Sidenote: You could easily turn this into a pin for a teacher's gift. 1. Cut the pipe cleaner in half and form an X. Wrap one stem around the center of the X twice, leaving a short length of the stem.

How important are inaccurate race results? Do you want to make it easy on the timing crew? Or is it more important to protect your expensive threads? Perhaps the thought of poking eight holes into a ...