This suggestion comes after seeing a friend struggle with a "memory tie" project she did just a few weeks ago. She is an expert quilter and a longarmer. One of her customers brought a pile of ties and a pattern from Pintrest to her and she proceeded to carefully take the ties apart and start the quilt. "YIKES", she cried! After about 6 or 7 ties, she reread the pattern and found that because of the items being cut on the bias and of soft slippery fabric the directions said, "Do not disassemble the ties!" She put them back together and the project turned out just fine. A weird pattern, I must say, but it was what the customer wanted. My hint is to read the directions of any pattern carefully but more importantly DON'T take the ties apart! Tee-Hee-Hee!