How to Sew Neckties With Your Kids

With our fast paced lives, it is always important that we spend enough time with our kids. Your time together can be spent creatively which would allow your kids to explore their creativity and take it to different heights. There are a lot of crafts that you can do with your kids including sewing a simple necktie.

Sewing simple neckties with your kids can be a very fun activity that does not require too much effort. After you're done with your project, you can give it to dad for father's day or to grandpa for his birthday.
Here's how to do it:

1. The first thing that you have to do is to gather all the materials that you need. For your necktie, you need silk or polyester fabric, stiff paper or poster board for your pattern (if you would use one), scissors, ruler, sewing machine, and, of course, threads. You can let your kids choose the fabric that they want. It can have loud designs in very loud colors but let them-they're kids, in the first place. You can borrow one of dad's necktie as a pattern to help you achieve your desired look.

2. When drawing a pattern, you need four pattern pieces. Ask your one of your kids to draw a like in your board that is 30 inches. Measure five inches from the first line, and then again draw another line that is 25 inches long. Obviously, the lines should angle out because neckties grew wider towards the bottom. Connect both lines at the top by drawing an angled line. Draw a triangle at the bottom and voila! Your pattern is just like dad's tie-only slightly bigger.

3. For the back of your tie, you need to follow the same pattern although this time, do not angle the lines and draw them a little shorter. The two final pieces of your tie-pattern are the tip of tie and the end of the back. The front triangle piece should be at least 7.5 inches tall and the back should be 6 inches tall.

4. Cut the fabric and this is something that you have to do yourself instead of your kids. Put the pattern on top of the fabric and cut it accordingly. Pin the tops of the two long pieces together while making sure that the right sides of the tie face each other. Sew the seams and you can even have your kids do it because these features only short and straight seams.

5. After doing so, you need to connect the two triangles at the foot of the front of the tie with the tip of the back of the tie. Here, the right sides should also face each other. You need to sew the edges together, and turn the triangles. The right side should be now visible.

6. To finish off, fold your tie halfway (in the long way). Again, sew along the edge but leave at least an inch unsewn so you can turn the tie inside out.

7. After turning it inside out, your necktie is now finished and ready for wrapping.

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