Scarves, scarves, scarves

I've been on a little bit of fabric recycling kick lately. Being rather slow in the game, I've recently discovered that scarves not only keep my neck nice and warm, it can also spruce up an outfit quite nicely.

Just in the past couple of days, I've made 3 scarves from recycled fabric. They were quick to construct, fun to make and best of all, extremely useful.

Here's the first one that I made out of an old striped sweater:

I cut the sweater in to 7" vertical strips and sewed them together to create a long scarf. Then, I made a tube out to the scarf by sewing right sides together on the long edge and flipping the tube out. To create ruffles, I treaded elastic through the tube and sewed the elastic on while stretching the elastic.


Next I was inspired by this wonderful tutorial by Put Up Your Dukes to make the second scarf.

Instead of 2 t-shirts, I used 3, as I need more length to the scarf. The end effect was still pretty.



Finally, I made a t-shirt necklace scarf! I always wanted to do this, but I knew that I had to make it a thick scarf. This is because I didn't just want to fabric necklace, but I wanted a warm scarf! I need it to be utilitarian.

I don't know when I first saw this tutorial, and I wish I could credit it properly. Who came up with it first, I wonder? If you know, please let me know! But here's my amateur attempt to show you what I did:

This scarf was made using 2 t-shirts. I cut the t-shirts into 1/2" strips horizontally to create loops. Those loops were stretchhhhhed in order to created the rolled effect. I then sewed bands to keep the loops and place and also to camouflage seams of the loops as I did not use seamless t-shirts. You could easily have tied the loops together with another piece of jersey, though.

Love them all! :)