Can you put too many ties in a quilt? I'm making a baby quilt and it has orange in it so i'm tying it off with orange yarn. I haven't tied one before and i was told i was going overboard. I need your input. ty

How big are your blocks?

It does look like a lot of ties, but with it being a baby quilt, I think a lot of ties would be helpful.

Prob. what I would do though is cut them off shorter so there is "less" visualization of the ties. Shorter ties tend to blend in more.

Just my 2 cents worth...HTH.

ty Loretta, i think they are 12 1/2 "

I think it does seem like alot of ties. It is a little distracting from the rest of the quilt. I would try Loretta's suggestion of cutting them shorter.

The batting quilting distance will tell you how far apart to tie your quilt (it's the same). Ditto on cutting the ends shorter...way too long for baby to suck on and swallow.

Yep, give it a little hair cut so you focus more on the quilt. :D

I did a tie quilt for my daughter with that same teddy bear material when she was 2 or three. She's now twelve and still loves it. Thanks for reminding me of the memory.

Trim the ties just a bit. The ties will curl and ball up on themselves when you wash it and won't stand out so much. The quilt is really cute! Good job! :)

ty Kaye

ty i will do that

aaawwww how sweet ty for your comment

ty marsye

ty ghost

a lady i know who ties quilts all the time told me to use your hand as a guide, your ties should be (1) hand's width apart.
i think it really depends on the batting you used though, if the batting can be quilted 4-12" apart a hand's width would be fine, but if you use batting that has to be quilted every 2" you need them much closer together. i was always afraid to 'tie' baby quilts, afraid they would manage to 'un-tie' one or chew on it and choke, so i only quilt baby quilts, but i know lots of people tie them, just me being ''' over-paranoid'''
cute quilt

ty I also thought about the choking
but i think i tied them tight enough to hold while they knot up

I've never tied a quilt but yours is really cute.

Rather than take them out----DON'T DO IT, IT WILL LEAVE HOLES----trim them off a little and they won't look like too much. There's really no need to have them more than 5 to 6 inches apart. However, it's your first one and babies love to play with the ties. I usually trim mine to about 3/4 of an inch. That's not to say that you have to, you can make yours about 1/2" if that's what you want. My mother always said to tie each tie three times to keep them from untying. pull them tight too.

I tie mine at the corners of each block, trim to 1/4 inch. Hides the unmatched joins!LOL

Yep, too many. It could cause the child to play and play with the quilt until they get some threads in their wee hands and then into the mouth.

Tie at center of block and at corners where the blocks meet. Trim to 1/2 " or so. I use a square knot.

As far as removing the extras, I would and then take the tip of your seam ripper (careful here) or a blunt needle (better) and carefully 'rake' over the hole to close the threads together.

That is a cute quilt. I think you need to trim the ties and then they will be OK. I don't think you needed to tie so many but it will be OK for this quilt.

Cute quilt, but I don't tie baby quilts.

Depends on the look you are going for, as well as the quilting/tying requirements from the batting you are using.

I think cutting the ties off a little closer will help accentuate the quilt, too :D:D:D

Ditto!!

I would do a three tie knot -

left over right
right over left
left over right

I know - I do have a touch of OCD

I would have tied it to the back instead of the front. That way it wouldn't have taken away from the front of the quilt.

The next time you tie a quilt you might try knotting the ties on the back so that ties don't interfere with the cute prints. Very cute quilt.

When I do a tied quilt, I don't use yarn ties, I do a whip stitch in a matching thread color, so it doesn't show. The quilt stays together as intended. I just don't prefer the look of tied quilts, although I do very much appreciate the amount of time spent on tying vs. quilting the quilts!

The first quilt I've tied was way overdone - I whip stitched in each cornerstone, and then sewed a 1/4" pink ribbon, tied it in a bow, then secured the bow so it wouldn't come undone. 81 of these things appeared on this quilt. It was a full sized quilt with 6" blocks. It turned out great, my 4 yr old niece loved it, and I don't ever want to do another one like it again!