M's Easter Ties

For Easter last year, I waited almost until Easter to buy M a simple, cotton tie from one of the children's clothing places. The bonus was that it was on sale for about $5.00. I intended to do the same thing again this year, but the tie I wanted sold out before I had a chance to purchase it. So, after searching the internet, I found this easy, free, Little Man Tie pattern from Very Homemade (click "Read more" for a few things I did to save myself time and make this easy tie even easier). I was able to get enough material and velcro to make M three ties for a little over $6.00 because I happened upon a $.99 fat quarter sale! Here are two of the ties I made for him to choose from for Easter morning. I will post pictures of the third one (it's for a wedding we are going to) at another time.



Here are couple of suggestions and additions to the 2T to 5T Little Man Tie pattern from Very Homemade.

The pattern doesn't state this, but you can use a fat quarter for this tie. There is no need to buy fabric from the bolt unless you can't find a fabric you like in a fat quarter. I used the Pellon 906F Fusible Sheerweight Interfacing. This made my tie crisp, but not very stiff.

For Step 2, instead of pinning my pattern to the fabric, I cut my neck band from one of the smaller sides of the fat quarter. I ironed my interfacing to the wrong side of the main fabric so that it fit from corner to corner at an angle. Then, I placed my lining fabric under the main fabric making sure that my tie would be cut going across the fabric. Using my rotary cutter, I carefully cut the tie out of both the main fabric and lining fabric using the edges of the interfacing as my pattern. BE CAREFUL SO THAT YOUR CUTTING EDGE DOESN'T SLIP while doing this!

For Step 7, if you use a larger seam allowance than 1/4", I suggest you trim the seam allowance down to 1/4" or smaller at the skinny end of the tie and then iron it as shown. I didn't trim the skinny end for the monkey tie and it was difficult to turn right side out. I did this on the second tie and it was much easier to turn right side out.

The rest of the tutorial is very well explained and the pictures were really helpful when trying to tie the tie.

I'm not sure which tie M will pick on Easter morning, but I'm glad that I found this easy and quick pattern so that I could give him options. I hope that you find it helpful as well.