Not The intended Use by Blue Tulip, Burn Unit
May 14th, 2008 2:34 PM / Location: 45.012211,-93.30930It is not intended to be yarn.
As a screen printer, BlueTulip has access to low cost cotton tee shirts through a variety of vendors. She used that to the fullest in acquiring the materials. At first we cut up the many shirts into long continuous strings from the bottom of the shirt, cutting in a spiral upward to the armpits. Then we balled up the yarn and put it into Blue Tulip's bucket. Burn Unit remembered an episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not where Jack Palance showed how to cut a large enough hole in a single sheet of notebook paper for an adult to walk through. (Hint: it involves folding it in half and cutting back and forth almost to the edge. Cut across all the folds except the end ones and voila. It's hard to describe in print...) This technique was applied to the shirts and we found a way to generate a ball of "yarn" much more rapidly.
Quite separated from their intended use, the tee shirts were ready for phase two. Blue Tulip employed her massive crochet skills to the task of tying together all these tee shirts into a rug. Now the properties of these shirts come back into usefulness as they are absorbent and washable, perfect for dealing with the inevitable staining this rug will endure before our front door.
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Thanks Lincoln!! Well, let's see if the voting player community agrees? Friends?
You know how sometimes on your Updates page, you'll see a comment left by a friend, then head on over to see what it's about...
Still wondering how my writing something here will make other players come over here to view and vote on this small piece of awesome.
Explain?
Your updates page shows you your friends' recent comments.
If a friend of yours writes something like "Best completion to date!" and you notice, then you will probably look at the praxis to see if you agree.
I hope Lincoln was being sarcastic...
If so, haha, well played.
If not... why didn't you know about this sooner!? You foolish fool.
I assumed he was until he felt the need to ask again.
If it was still sarcastic, then I am a fool.
Lincoln, I thought you were joking. Dok's right.
It's an interesting notion, one I've been wondering about. Which is why I've been working on a survey to gather anecdotal data about the way people interact with the site.
Might as well start rolling it out now.
Please Come Fill Out This Survey.
How could I play the game and not know about the recent comments on the update page? That is in fact the only way I know what's going on on the site, and my ruse worked, because now all of Dok Harmon's, Ben's, and BU's friends all got an update and hopefully will come and check out some awesome that is woefully short on votes.
Success!
I'm OK with this.
(By the way, this is why I try to be in the habit that if I vote and can think of something to say, I comment. And I keep my friends list long to attract that sort of attention both for my own tasks and those of others.)
Giving a vote means I think the task was done well, within the rules and shows signs of thought and effort.
When the awesome is stepped up I add comments.
"When the awesome is stepped up". That's great... as is this task!
I just add comments because I like to see the little red numbers show up on the right.
I like the bright colors. (Though, using old T-shirts would also have been cool). Very nice.
That's what I told her, too. She points out that at the rates she gets for new, acquiring old t-shirts was marginally more expensive.
Actually one could argue that it is BETTER to use new shirts as they were NEVER used as intended. Or not.
here's another interesting use for t-shirts...
A good friend of mine used old t-shirts to spruce up their duvet. Better than throwing the old favourites away!
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