Tied Down

Long ago on StumbleUpon, I found a tutorial on how to turn a bunch of old ties into a woven seat cover. I saved it in the back of my mind as a great idea of how to re-make an old chair and when I got home this summer, I saw a seat-less chair in my grandma's basement and my mom mentioned a bunch of my grandpa's ties lying around the house. Less than half an hour later, I had a functional and beautiful chair to always remember my grandpa by.

First I had to cut the broken rattan out of the seat. Then I had a seatless chair. Useful for a Kyrgyz squat toilet but for not much else.

However, after adding a few ties, I was well on my way to having something functional again! I laid the ties out this way, always alternating which side of the chair the fat side of the tie was on.

Then I wove ties in the other direction (over, under, over, under, etc.) and knotted them all haphazardly on the bottom. You could trim them underneath so they don't hang down, but I left them just in case I ever want to take the ties off and use them again for some other fun project.

And that's it! Here is the finished chair, ready to be sat upon.

Scarves of the Past

I am back in Connecticut and found a box of various scarves (and one bag) that I've made over the years. Some of these also appear in my very first post, but you can just see them again :)
Here are pictures!

 Some close-up views:

 And to change things up, a bag I made:

So many of the scarves have never been worn, so I'm going to donate a bunch to charity. Hopefully they'll keep someone fortunate very warm this winter :)