Bow ties - A Southern Tradition

I love bow ties! Recently I made two kinds of bow ties. One traditional for my son to wear and one in the form of a quilt.  Today we celebrated Easter. When I was assembling his Easter outfit I knew we were missing something. He needed a bow tie to complete the outfit.  I looked high and low for one. I wanted a green one with blue and white polka dots on the reverse side.  When I didn't find one, I decided to make one. It turned out to be easy to make and it looked so cute on my little man. I might make one for every occasion now. Maybe it was the model that made it or maybe it was the tie that made the model.

My second bow tie was in the form of a quilt. As we wind down the school year, I have begun to make preparations for teacher appreciation gifts. My little man has two very special teachers. One of which is retiring this year after many, many years of teaching. As a gift from us I decided to make bow tie pattern with Avalon - Fig Tree and Co. It turned out to be beautiful!

I love the traditional patterns and the soft colors in the quilt. I used a cream colored linen as a background and added soft prints for a border. I love the way the quilt looks so soft and warm. It came together really easy. I used a layer cake and used all of it.  There were but inches of scraps left.

Graduation is May 16 and there may be two bow ties on display that day.

Riff Ram... Who's ready for football?

I finally completed a project I had been working on for a while. It wasn't a difficult one, but one that I wasn't sure would turn out the way I expected it to, so I procrastinated.I think it took me about 6 months to make and that was five months, and 29 days too long. But it is finished none-the-less. Since his birth I have been saving t-shirts from my little man's wardrobe. I pulled out between 10 and 13 shirts that were purple, white and gray. I cut them all the same width but in different lengths. I used TCU shirts with logos and shirts with stripes and other prints.  I laid them all out to make one single strip.

In total I had between 13 an 14 blocks to make up a single row. I sewed them together in a single row and sewed the rows together to make a tube. I turned it right side out, pressed it, zipped the ends and ta-da - I am done.

I had myself a cute football game scarf. If only I was a TCU die hard. Luckily for me though - my mom is. I couldn't wait to give it to her! I delivered it this week and she fell in love with it. Not only was it her "team," but most of the logoed shirts were shirts that she had purchased for my son throughout the years. It was a nice reminder of his younger years.

We are still a few months from football season and even further from cold football weather, but it is done. I turned out so cute, I might even make one for myself using red and black shirts as an alternative. We have ample of those as well.

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