website and the flagship MakerFaire out in California (O’Reilly Publishing, if I remember correctly).
Apparently anything with rope is “nautical” in the same way anything dirty is “primitive.” So if you let the dog play with this, you’ve got yourself a twofer… And maybe you could just let the dog have it? Please?
When I was in the Boy Scouts, I was proud of my first successful Bowline Hitch. But I really didn’t feel the need to dip it in paint and show it off around my neck.
These are knots I’ve made with approximately the same type of cording, a lighter, and an hour for all four of them (The ocean plait took longer, but I can make a woggle bracelet in under ten minutes).
Reminds me of my favorite joke:
A string walks in to a bar and orders a beer. The bartender looks at the string and says, “Get out-We don’t serve Strings here!” The string was sad and walked out the door. He ran in to another string. “Why so sad?” said the second string. The first string told him what the bartender said. “We’ll fix HIM!” said the second string. He tied his friend into a knot and frayed all the edges and sent him back inside. The bartender looked up and said,”I told you, NO STRINGS! Aren’t you a STRING??” “No sir”, said the string. “I’m a frayed knot.”
Alright, since you started it…
A grasshopper walks into a bar and sits at the counter. The bartender turns around and says “sorry buddy, we don’t serve grasshoppers here.” The grasshopper looks up and says “oh that’s OK, I came in for a martini.”
A mushroom walks into a bar and takes a seat. “Hey, we don’t serve mushrooms here!” says the bartender. “What are you talking about?” says the mushroom. “I’m not a mushroom — I’m a fun guy!”
(My husband always reminds me that mushrooms are not the same as fungi, but I stand by my stupid joke anyway.)
I got curious and actually read the how-to. Then I was very, very sad. Now I’m going to drink until I forget that someone actually manages to sell that shit successfully enough that there are copycats out there.
But just think how classy your feeding tube would be if you just dipped it in some housepaint. Everyone else in the intensive care unit will be so envious.
This is by the same people who publish Make Magazine, stuff like this sometimes ends up sandwiched between articles on how to build catapults or how to program robots.
Yeah, I usually flip past the pages with “crafts” on them.
Quite the contrary, Maurice Sendak, the author of Where The Wild Things Are, passed on yesterday. I’m actually surprised there isn’t a Tragicrafting® post in his honor yet.
I can’t be the only one who thinks the ‘cast rope’ in her other items collection is incredibly strongly reminiscent of the multi-braid woven tubes you find in the plumbing department at the hardware store. You know the ones that make flushing crap so much easier…
awww man if only Helen were smart enough to know how funny ‘afraid knot’ would be. of course a frayed knot would be even funnier yet, although just titling the piece ‘afraid not’ and watching as people almost get it is the funniest yet.
If you think that’s interesting, you should check out her necklace made out of chain tied on with a scarf and the color clock purse made with duct tape.
I *think* that’s supposed to be a square knot….but if so it’s terrible. I’ve seen much pretty square knots used as jewelry before…and they didn’t involve being dipped in paint for ‘flair’.
Someone posted a comment on the tutorial that said “You made Regretsy!” and someone right after them said something to the effect of “This took you a week? I’ll bet you have thousands of these on your Etsy store tomorrow.” Now both comments have disappeared from the blog. Interesting…
May 9, 2012 at 1:32 pm
In memory of those who were hung during the Wild West days.
May 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm
“Hung” in the Wild West Days? Where are the pictures of THAT? cause um… yes please… oh wait… did you mean hanged? because that’s not so fun.
May 9, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Hung is different than hanged?
That’s noose to me.
May 9, 2012 at 1:41 pm
ba dum bum!
May 9, 2012 at 3:25 pm
There’s no reason a young lasso such as yourself should know that.
May 9, 2012 at 4:20 pm
*There’s no reason a lasso young as yourself should know that.
May 9, 2012 at 1:41 pm
No, hung. The purple represents 7 inches or more.
May 9, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Touche! and um…. how do you know the hanky/neck noose/nautical nylon cord code?
May 9, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I’m an old married
ladybroad, and even I know that code.The well-hung henchman to Horrible Harry Heinie was hanged at high noon.
May 10, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Are you referring to the well-hung young goat-fucker from Kalgoorlie?
Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdhlt0m2-bU
May 9, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Nice necklace……….KNOT!
May 9, 2012 at 2:24 pm
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May 9, 2012 at 5:15 pm
It’s many more thumbs than that now! Having your post disparaged by someone obviously jealous of its popularity is worth a LOT more positive attention.
May 10, 2012 at 1:29 pm
WHOA WHOA WHOA hold the phone there cowboy, in return for likes APRIL gives out free shit! How have I knot been aware of this!
May 9, 2012 at 1:32 pm
I’m sure 20 will be on sale on Etsy tomorrow.
May 9, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Tagged as “vintage” and “steampunk”, no doubt?
May 9, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Primative! Folk Art!
May 10, 2012 at 9:11 am
Don’t forget “artisan.” It’s a Classic Sailing Bowline knot, after all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfLu7GRMR7g
May 9, 2012 at 11:39 pm
A rope with a knot in it? It’s the perfect Mother’s Day gift! Provided you hate your mother.
May 9, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I vote for throwing one end over the ceiling fan. If they need help, I have a good throwing arm.
May 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm
I’m just afraid the ceiling fan wouldn’t hold most of the craft-tards up long enough to do the job.
May 9, 2012 at 3:51 pm
I was hoping someone would mention that. Most ceiling fans aren’t reinforced enough to do the job. At most they’d wind up waking up later and have to do some home repair. Now if they tossed it over a beam, that might do the trick.
May 9, 2012 at 8:00 pm
They won’t be able to get to the point of hanging themselves. They need a tutorial for how to throw the rope over the fan and there isn’t one yet.
May 10, 2012 at 7:38 am
No, they could just pick up the shattered remains of the ceiling fan, photograph it in front of some barn wood, tag it “primitive art”, and add it to their etsy store.
May 11, 2012 at 10:13 am
I obviously misinterpreted HK’s suggestion. I thought she was giving out plans for an automated ceiling-fan flogger.
May 9, 2012 at 1:33 pm
What a dipship.
May 9, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Speaking of dipships, they’re called lines when they’re on boats and the knot is not a known nautical knot.
May 9, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Actually it is. It’s called the “if some douchebag ties this around their neck after dipping the ends in paint, toss them overboard and chum the waters” knot.
May 9, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Or “handle” for short.
May 9, 2012 at 2:12 pm
That’s it! That’s what the “necklace” is for – when the scientists drag the idiot behind the boat to attract sharks, they want a good, strong line.
May 9, 2012 at 2:19 pm
So to abbreviate your name, we could just call it an etsy?
May 10, 2012 at 1:30 am
I’m guessing this was made by a forcibly retired pretzel maker. And is the buyer going to be steamed when they open the shipping box and find this untied.
May 9, 2012 at 1:33 pm
And she didn’t even bother to paint the whole thing. Wow.
May 9, 2012 at 1:34 pm
That was my thought. As crappy a necklace as it is, at least paint all of it. Maybe add another color, or an interesting design. Just something more than dipping the bottom in a can of paint!
May 9, 2012 at 3:08 pm
But then it’s not “artistic”. Its just a painted rope, and that would just be dumb.
May 9, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Wow.
There are literally hundreds of better necklaces you can make with the exact same ingredients. Better and more interesting knots to be tied, for the most part, but my friend’s five-year-old would look at me like I was HIGH if I suggested this craft.
When a five year old thinks it’s whack, do something better.
May 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
I smell a contest
May 9, 2012 at 1:36 pm
I smell latex paint.
Or Barney blood, I’m not sure anymore.
May 9, 2012 at 3:25 pm
I smell Sharpies!
You know… just for fun.
May 9, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Needs macaroni
May 9, 2012 at 2:12 pm
and glitter.
May 9, 2012 at 2:35 pm
And an anchor, to make it Etsy trendy. One of those plastic rhinestone striped anchor charms on chains in the reseller shops.
May 9, 2012 at 3:29 pm
No, it needs an octopus!
May 9, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Why not both?
May 9, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Why not Zoidberg?
May 9, 2012 at 4:49 pm
5 cents says the knot’s not even a square knot!
also, i could totally get in on a terrible-knot-necklace contest. I already have the same shitty rope, and i only know two knots: square and surgeon’s. MAY THE SHITTIEST NECKLACE WIN.
May 9, 2012 at 8:20 pm
It’s knot. Heh heh. That was more fun than I thought it would be. A square knot requires two pieces of rope, and that…thing is clearly only one piece of failure.
May 10, 2012 at 9:05 pm
You can do a square knot with 1 rope! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_knot
But this definitely isn’t one.
May 9, 2012 at 1:33 pm
It’s knot what I’m looking for.
May 9, 2012 at 1:34 pm
… How-to? There needs to be a tutorial on this shit?
May 9, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Step one: Get high…
May 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Huff that paint!
May 9, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Exactly what I was thinking.
1. Tie knot in rope. Be careful not to tie it around your neck and strangle yourself as so many knot necklace enthusiasts have done before. RIP…
2. Dip in housepaint. Be careful not to dip in poison. So many of us have been lost to these 2 dire mistakes.
3. Wear necklace and enjoy!
May 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm
If someone is enough of an idiot to need instructions, then you need to make the instructions idiot-proof.
Between #2-3, add: Let paint dry!
I can just see all these idiots, running around wearing the “necklace”, with paint on their chests.
May 9, 2012 at 2:08 pm
This is something we should not explain to them. Then we can see what kind of idiot they are. Are they the kind of idiot who makes a necklace like this? Or are they the kind of idiot who makes a necklace like this but isn’t bright enough to wait for the paint to dry. This is an important distinction.
May 9, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Just the fact that someone might need a tutorial for this proves that Darwin’s principles are no longer at work.
May 9, 2012 at 2:17 pm
1. Tie knot in rope
2. Open paint container
3. dip brush into paint
4. Paint the rope
5. Do not eat paint
6. Let paint dry
7. Wash paint off hands
8. Dry hands with towel
9. Walla! Wear necklace and enjoy!
(I write instructions for a living. Can’t you tell?)
May 9, 2012 at 3:26 pm
I will eat the paint if I want. You don’t own me with your rules!!!!
May 9, 2012 at 3:31 pm
in reference to number 5: If I can’t eat it then I assume that sniffing it is fine.
May 9, 2012 at 3:52 pm
I can’t wash the paint off my hands until after it dries? I definitely would have messed that step up!
I’m confused about step 1, though… I tied a knot, but now I just have a rope with a knot in the middle. It doesn’t resemble a circle, and I can’t get it to stay on my neck. What did I do wrong???!?!???
May 10, 2012 at 8:32 am
“I just blue myself.”
May 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
I guess her husband puts some bootlaces around his neck and calls it his tie.
May 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm
The dog wraps a tapeworm around it’s face and calls it a leash.
May 9, 2012 at 1:58 pm
I wrap bacon around fried chicken and call it dinner.
May 9, 2012 at 2:04 pm
What time should I be there?
May 9, 2012 at 2:10 pm
I had an assistant manager show up to a meeting with, I quote “A bolo tie”. I told him if came to another meeting representing the kind of people I promote, with a shoelace and a buckle instead of a tie I would make him eat it.
May 9, 2012 at 2:58 pm
I recommend you steer clear of Arizona and vicinity, where the bolo is a storied and traditional item of attire. However, I concur that men who are not there (or at the very least from there) tend to look like they’re in costume as dude ranch douchenozzles when they wear bolo ties.
May 9, 2012 at 5:44 pm
I firmly contend that unless they’re a fifty-plus leathery outdoorsman dressed up for a parade or Sunday church, they still look like that.
May 9, 2012 at 2:11 pm
There’s a hilarious DIY tubal ligation joke in here somewhere…
May 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Guess what shit was on clearance at Home Depot this week?
May 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
If a “How To” has less than two steps, is it really a “How To”?
May 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm
A How-Two?
May 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm
A How Knot?
May 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm
I think that this should be less “how” and more “why?”
May 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
The “inspirational” “jewelry” is equally bad, but at least there are nipples. http://www.jaclynmayer.com/collection.html
May 9, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I actually like that jewelry, or at least some of it. She’s cast some of the rope in metal, and she’s made nice ends for it, and she uses interestingly colored rope. It’s not just tied in a knot and painted with housepaint.

May 9, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Sorry, but everything she “designs” pretty much looks like the stretchy cables you use to secure a tarp on top of whatever shit pile happens to be in the bed of your truck.
May 10, 2012 at 12:40 am
I believe you speak of bungie cords, my good man.
May 10, 2012 at 2:41 am
Thank you, I wasn’t sure about the terminology but now I am!
I’m actually a lady, so it makes sense that I wouldn’t know much about bungie cords (cables? whatever). But I do have sense to know that this “designer’s” shit is shit.
May 10, 2012 at 3:34 pm
But I can’t see the nipples because her website wants me to enter a password! What the hell is an “Orley Genger” anyway? Just sounds like “oral ginger.”
May 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Good lord. How lazy do you have to be to not even pick an actual nautical knot?
Do a monkey’s fist, or bowline, or sheet bend.
This looks like they tried to tie a shoe and only got half way before they got high on the paint fumes.
May 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Seriously! My brother, an actual sailor, would be appalled at calling these “nautical knots.” There are way prettier knots out there.
May 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Or a carrick bend, or a ocean plait, or a woggle. There’s plenty of awesome decorative knots!
May 9, 2012 at 1:42 pm
With interesting and marketable names, no less.
May 9, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Agree. Imagine advertising a necklace that has both a monkey’s fist and a sheet bend; that’s sure to stimulate some interest.
May 10, 2012 at 1:50 am
Behold! Here is the famed awesome unbreakable, unsolvable GORDIAN KNOT!! It has baffled humankind for centuries upon centuries. Like you, people have been completely stunned upon viewing it for the first time, walking away and shaking their heads. The Mysteries of The Ancients live on!!!
Still, you gotta wonder how the seller keeps his/her shoes tied, eh?
May 10, 2012 at 9:24 pm
So I was actually looking up stuff on combining monkey’s fists and sheet bends and ran across this: http://cxxvi.net/products/monkey-fist-keychain-red
IT’S SPREADING.
May 9, 2012 at 5:52 pm
I’d like to heartily endorse the word woggle.
Woggle woggle woggle.
May 9, 2012 at 7:41 pm
This. Because when I also read that word, I immediately went, “Wogglewogglewoggle.” Out loud. Thank god I am single and only my cat heard me do it and then laugh hysterically after.
May 9, 2012 at 1:40 pm
I think the person probably started the craft high on the paint fumes.
May 9, 2012 at 3:21 pm
And if you’re not going to do a nautical knot, how about something pretty like one of the Chinese lanyard knots?
May 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I said “NO STRINGS ALLOWED” But can’t you see? I’m a frayed knot. ba dum dum
May 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm
You should see her tampon-string earrings!
May 9, 2012 at 2:16 pm
I assume red, not purple?
May 9, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Oh god, I hope not purple…get that shit checked out…
May 10, 2012 at 11:19 am
Hey, in TV ads it’s always blue. Make you wonder what those women do in the bathroom – chew bowl cleaner?
May 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm
The perfect gift for the Well Hung man! Or Drag Queen! Use for Multipurpose!
May 9, 2012 at 2:20 pm
If someone gave me that as a gift I’d be fit to be tied.
May 9, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Last used on Barney.
May 9, 2012 at 1:38 pm
So let me get this straight: you accidentally dropped a scrap of rope into a paint tray of Barney purple while you were painting your kids nursery, tied it into a knot and now it’s online for the rest of the un-creative people of the world to duplicate? Ummm…
May 9, 2012 at 2:17 pm
But of course, since purple is so well know as a nautical color.
May 9, 2012 at 1:40 pm
I’d hate to encounter the fucktard that actually needs a tutorial to make a piece of shit necklace like this.
May 9, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Sadly, that is the crafter-mom’s version of this necklace:
except with mod podge, house paint and their kid’s old jumprope.
May 9, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Jesus….
May 9, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Yeah… $245?
May 9, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Oh good god…
May 9, 2012 at 2:20 pm
really? I thought it was that stuff they dip pliers and other tools in to make the handles.
May 9, 2012 at 2:55 pm
That stuff is called plasti-dip and to my knowledge it doesn’t come in barney poop or any other remotely purple color. It does come in red, black, white and yellow (I think).
Why on earth…no wait don’t answer that.
May 9, 2012 at 3:46 pm
I’ve seen it in blue, I have a pair of gardening gloves around here somewhere… perhaps they just mixed red and blue?
May 9, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Holy fucktards on a popsicle stick — the website featuring this actually has the balls to call themselve “Craft”.
May 9, 2012 at 2:10 pm
The “ft” is pronounced as “p”.
May 9, 2012 at 2:46 pm
In their defense, the projects they feature are usually better than this…but yeah, they get some real misses. Sadly, those “misses” seem to be increasing in number lately. It’s a shame, too; the Craft website is brought to you by the same company that does the Make website and the flagship MakerFaire out in California (O’Reilly Publishing, if I remember correctly).
May 9, 2012 at 3:48 pm
This is true, honestly…they have had some good stuff but pickin’s have been slim recently.
May 9, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Apparently anything with rope is “nautical” in the same way anything dirty is “primitive.” So if you let the dog play with this, you’ve got yourself a twofer… And maybe you could just let the dog have it? Please?
May 9, 2012 at 2:08 pm
…if nautical nonsense be something you wish…
June 1, 2012 at 8:46 am
…then drop on the deck, and flop like a fish… (probably in a fit of seizure due to Ugly.)
May 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Oh it’s dirt that makes something primitive? I thought it was blue-and-white or red-and-white plaid ribbon…
I learn so damn much from this site!
May 9, 2012 at 5:44 pm
I thought the dirt made it vintage, the ribbon made it rustic, and it was the combo that made it primitive?
May 10, 2012 at 12:46 am
No way. No way I want to see that when it comes out the other end of the dog. I’ve seen too many horrors as it is.
May 15, 2012 at 7:58 am
Actually, I suspect it would look pretty much the same.
May 9, 2012 at 1:53 pm
I didn’t think the beads were supposed to be removable. Somebody’s ER doctor is going to have one hell of a story for the weekend golf outing.
May 9, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Thank god you caught this! I saw it yesterday and thought of Regretsy.
May 9, 2012 at 1:55 pm
When I was in the Boy Scouts, I was proud of my first successful Bowline Hitch. But I really didn’t feel the need to dip it in paint and show it off around my neck.
May 9, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Well, not in that particular shade of purple at least…
May 9, 2012 at 2:00 pm
These are knots I’ve made with approximately the same type of cording, a lighter, and an hour for all four of them (The ocean plait took longer, but I can make a woggle bracelet in under ten minutes).
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=349722071748961&set=a.158801424174361.41362.100001335121744&type=3&theater
And this sort of nonsense is what this site puts up? Really?
May 9, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Turk’s head knots are fun, aren’t they? (I once lashed a bike computer’s loose cord to the brake cable with a few of them.)
May 9, 2012 at 3:43 pm
I know, right? And they look so nice.
May 9, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Reminds me of my favorite joke:
A string walks in to a bar and orders a beer. The bartender looks at the string and says, “Get out-We don’t serve Strings here!” The string was sad and walked out the door. He ran in to another string. “Why so sad?” said the second string. The first string told him what the bartender said. “We’ll fix HIM!” said the second string. He tied his friend into a knot and frayed all the edges and sent him back inside. The bartender looked up and said,”I told you, NO STRINGS! Aren’t you a STRING??” “No sir”, said the string. “I’m a frayed knot.”
May 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Alright, since you started it…
A grasshopper walks into a bar and sits at the counter. The bartender turns around and says “sorry buddy, we don’t serve grasshoppers here.” The grasshopper looks up and says “oh that’s OK, I came in for a martini.”
May 9, 2012 at 3:03 pm
The bartender says “We don’t serve faster-than-light particles in here.”
A neutrino walks into a bar.
(Yes, I’m a nerd.)
May 9, 2012 at 3:41 pm
A neutron walks in to a bar and asks the bartender “How much for a beer?” The barman replies “For you, no charge.”
May 9, 2012 at 3:44 pm
A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says “Hey, why the long face?”
May 9, 2012 at 3:51 pm
A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar, and the bartender says “what is this, some sort of joke?”
May 10, 2012 at 12:24 am
So Amedeo Modigliani walks into a bar, and the bartender says, “Why the long face?”
May 10, 2012 at 12:48 am
Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender asks him if he wants a Coors Light. Descartes says “I think not” – and disappears.
May 10, 2012 at 8:58 am
A mushroom walks into a bar and takes a seat. “Hey, we don’t serve mushrooms here!” says the bartender. “What are you talking about?” says the mushroom. “I’m not a mushroom — I’m a fun guy!”
(My husband always reminds me that mushrooms are not the same as fungi, but I stand by my stupid joke anyway.)
May 10, 2012 at 10:19 am
Not all fungi are mushrooms, but all mushrooms are fungi.
So your joke stands.
(Alan Davies’ version: “Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he was a fun guy.”)
May 10, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Why did the fun guy leave the party?
Because there wasn’t mushroom!
May 9, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Two guys walked into a bar.
The third one ducked.
May 9, 2012 at 2:03 pm
I got curious and actually read the how-to. Then I was very, very sad. Now I’m going to drink until I forget that someone actually manages to sell that shit successfully enough that there are copycats out there.
May 10, 2012 at 1:31 pm
I’m just waiting for the chinese resellers.
May 9, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Don’t be silly, the ceiling fan would never be strong enough to do the job. I don’t want to wind up taking my meals through a tube.
May 10, 2012 at 7:44 am
But just think how classy your feeding tube would be if you just dipped it in some housepaint. Everyone else in the intensive care unit will be so envious.
May 9, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Is May national tie your tubes month? Either way I’m not wearing a purple rope tied around my neck to support it.
May 9, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Maybe it’s supposed to be reminiscent of the umbilical cord.
May 9, 2012 at 3:52 pm
May 14th is the 16th anniversary of my closing down the factory.
It’s also my son’s birthday.
May 9, 2012 at 2:09 pm
I pretty much hate the world today, and this just inspires me to find some idiots to practice my “necklace tying” skills on.
May 9, 2012 at 2:12 pm
This is by the same people who publish Make Magazine, stuff like this sometimes ends up sandwiched between articles on how to build catapults or how to program robots.
Yeah, I usually flip past the pages with “crafts” on them.
May 9, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Craft:
transforming traditional crafts
This is why you need to ask yourself not just IF you can do something, but if you SHOULD do something.
May 9, 2012 at 2:14 pm
I don’t know about you guys, but when I tie one on, I am usually referring to a bottle of gin and not literally, um.. tying one on. Wow.
May 9, 2012 at 2:31 pm
I actually subscribe to that newsletter. Glad to know I’m not the only one who looked at it and said “That’s the dumbest shit ever.”
May 9, 2012 at 2:44 pm
I kinda like the yellow one…
May 9, 2012 at 2:47 pm
I’m fairly certain I was making more complex crafts than that in kindergarten.
May 9, 2012 at 2:48 pm
My favorite comment on that tutorial, “You made Regretsy! Congratulations.
” The service mark of success and innovation.
May 9, 2012 at 2:59 pm
If I use brown rope and add some feathers, can I tag it as “tribal”?
May 9, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Add a few gears: Steampunk!
Add some of the metal tabs from coke cans: Upcycled!
Too bad there are no recent celebrity deaths….
May 9, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Quite the contrary, Maurice Sendak, the author of Where The Wild Things Are, passed on yesterday. I’m actually surprised there isn’t a Tragicrafting® post in his honor yet.
May 9, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Also, MCA from the Beastie Boys.
May 10, 2012 at 12:50 am
May 9, 2012 at 3:02 pm
I can’t be the only one who thinks the ‘cast rope’ in her other items collection is incredibly strongly reminiscent of the multi-braid woven tubes you find in the plumbing department at the hardware store. You know the ones that make flushing crap so much easier…
May 9, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Looks like a future neck rash.
May 9, 2012 at 3:13 pm
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May 9, 2012 at 3:46 pm
ba dun…DONE
May 9, 2012 at 4:06 pm
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May 9, 2012 at 4:01 pm
ooh ooh you know what would go perfectly with this necklace? social ostracism.
May 9, 2012 at 4:19 pm
If you think that’s interesting, you should check out her necklace made out of chain tied on with a scarf and the color clock purse made with duct tape.
May 9, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Color block, even. I was apparently so shocked I couldn’t type
May 9, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Anyone seen today’s Get Fuzzy? It made me think of regretsy.
http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2012/05/09
May 9, 2012 at 8:23 pm
That, my friend, is the design philosophy of the average Etsy seller. Excellent!
May 10, 2012 at 3:42 pm
I saw it and thought of Regretsy also. However, Bucky’s hybriproducts actually have uses (kind of), so that’s where the similarities stop.
May 9, 2012 at 7:42 pm
I *think* that’s supposed to be a square knot….but if so it’s terrible. I’ve seen much pretty square knots used as jewelry before…and they didn’t involve being dipped in paint for ‘flair’.
May 9, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Someone posted a comment on the tutorial that said “You made Regretsy!” and someone right after them said something to the effect of “This took you a week? I’ll bet you have thousands of these on your Etsy store tomorrow.” Now both comments have disappeared from the blog. Interesting…
May 10, 2012 at 10:23 am
Yep. The only comments there are running high on the cupcake meter.
May 11, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Oh honey I wouldn’t strangle my worst enemy with that mess…Miss Regretsy Lastnight does not approve!
July 2, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Why on earth does this need a How-To tutorial? I can figure out how to make this thing just by looking at it:
1. tie a rope into a knot, leaving enough room for your head
2. dip the knot part into some latex paint
3. slap that shiz on etsy, and charge $47