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Now That’s My Kind of Knitting…..

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I have never been fond of knitting.  I am self-taught under duress.   When I was a senior at Drexel University, I decided to design sweaters and a knit skirt for my senior collection.  I was able to use a knitting machine for the sweaters (which I loved!), but the yarn for the skirt was just to curly and loopy to work on a machine.  So I bought a book and spent many hours knitting and unraveling and knitting again.  I finished the skirt, but decided that knitting was not for me.  That was until I discovered this on Pinterest.  It is called arm knitting and you use chunky yarn.  I made a scarf and actually had fun doing it.  The total project took 20 minutes.  Fun and fast?  That is a win!

Original pin scarf

Original Pinterest inspiration

chunky yarn

Chunky yarn

casting on

Casting on

adding rows

Starting the rows

making progress

The knitting progresses….

finished scarf

The Finished scarf

on the model

Ta-dah!

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A new way to wear an old scarf

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I am really drawn to scarves.  I buy many of them and wear them infrequently.  I find that I never know what to do with the long ends – knotting them can make the scarf seem too bulky and sometimes the ends just get in the way.  I pinned this a few weeks ago and thought I’d give it a try.  I think I found a new way to jazz up those old scarves in my closet.

original pin

original scarf

My Turn

starting scarf

step 1

step 2

step 3

ta-dah