One of my goals when making quilts is to use up the scraps. The goal with this quilt was to use up the scraps from my two previous navy blue necktie quilts – one with larger hexagons, and one with a personal design (photos in video). So this quilt has smaller pieces to use up the scraps. It is my first triangle necktie quilt using English paper piecing techniques. I make these quilts without glue to avoid creating the plastic trash associated with glue.

If you are new to making quilts from upcycled neckties, I teach how to prepare the neckties for quilting in a previous video – https://youtu.be/1PGm83c1B80 – this is one of my most popular videos.

Also, check out my second necktie quilt video at https://youtu.be/NWmIOu-Skok.

I would love to hear your experiences upcycling ties into quilts and hopefully this inspires you to use up the scraps. The triangles are 3 inch equilateral triangles – I just found a page on Google and printed it with the correct enlargement to get the size of triangle I wanted.