Self-striping-sock yarn can be used for so much more than your feet. Although any sock yarn will work for this pattern, the stripes look fantastic when built up on the diagonal. The pattern is easily customizable by length or by width and can be made to fit any level of fanciness.

The project starts at the bottom corner and knits up on a diagonal, so that the self-striping sock yarn creates these awesome diagonal stripes that get slightly wider as the tie grows. The pattern is accompanied by a few detailed photographs explaining the finishing process and some tips on general construction.

A good tie-tying tutorial can be found here: http://www.tiefighter.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/half...