A knitted tie part 1

Here shows Leonard wearing a knitted tie. I saw some of these online and wanted to try it out. Its done in a seed stitch so I had some difficulties with with it:
1. My needles were sharp and would divide the yarn
2. My decreases didnt look smooth
3. Over the stitch didnt look perfect, I guess its just something I need to work on.

I'm trying a new tie this week, different stitch...different pattern. We will see how it goes!