Thursday, December 16, 2010

Skinny Infinity Scarf


(wrapped 4 times)

(wrapped 3 times)
)wrapped twice)


This is why I haven't been around for a couple of days. I decided on Monday to make a last minute present for my Mother-in-law's birthday, which is today. So I've spent every spare minute (and let's face it there aren't many at this time of year), working on this.
I've seen a lot of circular scarves out there at the moment, and I Love them. They are such an obvious, clever idea, and ridiculously easy to make, you just make a normal scarf and sew the ends together!
I decided to make mine a skinny scarf, for 3 reasons
1) it wouldn't take much yarn so wound be cheap
2) it would knit up quickly
3 I haven't seen one before.

The yarn I used is ridiculously cheap, from the original factory shop and was £2 for three 50g balls. It's lovely and soft, but not the easiest yarn to knit with, the fluffiness makes it easy to miss the main body of the stitch and if you drop a stitch you've no chance of picking it up, you just can't see it.

A couple of times I had to pull the scarf back to find a row with the right number of stitches after losing one. I used just under three balls and stopped when the scarf was about 100 inches long. I only had 17 stitches per row.

I'm really pleased with the finished result, but the photos are awful, sorry.

9 comments:

  1. Fabulous idea, Joanne. Love the colour of the yarn.

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  2. absolutely love it Joanne - have been dying to make one (not so good at the knitting though) but you have inspired me now - love this.

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  3. Fab project, looks just great

    Kathyk

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  4. Hi Joanne...I just received one of these scarves on Sunday from my cousin for Christmas this year and I love it! I have worn it everyday since. Yours is a beautiful color and I hope she likes it :)

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  5. And if MiL fancies a spot of skipping to keep warm it also twins up as a skipping rope!

    Fabulous. My kind of colour. LOVE green.

    Btw, you are looking rather svelt and trim!

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  6. wow Joanne - same as Jo - you do look very trim (not that you were ever large lol!0 fab scarf. love the colours and the number of different ways you can wear (and skip) in it.

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  7. I agree with you these make great presents. I made a few of these for family a couple of years ago. Great colour choice. Annette x

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  8. Awesome scarf! It's so stylish! Love it!

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  9. Would love to know how you made this if you are happy to share the pattern. It is some kind of boucle wool, I take it?

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