Makes your laces sit a bit funny compared to regular

If you have inadvertently been tying granny knots, you may notice:

1) Instead of the bows hanging to the sides, they naturally want to hang along the length of your show (one pointing diagonally away from you, and the other diagonally towards you).

2) Your shoelaces get undone often, unless you do a double knot.

The fix (whether you tie your bow using the regular way, bunny ears, or Ian Knot) is to reverse the direction of your initial knot.

If you watch this video I made, you will see that the Ian Knot (when done according to the instructions on Ian's site) results in the laces sit just how they should: https://youtu.be/JaBmehtalAY

I never mastered the most common single loop method; it never made sense to me to have an asymmetrical way to tie a symmetrical knot, so I used the bunny ears with two loops, until I learned about the Ian knot with zero loops, and it's a very easy and quick way to tie your shoes.

The resulting knot is the same with all of them, however. Either the regular knot or the granny knot, depending on how you do them.

The end result is the same as the regular way of tying it. perhaps you are doing a https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/crossedianknot.htm by mistake

I started using the Berluti knot last year, and it has never failed me. It takes a bit longer to tie, but it has never failed me. It is also easy to get undone without making another knot out of itself.

The Secure variant seems to be a slightly easier/quicker knot. I might give it a try. :)

So are your guides, by the way. Thank you for writing them.

I use the fast normal knot for shoes I am going to tie/untie a lot and the secure knot for everything else.

Quirky or whimsical content has always been welcome on HN.