The unstructured ties traveled back to Pennsylvania where they were carefully pressed, lightly interfaced, cut into 1-1/4″ strips and hung onto my old quilting frame. What a great use for this! Lots of repurposing going on in this project. Actually, it’s sort of fun seeing them hanging freely relaxed in strips, rather like a special decoration in the room. Sewing them into their patterns soon somehow seems to be tieing them down. Is that a pun? Anyway, tip here is to treat them very carefully because they are fragile due to being narrow strips and they are bias which can cause stretching. Different fiber contents make pressing and interfacing variable since the heat setting varies slightly. At this point now, just like a freshman heading off to college, they may find many new paths that they can travel. Instead of being a Doctor, Lawyer, Nurse, Teacher, like the college student, these little eager strips will become part of a log cabin block, a pineapple block, piping, borders or even binding.