Cute Braided Infinity Scarf Tutorial

WE have a tutorial that is forty thrillionty times easier and better than ourprevious (ahem, first ever...give me some grace!) tutorial.

The scarf is essentially two big color blocked tubes of fabric "braided" together using square knots. But WE noticed the other tutorial attaches the different ends of each tube together by sewing straight across all the layers, thereby closing the tube and forcing it to be flat in the place where the two colors meet up, so you cant twist or rearrange it (imagine a paper towel roll that's been stapled in the middle).

Here's how!

What you need:

-2 long rectangles of fabric. WE use cotton and poly/cotton blend jersey knits which are more soft, but almost any fabric  you would want around your neck should work

-thread that is the same color as one of your fabrics

-hand-sewing needle (don't be scared!)


FABRIC OPTIONS:

1. Upcycling/Recycling: You can pull this project off for FREE by using a big t-shirt to create each rectangle (you're probably going to need a XL or larger. Of course: you can always take a few shirts' fabric and piece them together to get the dimensions we need.

cutting along the red dotted lines at the indicated measurements will create a 2-ply (front and back of the shirt) circley-loop that is 15" high and close to 60" around. you will cut one of the sides (if there was a side seam on the shirt, cut there to eliminate it) to get an open rectangle of fabric.

2. Buying Yardage

Another option for fabric is to just use yardage from a fabric store. Jersey knits off of a bolt are typically 58" wide. this means that your rectangle's long edge is accomplished by the width of the fabric straight from the bolt, so you only need to order/have cut around 18" of each color. Fabric.com has an awesome selection of jersey knits AND they have free returns, if you're like me and need to feel your fabric before committing!

WE try to stick with cotton or poly/cotton blend jersey, and this Robert Kaufman Laguna collection is excellent and comes in tons of colors, and works out to less than $10 per scarf.

So whatever you did to acquire/create/procure/piece together your approx 60x18" rectangles, you now have your two long rectangles (folded width-wise here because we’re dumb like that)

instructions:
STEP 1: fold each rectangle lengthwise (aka not like above), matching up the raw longest edge and keeping right sides together if you have a fabric that has a non-patterned side. Sew with a zig-zag stitch  or serge along the long side, backstitching at each end to anchor if sewing: Repeat for the other rectangle/fabric

STEP 2: reach your arm inside each rectangle and turn rightside-out. Don't press these seams because we are going for tubular not squashed, remember.  Gotta love a step that forbids ironing! The resultant two long tubes of fabric.

STEP 3: make your braid. it can be difficult to explain so WE have attached pictures of the process and a really quick video of me doing the knots

Now we are going to sew the tubes together for our completed scarf. here's how--

STEP 4: lay out your finished knot into an X shape. match up the top tails of the X (one from each side/color), bringing the raw circular ends together. you can add in a few twists on each individual tube before matching the ends up to give your finished scarf that twisty swirly look rather than just a straight loop

STEP 5: find the seams from when you created your tubes in STEP 1 and align them side by side:
Now since these are tubes, we are dealing with circles, so as you go, what was your 1 and 4 layers, start to come around to the middle and become your 2 and 3 layers that you are sewing. That's okay, keep going

the creativity is endless. so enjoy your own favorite guys!

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