How to Make a Scarf With a Cord From a Knit Spool
Spool knitting, also called French knitting, is a method of knitting on a very small knitting loom -- one with four to eight pegs -- which produces a tube of knitting very much like an I-cord or shoestring. While there are many applications for a tube of knitted fabric, making a scarf out of spool knit cords is one of the simplest. You can make a ruffled, boa-type scarf or braid several strands together.
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Things You'll Need
- Yarn in several complementary or contrasting colors
- Knitting spool
- Embroidery needle
- Small crochet hook
- Scissors
Instructions
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Boa Scarf
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Choose two contrasting colors of yarn, such as red and blue, and purchase one skein of yarn in each color. Cut two six foot long strands from each one.
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Knit the remains of each skein into a tube on your spool, making one long tube in red and one in blue.
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Thread the six foot strand you cut off the red skein onto your embroidery needle and thread it through one end of your red tube. Pull most of the yarn through, leaving a two inch tail, and then pull the other end of the red strand back through the tube with the crochet hook to create a large loop on the far side of your red tube and both cut ends on the near side. Leave the needle on the loop on the far side and tie the two ends together in a knot.
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Hold the end with the knot down and make a small loop, about 2 inches long, to one side of it, bringing the tube of knitting back to touch against the end of the tube. Pass your needle with the strand loop through the center of the tube to pin the loop in place. Make a loop to the other side, pull it back and sew it down to the center point, creating a figure-8 shape pinned together at the center. Repeat along the entire length of the tube, making loops and sewing them in place with the thread and needle. When you get to the top, cut the thread to remove your needle and tie a knot tight against the looped up tube of knitting, making sure you have expanded or tightened it to the final length you want the scarf to be. Leave about 3 inches of yarn hanging from this end of the sewing thread.
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Repeat the process with the blue tube and this time, make sure to pass the blue strand of yarn through both the blue and red loops -- in the place where the red tube was sewn together -- in order to connect both of them together. Tie the ends of the blue and red sewing strands together at the top to make sure the entire scarf is secure and shake out the loops so they fall into loose ruffles.
Braided Scarf
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Spool knit five 7 1/2-foot lengths of knitted tubing in complementary colors, which you'll braid to make your scarf. You can also knit ten tubes and hold them doubled as you braid, making the scarf wider and thicker than if you decide to use single tubes.
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Secure the tubes to each other about eight inches from the ends with yarn or an extra knitted cord. Make sure the strands are arranged in the proper order, by color, you would like for your braid.
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Braid your strands by passing the strand on the far left over the top of the strand to its right, then weaving the strand on the far right over the next strip to the left, under the one after that and over the center strip. This will move the strip on the far right to the second from the left and the strip on the far left to the center. Repeat this process until you get to within 8 inches of the end of the knitted tubes and then tie the tubes together in yarn or extra tubing that matches the tie you used at the beginning of the braid. These ties secure the braid and keep it from coming undone and the eight inches of loose tubes beyond the ties form a fringe.
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