cactusbasket It Was Suppose To Be A Skirt - Some time in the early 1970’s my husband saw a women wearing a skirt made entirely of neckties. The narrow end was at the waist and the wider kite shaped end was the hem. He thought that was very clever and cool. For the next 30 years when he was at a rummage sale he would buy neckties so I could make this skirt. He kept them in a brown paper bag which followed us around on our various moves and now and then would ask me when I was going to make that skirt. I didn't want a necktie skirt. So I told him I would make a quilt out of the neckties he had collected. I learned that neckties are made on a bias and they slide around when sewing them because of this they are Crazy Log Cabin blocks. Also, they looked terrible next to one another and needed nice solid blocks of color to set them. It has lots of errors, chopped off points, the logs don't match up and the necktie material puffs up, but it very cuddly and lives on our sofa.