Tieing up time with ties

Take a note, this is not a canto.  I plan to post my latest projects, eventually steampunk, doctor who, and all the goodness will be up here.  For right now though, I am working on a tie made of skirts.  Now normally people tie the sides together, and that's all good and well, but it feels there's so much more to be done with the idea.  So for fun, i am making a skirt (not for myself of course) to mimic a Knife pleat by overlaping ties and making a skirt out of them.  The overlap will also allow for discrete zipper location and hidden pockets(maybe with zippers?).

In order to demonstrate what this process will begin to look like, I have bought a few cheap ties to sew together, in order to make a small mock up.

This process should be relatively simple and provide a cute garment, but the main problem will be finding bulk ties of the same material and colour.  At the moment I'm looking into Chinese wholesaler who sell bulk of 50 ties.

And then it hit me!

I realized half way through this project I was doing what I warn against: Making something and not knowing anything of the application and nuances of application. I decided I would make the skirt what i thought best, the skirt will fall, so as to appear as a regular skirt but be shorter, by nature of the ties not being sewn all the way down.

Estimated build materials:
30-40 ties of the same colour and texture 
1 yard of lining
1/2 yard of pocket material

Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions! 


Many thanks to Amy Fortenberry and Melanie Harris for putting up with my pestering and being such great teachers of tailoring and sewing.