Finishing Touches on Main Crochet Scarf

Video Transcript

"Now, when you get to the end of your scarf; when you're on your last row. Let's see. This is the last loop that I have for making this stack so I chain one, skip over this and then I go directly into this hole. Just like this whole scarf has been done. It's the same pattern. Then again, chain one and skip over that last one. Then work my chain right there into that. Pull it through; then pull it through. Then what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to cut your yarn off like I already have and then you're just going to pull it all the way up to get your yarn in there. Now, to keep this from unraveling what you're going to do is you're going to work your needle underneath this last level of chains that sit on the top and you're going to weave the yarn in and out. So, you're just going to go forwards and backwards. Now, I just went in through the back. Pull the yarn through. Going in through the front and I'm pulling the yarn through. You just want to keep this going throughout the whole way. By weaving this in and out it will help prevent this scarf from unraveling at all, because we're getting a nice long piece woven in and out. It makes it a little bit more difficult for it to become undone. So, just keep weaving it in and out until you get to a level that's comfortable for you. What I'm going to do here since I've reached another column is after I pull it through this other side and you just want to make sure you pull out your edge to make sure it's nice and taunt. I'm going to stick my needle underneath this piece of yarn here and this stack and I'm going to work my yarn down there. I'm going to do it again to kind of make like a knot right there. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to trim this off and then to help keep it from unraveling I'm going to take my lighter and I'm going to melt right there on the edge. Now remember don't put your yarn directly in the flame and only do this with synthetic yarns; being rayon, acrylic anything that's been manufactured. You just keep it over the flame and kind of let it melt. Now, you see it changed colors on me because the flame bleached it. Its melted right there and hopefully this won't come undone. Really this, what the heat does is it takes it back to its plastic roots, brings it back together and we close it off for a nice clean finish."