FRIDAY SURPRISE: It's knot my job!

Friday, November 07, 2008 Filed in: Friday Surprise!, Completely irrelevant, Things I like

Growing up on a farm it was necessary to know how to tie a knot. One had to be able to secure a load in the back of a pickup, lash a load of hay to a trailer (we didn't have those ratcheting tie-downs back then), or tie a tent down to it's pegs. It's not as if I learned a whole passel of knots, just a few well-proven ones that were useful in our day-to-day endeavors.

Knots can be both functional and beautiful, though, and in the last year or so I've learned how to do some fancier braiding and knot-tying. A lot of my inspiration comes from Stormdrane's blog - he's always finding neat things to do with cordage!

Spend some time on his site; it's fascinating and somewhat addicting. (Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go order some more paracord...)

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