I've been making a few infinity scarves lately, but it only just this morning occurred to me to post about them. So, I actually made a cooler one than normal to show you. It has stripes.
For those of you who don't know, infinity scarves are just circular tube scarves, but they're super comfy, and infinitely easier to work with than normal ones.
Note: it's important that you choose comfy fabrics for this. Remember that anything you make this out of will be right up on you neck, and near you face, so be conscious of that when you go to make a super chunky, heavy scarf in the middle of summer.
This scarf was actually made from the scraps of the fabric left over from a quilt I made almost a year ago.
After laying it out, I found that I didn't have enough to make a double-sided scarf like I wanted to at first, but I had three colors, all of which I like, so I improvised.
I had the right length of purple, and half the length of green and patterned, both the right width-
As you can see...
So I cut them all in half. Now, I had enough fabric to make a scarf length-wise, if I sewed the pieces together long ways, but how to make it work?
the important thing with scarves (or, at least, this kind of scarf) is that the ends have to be the same width. Otherwise it won't work very well.
So even them out. Even if it means you have to re-cut the pieces.
Like I said, I sewed the green and patterned pieces together to make one piece, twice as long.
I then started attaching the pieces together. Having two strips of purple, but only one of patterned and one of green, I decided to stripe it.
Make sure you sew the pieces with right sides together, so it ends up looking like this between each strip. For the green piece, it had now 'right' side, but I had given it one when I sewed the pieces together- the seam needs to be on the outside.
Again, check how it looks between each strip you sew on.
This is what it looked like when the strips were all sewed together.
Like I said, infinity scarves are tubular. So, to make a tube of the fabric, you sew the two ends together. Again, make sure right sides are together.
At this point, you should have a tube of inside-out fabric. So, reverse it so that the outside shows.
No pics of that, since I think it's pretty easy to figure out.
Not comes the trickiest part of the whole project- finishing the tube. This mostly comes down to practice, but essentially, you're sewing the tube closed- inside out.
To do this, you get the two ends of the scarf, put them right sides together, and sew. At first this will be easy, but you will be sewing yourself into a corner, figuratively speaking. Just keep sewing until you can't anymore, then take it out of the machine. The result will be an almost completely sewed tube, with a tiny (hopefully) opening that you then need to stitch closed somehow.
I've heard there are two ways to do this- hand stitch it, so it looks like it was all done from the inside, or just top stitch it. Because my holes are usually only an inch or two across, I always opt for top stitching it with the machine, and just keep that part behind my hair.
As you can see, it's pretty easy to hide that part. And, honestly, I usually keep the seam behind my hair anyway, because it looks better that way.
That's what I top stitched. Looks amazing, I know. Good thing no one will ever see it.
And there we go! An awesome, tricolor scarf.
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