If you’ll be wearing the infinity scarf during chillier weather, pick a heavy, textured fabric. For lighter weather, choose a softer, lightweight fabric like cotton. If you’re using cotton fabric, wash and dry it to preshrink the material before you cut it.
To make a fuller infinity scarf, wrap the fabric around your neck a few times and trim 1 end until the scarf is as short as you want.
The wrong side of the fabric should be facing up, which means that the right sides with the pattern are touching.
If you’re using a stretchy fabric, set your machine to make zigzag stitches instead of straight stitches. The zigzag stitches are more flexible so they won’t break if you pull on the scarf.
Don’t flip all of the tube right side out or the seams on the short ends of the tube will be visible on your finished scarf. This is why it’s important to leave a gap when you sew the short ends; you’ll reach in and completely turn the fabric right side out.
Remove the pins as you work so you don’t accidentally sew over them and damage your machine.
To wear your new infinity scarf, twist the scarf in the middle to make 2 loops and stack the loops. Stick your head through them and fluff the scarf around your neck.
Check to see that you’re cutting through both layers of the shirt. If your scissors aren’t sharp enough to cut through 2 layers of material, cut across the top layer and turn the shirt over so you can keep cutting.
The higher you cut, the wider or thicker your scarf will be. For a really skinny infinity scarf, cut across the shirt closer to the belly.
If you made a skinny infinity scarf, you could pair it with another skinny infinity scarf in a complementary color.
If you’d like to make a multicolored infinity scarf, get 2 different colors or find yarn that’s multicolored.
If you want to make a large, loose infinity scarf, try knitting it with your arm!
Twisting the tube gives your infinity scarf a little more volume and texture. If you want the infinity scarf to simply be a tube that you twist when you wear, don’t twist the scarf before you join the ends.
Keep your stitches slightly loose since you’ll be pulling them once you’ve finished seaming.
Stop pulling as soon as the edges meet. If you pull too hard and the fabric puckers, just tug the fabric edges in opposite directions until they loosen.
