T HE F ASTEST W AY TO M AKE A C HUNKY S CARF Margaret Fangmann Comm Professor David Pack
S UPPLIES N EEDED Your arms Yarn …and Scissors!
T IPS B EFORE S TARTING Keep your working yarn close to your body. Tighten your stitches on your arm, just as you would your needles. Double strand your yarn. Make sure your tail is out of the way. Make sure you have minutes to finish your scarf.
K NITTING Y OUR F IRST R OW Hold your working yarn in your right hand. Pull the next stitch on your right hand over the working yarn. Turn the stitch and put it on your left arm. Tighten the yarn around your left arm. Repeat to end of row.
K NITTING Y OUR S ECOND R OW Hold the working yarn in your left hand. Pull the next stitch on your left arm over the working arm. Slide it onto your right arm. Tighten the yarn around your right arm. Repeat to end of row.
B INDING O FF Knit your first two stitches. Pull the first stitch you knitted over the second. Knit the next stitch. Pull the first stitch on your arm over the stitch you just knitted. Repeat to end of row.
T O L OOP OR N OT T O L OOP ? To make your scarf into an infinity scarf: Join the two ends together and use your tail to sew them together. Weave in your ends and loop around your neck! Not to loop Sew your ends in and you’re done!
W ORKS C ITED About.com, 2013: “Binding Off.” (available at Interweave Magazine, 2013: “Continental Long Tail Cast On.” (available at cast-on.aspx) cast-on.aspx Simply Maggie Blog, 2012: Arm Knitting How To” and title slide picture (available at updated). updated Purladelphiaknit, 2013: Slide 2 picture. (available at