How to Make Homemade Scarves With Yarn Knots
- 1). Unravel the end of a ball of yarn and grasp the end of the yarn between your thumb and pointer finger. Fold the end of the yarn over by 2 inches, and twist it one turn to create a loop. Insert your finger and thumb inside of the loop and grasp the tail of the yarn. Slide the loop onto one of the knitting needles and pull to create a knotted loop.
- 2). Grasp the yarn tail that is stretched between the knitting needle and the yarn ball, and allow the yarn to hang over the back of your thumb while holding your palm down. Twist your hand so that your palm faces upward, which will create a yarn loop across your palm. Insert the same knitting needle into the loop, and let go of the yarn. This will cause the yarn to tighten onto the knitting needle as a cast-on stitch. Repeat to cast on 20 stitches.
- 3). Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand and the empty knitting needle in your right hand. Insert the right needle into the first stitch on the left needle, then wrap the yarn that is still connected to the yarn ball around the right knitting needle. Lower the right needle underneath the left stitch, then lift the right needle off of the left needle. This will release the first stitch as a knitted stitch. Knit all the stitches in the row.
- 4). Hold the knitting needle with the knitted stitches in your left hand, and hold the empty knitting needle in your right hand. Knit the stitches as before. Repeat this process until your knitting is approximately 60 inches long.
- 5). Insert the right needle into the first stitch on the left needle, as before. Knit the stitch as usual. Insert the right needle into the second stitch, but simply lift it directly onto the right needle. Slide the first knit stitch over the second stitch, and allow the first stitch to hang off of the knitting needle as one cast off stitch. Repeat to cast off all of the stitches. Cut off the excess yarn from the yarn ball using scissors, leaving a 6-inch tail. Slide the remaining stitch onto a yarn needle, and knot the yarn onto the neighboring stitch. Cut off the remaining excess yarn from the scarf using scissors and weave in the end. This completes the yarn scarf.
- 6). Cut ten pieces of yarn using scissors to measure 8 inches long each. Stack the yarn pieces into a group. Fold the yarn stack in half, then insert the loop end of the stack into one hole in the end of the scarf. Insert the ends of the yarn pieces into the loop, then pull the ends tight to cinch the yarn into a knot. Repeat this process along both ends of the scarf, spacing each yarn knot 1 inch apart.
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