Camp Gowonagin coming soon!

[sharlit]

I made an ImageStation album of how to make a box knot. I dunno if it'll be helpful, but hopefully it's a little amusing.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286364159

[moderator]

Sarah...your instruction guide worked perfectly and I was able to finish off the lanyards.

The lanyards required doing the box-knot *around* a rope braid, so it was a little confusing, but your instructions made it easy to learn and do! Thanks so much for putting this online.

I will need to learn the trick of photographing with my nose, next. [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ July 02, 2004 01:18 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>

[moderator]

Originally posted by SarahS:
They had a new package that had holographic lace which was way cool...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I got a little roll, but I didn't get much (only 5 yards!). I don't recommend it if it's the same as the brand I got. It's a little larger in width (not noticeable to the naked eye), so when you use it along with another non-hologram color, it throws it off so that you end up making a lopsided rectangle instead of a square. Maybe if both colors are the hologram lace it would work better. Just a little caveat emptor! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[AGTeacher]

ACK! these lanyards!!! I see them EVERYWHERE at Camp! but it is not the kids that play with them, but the counselors! Drive me nuts! Cuase they do these lanyards instead of watching the children or working!

I wished I could done the lanyard with the whistle for a Molly lesson, but the kids already know this. What else can we use they lanyards connected with AG?

[moderator]

Ria, how about a dragonfly pin? It's not 100% related, except you can remind them that Linda was learning lanyard-making at Camp Gowonagin. This website tells how to make them:
http://www.cam.com/gimp/
Maybe the kids don't know cobra stitch yet (?). It looks more complicated than some of the other ones.

[sharlit]

Originally posted by Melissa:
[QB]it might be costly for a whole camp to do a lanyard project involving whistles.QB]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe the camp will have a resource for getting whistles cheaply in bulk.

And Melissa, thanks for the warning on the holographic lace!

[AGTeacher]

I do not think whistles will work, amybe something else, I do not want to have 100 kids blowing them at the same time, lol!

We got unlimited supply of lanyard string, with over 20 plus colors.

I think that I may use it for the AG club to do a lanyard with "something" for their dolls!

[AGTeacher]

Never seen a cobra stitch, I may not know what the names of the different stitches are though. I have seen the round and the box only. Hmm.. how many different types are there? and can someone show me the steps?

Thanks Melissa for the link. saw some good ones! I never knew they will be so many! I like the lanyard the best, but the picture is not good though, darn!

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ July 03, 2004 12:16 PM: Message edited by: AGTeacher ]</font>

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Ria, I made the lanyard but don't have a finished photo online. Here's one in progress (near the middle of the page):

http://www.angelfire.com/mi/FAST/camp.html

I didn't finish this one because I found other colors I liked better. [img]redface.gif[/img] But the only part not finished in the photo is the 1" of box stitch I was supposed to do. If this photo isn't clear enough, let me know because I have a couple that are finished that I could take a photo of. One thing I noticed is that Linda's lanyard as drawn by Keith Skeen is wrong. Not only are the knots in it not realistic-looking, but it also doesn't match Valerie Tripp's accurate description of a lanyard as "a cord to hang a whistle on..." He drew it as a cord where the whistle is set on the cord permanently and in one color; people usually use two colors, especially if they are beginners like Linda, and the whistle is on a hook so that it can be removed. Now that I know more about lanyards that vignette is always going to bug me! [img]wink.gif[/img]

The lanyard string is very cheap, but I could only find whistles at sports supply stores and they were not priced very economically (thankfully my parents help with activities related to mentoring...which is a volunteer job I end up paying to do! [img]eek.gif[/img] )...it might be costly for a whole camp to do a lanyard project involving whistles.

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ July 03, 2004 01:01 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>