CogKnition » The Amazing Lace http://www.cogknition.org I knit (and crochet! and sew!), therefore I blog. Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:49:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Amazing Lace, Challenge #6 http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/amazing_lace6/ http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/amazing_lace6/#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:05:15 +0000 http://www.cogknition.org/amazinglace/amazing_lace6/ Print o' the Wave stole, and my model The poster reads, "Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now."]]> Your challenge—your final challenge—is to post a photo of your lace being proudly worn or displayed by the strangest, funniest, or most unlikely model you can find.

At first I thought I’d try to find a cardboard cutout of somebody menacing to model my lace. The Hulk! Darth Vader! Alas, they were unavailable.

Then I thought I’d do something completely unlikely, at least for me. I wear a dress and heels probably five days out of every year and usually it’s because someone is going to have my head if I don’t show up wearing something nice. I bother to do my unruly mass of hair even less often than that, because well…unruly mass of hair.

But look! It’s me! All dolled up! An unlikely model for sure.

I can twirl!

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]]> http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/amazing_lace6/feed/ 4 The Amazing Lace, Challenge #4 http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/amazing_lace4/ http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/amazing_lace4/#comments Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:46:54 +0000 http://www.cogknition.org/amazinglace/amazing_lace4/ If you bound off your lace RIGHT NOW - what could it be used for? What is... a bridal veil...
A bridal veil-slash-hairnet for a stuffed panda
...slash-lunch-lady hairnet for a stuffed panda?]]> If you bound off your lace RIGHT NOW – what could it be used for?

What is… a bridal veil…

A bridal veil-slash-hairnet for a stuffed panda

…slash-lunch-lady hairnet for a stuffed panda?

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]]> http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/amazing_lace4/feed/ 6 Meet Team CogKnition http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/teamcogknition/ http://www.cogknition.org/amazing_lace/teamcogknition/#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:12:08 +0000 http://www.cogknition.org/uncategorized/meet-team-cogknition/ Phil: I'm standing on the roof of some famous building in some scenic part of the country, where...lots and lots of teams...will depart from their everyday knitting and embark on a lace around the world.
Photo of Yvonne and the Print 'o the Wave Stole
]]> [The camera swoops in from somewhere scenic and focuses on a wind-blown man with a distinctive New Zealand accent walking among scores of knitters who are stitching away excitedly.]

Phil: I’m standing on the roof of some famous building in some scenic part of the country, where…lots and lots of teams…will depart from their everyday knitting and embark on a lace around the world.

Teams consist of one individual and one piece of lace who don’t have much of a pre-existing relationship. Contestants will be lacing around the world in teams of two without the benefit of…well, they’ll pretty much still have everything they normally have.

But they’ll also have each other! Or something like that. Yvonne and Print o’ the Wave Stole are roommates from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They haven’t lived with each other long and hope that they won’t kill each other during their time on the lace.

[Camera cuts to the swinging (ok, not really swinging) grad pad where Yvonne and Print o' the Wave Stole live.]

Photo of Yvonne and the Print 'o the Wave Stole

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