Infinity Scarf Tutorial

Hello, happy monday everyone:)

Today I want to share how to make my favorite scarf.   I'm very petite so  those real long scarves tend to swallow me up, so I make my scarves kinda short so I can just wrap them around once and they sit high on my chest.

I'll be honest each time I've made this, I had to do it over two times because it just takes me a minute for it to make sense and then voila!  my scarf is done :)   It has only taken me about 20 minutes or so even after redoing twice.

I bought 1 yard of fabric at Joanns  from the sale rack, still cost me $9.00, .  but  I only needed  1/3 of it to make this.....so I will have some leftover for something else. I guess we'll see about that some other time.

So I layed out my fabric and folded over the longer end so it would be  57 inches long and about 9 inches wide.   you can make it whatever size you want, but this works for me.

 and pinned it along the edge where I would cut it.  Because of the lines in  the fabric it was easy to get it even.   Then I pinned it like crazy so it wouldn't move.  Those lines had to stay lined up or my scarf would look ridiculous.

then I cut along the edge where the pins are, so I only had to sew one side seam.

and then it looked like this:

then folding it so right sides are together you sew a seam right along the raw edge leaving about 2 inches open at each end, It's  very important that you leave this because this is where you will sew the ends together to make it a full circle.

(I used a serger on my seam, but you can just sew it with a regular machine with a 1/4 inch seam allowance....   that would work fine too)

Now you should have a tube with both ends open.

 now turn the fabric so right sides are out

Now this is the tricky part.... the part that I usually have to do twice.   I hope you get it on the first try.

Start your seam at the point shown below....   (the inside corners of each end.)

 

and sew to the end.  Start out slow because at this point you are kinda sewing in a circle.

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then when you are finished you should have your tube with an opening on the side 

that I just fold under and hand sew closed with a whip stitch

and you are done!

This is my finished scarf:

I also made this scarf out of stretchy knit and I love this one too.
when I wear it I sometimes add the red fabric flower.

If you have any questions or something doesn't make sense.... just let me know and I'll do my best to explain.

 Have a great day!!

Debby