Paul decided the day before the event that he would come with me after all.
Thankfully I managed to get him a ticket, and I had just enough striped fabric left over to make him a tie to match my outfit.
The diagonal stripe is because I didn’t have a big enough scrap of fabric to make the front of the tie in one piece, so I had to make a join. The stripes didn’t quite match up as precisely as I’d have liked, so I ran a piece of leftover braid across the seam.
Not bad for a last minute dash and a few bits of leftovers!