Postby BookSaver » Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:36 pm
Oh I forgot to describe the spiral scarves from Tuesday night, very similar to that fleece one in the tutorial but lighter and more delicate. She was again repurposing Tshirts.
Start with a circle "about the size of a paper plate" and cut into it in a continuous line around, a strip 1 to 1 1/2 inch wide, which forms the circular ruffle. Then she used 2 or 3 in the same scarf, usually different colors, and tacked them together in the center because that would be at the back of the neck. Sometimes then she would put a clip somewhere down the front, sometimes just let them hang loose.
She also made flowers from the Tshirt sleeves. Cut a circle. Fold it in 4ths, hold onto the point and round off the top corners to make a petal shape. Sew or glue 4 or 5 of the folded circles onto a backing. Fluff out the petals. Again, some were all 1 color but others used 2 colors. She used the flowers for pins, scarf clips and barrettes.
The "stringy" scarves she made pretty much depended on using a tubular knit fabric like an old Tshirt. However, the spiral ones and the flowers could be cut from lightweight knit fabric or from fleece, or pretty much anything that wouldn't ravel much.
Seems like I've seen circular ruffles from sheer fabric, too, but that was as a hemmed collar or cuffs. I haven't worked with enough sheers to know how much they would ravel if not hemmed.