As you know, if you watched the Dr. Who Christmas special, “Bow ties are cool”. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine exactly what that means for the rest of us when spoken by the temporally peripatetic Doctor. (“Bow ties were cool?”, “Bow ties are cool?”, “Bow ties will be cool?”, “Bow ties will have been cool?”)
I’m simply taking it as an act of faith that the Doctor is, was, or will be right. …so I’ve put some Mozilla-centric bow tie designs into the Creative Collective.
They are designed to be printed on “Super-B” (13-inch by 19-inch) media. If you print to iron-on transfer paper be sure to do an image flip before you print.
Of late, I have been using an Epson R1900 to print directly on high thread-count (“down-proof”) bleached muslin that I spray glued to heavyweight photo paper. It’s a scary process that has the potential to destroy the printer if things go awry, so I can’t recommend it for the faint of heart.
To assemble the tie, cut it out all four pieces along the lines. Take two pieces and sew the edges together with the printed sides facing each other. Take a chopstick or similar tool and push one corner of the tie through the narrow tube so the printed sides are on the outside. Iron it flat.
When you’ve sewn both halves, you can either sew the them together (assuming you know the proper length for your neck size), or use a small safety pin to make the tie “adjustable”.
Hope to see more bow ties on Mozilla’s Fancy Fridays!
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Copyright © 2008-2012 Richard A. Milewski
Bow ties are cool, and yours are even cooler. Thanks for sharing your method and designs.
Perhaps I missed it, but how does one download a high quality file of the given design from the collective?
The Creative Collective has a few non-obvious features. If you’re logged-in, a “View Full Size” button will show below the image. There’s a “Download This” button at the top of the full size image page. If you don’t have a log-in, click “Join Us” at the top of the page.