Scarves - How to Make Them - Part 2

The yarn you need to make these scarves is by Red Heart. They have several brands but for the most part, the best colors are the Sashay brand by "Red Heart." 

You can see many of the colors available on yesterday's post. The yarn needs to be pulled open so that one side that has decoration on it is a way from your needles and the side you start knitting on is towards your left hand. 


Next, take your needle and go into every other hold on that far left side until you have six stitches on your needle (or mechanical pencil) as the case may be.


Next, you put the second needle up through the top stitch on the first needle so both needles are in one stitch. Then, you pull down the yarn so you can see the top line and there are two little lines every inch or so. You count down two sets of little lines and in the next space, you pull that up and over the second needle. 
 
Once again, you stick the second needle into the top stitch on the left handed first needles. Pull out your yarn and look for two sets of the litte two lines. Take the third space and put it over needle number two. Then pull that stitch down through as you can see the yellow needle doing here. 

 
Now you should have four stitches on the left needle and two on the right. 

Continue putting the right needle into the left top stitch and then pulling the third open space over the right needle and pulling that through and letting that stitch off the left needle. 

If you do it  right, you should have six stitches on the right needle and none on the left when you have finished a row. 

After that row, the needle in the right hand now changes to the needle in your left hand and you start all over.   

Once you have knit all the yarn into a scarf, you should leave about a foot of yarn hanging for your last casting off row. You knit the top two stitches as you did all the other rows. However, once you have two stitches on the right needle, you take the lowest stitch and pull it up over the stitch on the top and pull it off the tip. This leaves you with only one stitch on the needle. 

You knit another stitch from the left needle on to the right needle. Once you have two, you pull the lower one over the higher and slip it off leaving you with one stitch on the right needle again. 

You continue doing that until you only have one stitch left on the right needle. 

When you have only one stitch left, you pull it out so it is a little larger hoop. You take the dangling end of the yarn and pull the entire "tale" through the loop and pull. The pulling will make the yarn fall tighter and "close" off the loop. 
 
Just to make sure it is very secure, I then tie a knot on both ends of the scarf where the raw edge hangs.

THere are videos on youtube where you can see it more definite but being sick and having the slow internet, I figured I would just show you the basics and you can search for details if you aren't a knitter, this is an easy way to understand and learn  knitting as you can see, even my niece and nephews who are younger figured it out. It is easy once you get the hang of it.   
  
You can see the knot here. Sometimes I tie two knots just to make sure it is secure. I then cut off any excess "tales" just under the knot so they don't hang down past the end of the scarf. 

There are lots of color combinations and  they often look very different once they are made up into a scarf than they do on the skein of yarn. 

Once you know what you are doing, it goes rather quickly taking about 4-6 hours per scarf depending on how quickly you knit and if you are watching an interesting show while you knit. :-) Happy Knitting!