Seems I've jumped aboard the Gift-Giving Train this spring. Which is fine with me, because it means finishing things, destashing and getting things out of my house.
This weekend's project was brought to you by my friend up the street whose husband retired recently. He emptied his closet of most things work-related, including a great many silk ties he'd been given by clients over the years. She showed up for coffee and cranberry pie one morning last month with a bagful.
People give me textiles. It's really not my fault I'm a fabric magnet.
I didn't have any great plan for them, other than to hope they didn't stay in my house for too long. I decided to make a pillow out of them and give it back.
(Not as good lighting. Color in the first picture is closer to actual.)
The ties are intact -- the layers of fabric, lining and interfacing gave them much-needed stability and a good surface to quilt through. They're Misty-fused to a 17" square piece of cotton and stitched in place. I should have kept the lining with the piping instead of taking that particular tie apart and using a single layer of silk, but it came out OK; I just don't think it's going to take a lot of wear and tear.
The pillow is surprisingly heavy. Some of those ties are mighty unattractive and I can understand why they weren't keepers -- I hope my friends will appreciate the humor with which the ties return to them.
1 comment:
I think your tie pillow is a great idea and an nice souvenir to have. Men seem to accumulate a lot of ties...good way to use them.
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