Woven Ties- Part 2

As promised, here is the second part of the *woven ties* post started last week. I will tell you how to make all of the patterns shown here, but first I need to show the technique for weaving a double biased square.First lay out your orange strip on the bias (45 degree angle). You will want to tear your strips at about 14″. Make sure you are covering a full 8″ width. The strips will sort of “stair step” their way up the mat. Cut the strips into half strips.Next, lay a half strip of green square to the orange at the point where the tie measures 8″ wide. There will be several inches of orange that will have to be trimmed off at the end.Now just weave all of the way up the tie as normal. (see *how to make a basic half-strip checkerboard* if you haven’t already!) If you use a 36″ mat, the tie will be a tad short for an adult tie unless you add about 12″ on the end. It worked great for me though as a boy’s tie. Now all you have to do is cut and fold the tie the same way as in the last post on*woven ties*.

Add scraps to your duck-o ball, put on your nicest dress shirt, and you are done!

And now, a few variations on the the theme:Three-color double biased square. Lay out strips in the same order both directions.

I had to show you this one even though it is wrinkled so you could see the pattern and maybe cry for me. A classic example of over-thinking things, but lets keep going.

Four-color, quarter-strip, double-square biased. This one takes some time!

Three-colored single biased diamond.