A Tie quilt?

 well maybe sort of. Potentially. I once saw a quilt which incorporated ties and I rather liked it. It might have stayed at yet another pretty image (and goodness knows it still may not progress that much) but my local hospice shop Alice House Hospice had some new ties. One Hundred percent silk and £1 for three.

I bought ties.

And they sat and waited. And waited some more and more and eventually I got around to unpicking them.

I expected this to result in removing a stiff inner that I would discard, I have had to fix one of my fathers favourite ties where the stiffener separated in the middle and whilst fix it I did that stuff was not something I could foresee me doing anything with.

The unpicking went faster than I expected, remove the label, snip holding stitches at each end and then the wiped stitched thread came out nice and easy. Perhaps too easy, yes I have wound the thread round a bobbin and it will get used at some point on a something. Shades of brown, grey and black I have some thread.

I thought once unpicked they would take up less room.

That might have been true if I could bring myself to throw away the inner tie stuff. Problem is it is nice "stuff" and usable and do something with and nope can't throw it away.

So now rather than less it is more, the space these component parts, for quilt (and, hmm stiffening in a bag handle, oh or bags. I am sure I will think of some thing, several somethings) manages to take up more space that the ties did in the first place. 

And the tie quilt, well I still have to do some figuring out there, as I saw only a picture, no pattern no instructions I an just going to have to make it up as I go along.