I didn’t invent the design, but I wanted to try it and give a run down/review of the process. The tutorials I have found also call it the 30 minute scarf. Depending on the thickness of your yarn and the length you want, you may need varying numbers of skeins. Most I have made use about two normal size skeins. The thicker yarn will take more skeins (3-4). And for this particular method thicker yarns look best. The most challenging part of the process is understanding and completing the first row of stitches. If you know how to knit it may not be as difficult. I am a novice knitter, but have found that learning this process has helped me understand knitting with needles much better as well.
Starting out you will have your skeins or yarn balls side by side and run the two strands together. Pull about 8-10 feet of both strands and place at your feet to one side. Then form a loop at that point on the yarn that is big enough to slip over your hand and onto your arm. Make sure it is neat but not too tight. In the Starting out grid, the lower right photo is the starting position to start the second stitch.
Follow these steps with the pictures below
1 Gather both double strands with your pinkie and ring fingers and use your thumb and pointer to keep the loop open.
2 Pull your arm with the stitch on it (pictured is my right hand) lower than the other hand and straight down.
3 Slide your right hand fingers under the two strands on the outside of your left thumb.
4 Pull those strands to the right and you can pull a little extra yarn to make it easier to continue.
5 Keeping those strands on the back of your right hand, curl your right fingers under the two stands closest to you on the left pointer finger.
6 Pull these “new” strands under the strands on both thumbs.
7 Slide your right hand through the loop you are making.
8 Slide the new stitch down onto your forearm
9 Pull on both sides of thread to snug up the stitch
Once you have mastered this sequence repeat it to create 12-14 stitch loops on your forearm.
Next you begin to transfer all of the work onto your other arm. The initial 8-10 feet you put to one side should have mostly been used on the first series of stitches. So from here on the working threads are coming from the two yarn skeins.
1 This is how the completed first stitches look on your arm. Let the short loose end threads hang, those will be tied in at the end but no longer used in knitting.
2 Hold the working thread in the right hand (from which you will be slipping stitches off).
3 Grip the working threads as you slip the top loop off your arm and over your hand.
4 Pull those gripped threads up after you slip the stitch over and create a new loop.
5 Put the new loop over your left hand.
6 Snug up the thread (but not too tight).
7 Again hold the working threads in your right hand, taught from your left wrist.
8 Grip the threads and pull the next loop over, continuing the same process on all stitches.
You will continue in this way “transferring” one arm to the other until the scarf is the length you want (longer if you would like it to double over). When you get to the length you want, you need to cast off the stitches to a “finished edge”.
1 Bring the first two stitches over normally.
2 Grab the bottom stitch (which is closer to your elbow).
3 Pull the bottom stitch up and over the first stitch and off your hand.
4 This is what the remaining stitch looks like.
5 Bring over the next stitch and you will repeat bringing the bottom stitch up and over until you have only one loop at the end.
You will tie off that loop by cutting the working thread about 18-24 inches away from your knitting and pulling that yarn through the loop.
This is what the back or inside of the knitting looks like.
Fold the outside edges together. You will weave your 18 inches of remaining yarn back and forth between the two edges to secure the infinity scarf ends together. Weave all the way to the opposite end.
Then weave back toward the center a few inches (be sure not to go through the same holes and undo the securing of the edges). Then tie a knot to secure the end and cut off. Weave the beginning threads in similarly, tie and cut off also.
Flip your scarf right side out and try it on. Once you get the hang of it, making a scarf will take far less time than it took for me to write this 🙂
DIY Millennial 