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

[Henrietta Brewer]

Wow, what a detailed description. You are amazing. Plus, the scarf sounds like fun. Maybe just a bit of work too. lol

Thanks Henrietta
On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Sarah Sykes wrote:

> 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
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