Need Some Old Silk Neckties?
My husband has tidied his closet (thank you, Santa!!!) and I have eight silk neckties to give away to someone who is collecting them for a future necktie quilt. These neckties are in excellent condition, clean (no food stains) and are of recent production (not vintage). I'll put them in a U.S. Priority Mail flat rate envelope and send them to you and ask only for reimbursement for the postage ($4.60). Obviously, USA residents only and first come, first serve.
Send your snail mail address in an email to jacknox at earthlink dot net substituting the @ sign for the word "at" and the . for the word "dot" as needed. I have a spamblocker but if you put Silk Neckties or some such wording in your subject line I will find your email.
I made a necktie quilt once and it was an interesting thing to do but once was enough. I made mine in a brick wall pattern and used black sateen cotton as the "mortar" in the brick wall .... it turned out rather handsome, even if I do say so myself. LOL
Judy
Send your snail mail address in an email to jacknox at earthlink dot net substituting the @ sign for the word "at" and the . for the word "dot" as needed. I have a spamblocker but if you put Silk Neckties or some such wording in your subject line I will find your email.
I made a necktie quilt once and it was an interesting thing to do but once was enough. I made mine in a brick wall pattern and used black sateen cotton as the "mortar" in the brick wall .... it turned out rather handsome, even if I do say so myself. LOL
Judy
4 Comments:
At December 28, 2007 at 10:21 AM , Laura in Alabama said...
I think you'll find that the cost of Priority Mail has gone up to about $9.60. You might want to drop back to First Class...
At December 28, 2007 at 1:33 PM , Judy in Ohio said...
Laura, if you go to to the USPS website at http://www.usps.com/prices/welcome.htm you will see that the Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope (which you can stuff to bursting) goes for $4.60 ... the Flat Rate box costs more.
Judy
At December 29, 2007 at 9:24 PM , Linda in AZ said...
Any chance you could post a picture of your necktie quilt?
Also what would be the 2-3 best tips you could give someone who wanted to make one?
I have a large collection of my late father's ties that I would like to make a quilt out of and yours sounds interesting.
Thanks
Linda in sunny AZ where the golfing is great
At December 29, 2007 at 10:54 PM , Judy in Ohio said...
Neckties are cut on the bias and then chainstitched so they are easy to take apart once you find the correct end to "unzip". I got a 3" x 6" straight of grain rectangle of useful fabric out of each necktie that I made into a "brick" for the running bond pattern I chose to use. (Just a normal brick wall.) I saved some of the lah-de-dah labels I came across and sewed those to the plain fabrics .... Christian Dior, Oscar de la Renta, etc. ... because I scrounged neckties at garage sales, etc. I backed the silk fabrics with fusible interfacing before I cut out each rectangle to stabilize the slithery silks. This quilt is backed with flannel so it stays on my Dad's lap. I made it in 1980, long before I had a digital camera ...
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