Burda Style For people who sew

Description

I decided to make a dear friend a bow tie for his 21st birthday, so he can do his best Chuck Bass impersonation. Based on the free David bow tie pattern here on burda style.

Just a note that if you’re using dupion silk like I did, i found if i clipped close to the straight stitch then turned it out the seams often frayed because of the point of my knitting needle was pushing through them. I tried to remedy bu this by using a smaller stitch, and when that didn’t work, decided to use the stretch seaming stitch on my machine (a double straight stitch with a zigzag, any overlocking stitch would work too I think)

Read more about it here: http://thesilkfutures.blogspot.com/2010/03/all-dressed-up-handmade-21st-gift.html

Material Notes

I used mint green dupion silk, this lovely friend looks great in pastels (so basically the world is his oyster, no?)

Categories

For

Men

Garment Type

Accessories

Style

Classic, Evening Wear, Preppy

Material

Silk