[Nfb-krafters-korner] more about the ruffled scarf

[Sarah Sykes]

Cathy,

Here's what's happening in your video link.

Ok, the woman is using an 8 peg loom. The brand of yarn she is using does
have one long edge with a bit of sparkle to it and one without. You can
tell the difference non-visually between these two edges by running your
fingers along them and feeling which has the denser, thicker edge made up
of a series of closely placed very thin threads. This is the sparkly edge.
You'll want to work with the other edge.

You'll notice that the yarn is made up of chords running horizontally,
attached at intervals to each other by very thin threads running
vertically. Your working edge is the same. You'll be using the section of
the working edge chord between two of the threads as your loop.

First, the woman in the video folds over the end of her yarn once. This is
the short end that is raggedy, the very beginning of the ball. Then she
takes the two loops that are now laying on top of one another and treats
them as one loop, placing them on a peg. She moves along the loom, placing
one loop on each peg, and then around again so that she will end with two
loops on each peg.

Then she works each loop off each peg from the inside. This means reaching
the tool in and grabbing the bottom loop from the inside and lifting it off
towards yourself, rather than towards the center of the loom like you would
do with a plain wrap.

She demonstrates actually removing the peg and turning it so that the
groove is towards the inside of the loom, saying that some people find this
easier to work with.

The woman continues to place and work loops of yarn until she's ready to
bind off. Along the way she mentions that the yarn does have a tendency to
twist as you work with it and she pauses to untwist it a few times.

the bind off is an ordinary tubular bind off, always remembering to work
loops off the loom from the inside toward yourself. She work one stitch,
works second stitch, then moves stitch two to peg of stitch one, then works
that peg as usually, then finally moves the loop remaining on that peg over
to the peg where stitch two used to be.

She continues binding off in this way until she has only one loop on the
loom. Then she lifts this loop off with her fingers, holds it in one hand,
uses the other hand to grap the scissors and cut the yarn about four inches
away from the loop she holds. Now she takes the entire tail of yarn and
pulls it through the loop, pulling the loop down the tail until it is snug
against the other bound off stitches.

Then she ties a granny knot with the tail right up against this last bound
off loop.

Then she cuts the tail about a quarter of an inch away from the knot. She
then flips the scarf so the ruffles hang down as they would if someone were
wearing it and shows us that the knot is covered up and not noticeable.

Then she shows a full length scarf made of the same yarn to show her
viewers how a completed scarf will look.

And that's it.

Please let me know if you still have questions about something she says
that seems unclear. I tried to describe everything, but I may have missed
something.

Good luck!

Sarah M Sykes
sarahmsykes at gmail.com
www.sarahmsykes.com