A specialty
Necktie Quilts
Necktie quilts honor a lifetime of looking your best. Sundays at church, anniversaries at the table, weddings, retirements, the everyday choosing of how to show up. We piece them into a quilt that holds the whole story.
Recent work
Necktie quilts from the workroom.
A handful of recently finished necktie commissions. Click any photograph for the story and additional views.
An everyday transformation
Go from stuffy to comfy.
There's a kind of joy in taking the stiffest, fussiest thing a man wears all his life and turning it into the softest thing on the couch. A retirement, an anniversary, a lifetime of looking his best, quilted into something he can finally relax under.
A retirement
Three decades of mornings in front of the mirror, getting dressed for work. Now those ties drape over the recliner where he finally gets to wear whatever he wants.
An anniversary
Forty years of weddings, holidays, Sundays. The ties he wore to every occasion that mattered, made into something the two of you can share on the couch.
A father's lifetime
His ties were stiff. The quilt they become is soft. Children and grandchildren get to hold the man, not the costume.
Most popular
The Westerfield.
The Westerfield pattern, a 60×60 quilt of 25+ ties laid in a sunburst, is one of Kathy's most-requested layouts. Every necktie quilt is its own project. The count, the fabrics, the pattern, the meaning behind the ties.