Whatever you choose to make, it will be a cherished keepsake. My father-in-law wore the ugliest ties you can imagine, including one with a hula girl and one with a pheasant on it. From the day we first met, I always gave him a bad time about them, but he persisted in wearing them, even when we would buy him beautiful new ones. The first Christmas after he he passed away, my mother-in-law made a beautiful hand stitched crazy quilt pillow for me and one for my sister-in-law. She had cut all the ties in half so that one of us would receive the wide end or the narrow end from each tie. In the center of my pillow was the wide end with the hula girl and the narrow end with that awful pheasant!! That was 50 years ago, and that beautifully stitched pillow still fills my heart with love and my eyes with tears.