PHOTO UPDATE Silk Neckties for Crafting or Wearing: The Destiny of Things, Story 580
The "after" photo is truly amazing! BEFORE:
BACK STORY on these silk neckties:
I'm selling these for less than a dollar each, right now they are about 50 cents each, because a couple decades ago my Quilter Mom made a hand paper pieced quilt (photos of it below) and earlier this year asked if I wanted the leftover ties. Even though I'm a recovering hoarder, I said, "YES!" And little did I know she sent me 10 or 20 pound box crammed full of all silk neckties. Well, at least, the first 25 I've rummaged through were silk, although some are not labeled.
I remember when my mom first started that quilt, she was using my Dad's silk ties and eventually the rest of our family gave her other silk ties and soon friends did and later on tons of people, even my Dad's customers and my mom's quilter friends and then her Quilt Guild were giving her silk ties. In the end, she had a great amount to choose from. My Mom is a purest when it comes to quilting, I'm pretty sure she would throw out all the polyester or blended ties.
There are so many silk ties that it's quite overwhelming. I think there's a life time supply of ties in there for many people! I picked through the top of maybe 2 inches of the box and saved 3 for my own crafting needs and the rest I'm just listing for other creative souls.
Well, someone bought them to wear and it's quite impressive how he combined them to look so good! Like GQ good, if you ask me!
Here is his note and photo:
Thank you so much the five handsome looking ties! The shipping was quick
and packaged and wrapped so nicely! To show my appreciation, i have
enclosed a photo of me wearing one of the ties! Thank you so much, take
care and continue to stay safe!
AFTER:
Mr GQ in his Serica silk necktie! Photo via Etsy buyer! Thank you!
There are so many creative souls out there! I would have never thought that brown tie would look so good with a navy shirt! And in another email, he said he was going to wear all them! I certainly would love to see how he matches them all up with which shirt and how it will look! I can't even imagine! As you can tell I am not a matching clothing diva!
Saying Goodbye: Luckily there are so many pounds of these silk neckties that there is no way I can use them all. I've asked all my friends and none of them want any... for crafting or for wearing, so I'll be listing 5 at a time at each shop until they are all gone! That might take years, but it's worth a try! I'm hoping to retire from Etsy in two more years, actually it's now 19 months and counting and then move on to something else or just keep one shop.
4 all silk ties for crafting, you will receive all 5 but the first one isn't labeled silk, the rest are. I guess I should take a photo of the fronts, will do that this weekend, available
here.
What I Learned:
1. There are creative souls everywhere! Not just crafting ones but wearing ones! I call these silk neckties, "crafting starter kits," for Easter eggs, rugs, origami butterfly brooches and more! You can see all the crafting ideas in the listing! There are tons, but I just added my favorites to the other photos. If people want to wear them, then even better! Nothing like eco friendly recycling at it's best!
2. I would like to try the Easter egg silk necktie transfer, I've read the directions and they look and sound easy! And they look eggsceptional and unique! I wonder if they'd still work with blown out eggs to make into ornaments, since everyone is into Easter tress now! Next year!
How beautiful are these beauties? Eggaxctly eggcellent, right?
3. The weather here in Southern California is acting really weird and I'm thankful for it! It's still gloomy a lot, been that way since April, but I guess it's normal for June gloom. At least I don't have to water the garden as often or as much. Growing edibles this year, the soil here is really bad, very clay and rocky, but we've been composting for years, so hopefully it will be enough to eat good stuffs!
What's your favorite summer past times? This year mine are stitching, gardening and critter watching! We have families of critters in our backyard, although the skunks and raccoons have left, the squirrel, possum, feral cats and all kinds of birds have stayed. Which reminds me I need to plant more blooming flowers, so I can butterfly and bee watch too!
Here is a photo of my Quilter Mom's hand paper pieced silk necktie quilt. It used to be her most impressive quilt, until she made a mathematical infinity boro quilt. I'm so thankful my mom made me a quilt similar to this one, it's all hand paper pieced too, with all our families clothes, curtains, aprons, childhood sheets, like our favorite Snoopy sheets, childhood clothes from baby to teens, etc. Every time I look at it, there are so many good memories, especially my Grandmother's dresses and for this Father's day remembrances through my Dad's work shirts! There are closeups of it on the silk necktie craft starter kit,
here.
Thank
you Etsy
buyer for sharing your impressive GQ style and photo story! It has motivated me to list
more silk necktie bundles on all the shops! I
wish I could be a fly on the wall and see
all your necktie combinations with shirts, maybe I'd learn how to do it myself! Thanks again for the motivation and thoughtfulness.
Sales
crazy on the weekends and very slow on the week days! I
power listed again this week and now I'm done with new listing too! On to day dreaming! And going through my new books! I have Studio by Sally Coulthard and The Foraging Home. Hope they inspire me to stop hoaring and to clean and organize instead!
Click on the shop names to visit my hoard: HoarderRehab with 169 items, The Destiny of Things- 158 items, VintageToGoEasy - 164 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 162
items. And now, Mending Ways with 77 items! My new goal is to list 170 items on each shop and to keep 70 on Mending Ways. I am immensely grateful, thank you all who are
supporting
my alternative to hoarding! I don't know what happened to the alignment up there, I've tried to fix it several times, but no go!
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! All pleasant lookieloos are appreciated!
Love the necktie rug, looks easy too and could be a quilt too!
Photo via google.
"Whatever you are be a good one"--- Abraham Lincoln
