Help me Obi One

I'm going to flaunt my ignorance here, only because I think it's kind of funny, and maybe you will too, or maybe you'll just groan and cover your eyes, which I did a lot of too. The other night I got my first lesson in obi tying, and I was practicing it again last night because I'm going to be wearing a new kind of costume for the school show, and will have to put it on and tie it myself--probably in a hurry. And I hate tying things in a hurry, and have only recently gotten the tie-the-hachimaki-in-a-hurry thing down (my secret: be sure to get a hair cut before a performance!) But I must have been at it for like an hour before I got it to look decent. And before it started to even look decent, it looked like this (sorry so blurry--it's hard to take a pic of yourself!):


I think it looks like some hideous clown bowtie! Awful! Wrinkly! Sloppy! You better watch out and make sure water doesn't squirt out of that thing. I had a friend looking for obi tying tips on the internet, and I was trying to watch videos of other people's obi, but I figured I just needed to practice. My neck was aching from peering down so much and I was starting to get sweaty, but after fussing with length and figuring out the knotting, I think I finally got something that looked ok. Some people can get the knot to be perfectly square, but I couldn't figure out how they'd do that. Any suggestions? I'll practice again tonight, and if I get the obi on and Janet doesn't laugh at me like she did the other night, I'll count it as a success.