Q&A for How to Knit a Scarf

The trick to stop here is to leave yourself a few inches of yarn to work with at the end, and pull it the loop in the last row and the stitch it to anchor it in place. Cut any excessive yarn off and you're done! Some people like to use a larger needle to bind it off and you can do that too so long as it isn't too tight.

Read How to Cast Off for help with this.

Yes and no. Your needles need to match the weight of the yarn. Most yarns will come with a label that tells you what size needles you should use. In general, you need thin needles for thin yarn, and thick needles for thick yarn. You can use any thickness of yarn for the scarf, however. To make a standard scarf, use thinner yarn. To make a chunky/bulky scarf, use thicker yarn.

See How to Knit Socks .

Bind off, which means that when you are ready to be done, you knit two stitches, then pull the first one over the second one. Then knit one more stitch and pull the bottom one over that one. Essentially, just knit until you have one stitch left, then you cut your yarn (make sure to leave enough) and tie it in a knot.

You can use as many stitches as you want. There might be a limit to what your needle can hold, depending on the length of the needle and if you make a really thick scarf, it might be too big for someone's neck but the amount is up to you.

You can find/make a color pattern and follow that, or you could embroider it.

When it would normally come time to wrap your yarn around your needle for the knit stitch, drape a section about 5 inches from the end of the new yarn over the needle and treat that like the wrap. If that doesn't help, there are a lot of good videos online.

Knitting is great for kids. Many kids enjoy finger knitting as a beginner project. Check out the helpful tutorial in this article about finger knitting on wikiHow.

You would need to find a pattern with a picture of the thing, person or animal that you want to include and follow the instructions as usual.

Simply cut the first yarn and knot the second yarn in a differing color to the first one, then continue knitting.

You should be using wool, but you can make it with string if you want to.

A rib scarf is pretty in one color. Cast on 36 stitches for the first row, then k2 p2 *k4 p4* to the last 4 stitches, then k2 p2: second row P2 k2, then *p4 k4* to the last 4 stitches, then p2 k2. Continue in this manner until you reach the length you desire.

As long as you want it to be. 3-5 feet could be good, depending on how much you want to be able to wrap it around the neck or how much you want it to drape. Maybe measure a scarf you like and go by that.

The needle size is your choice. A smaller needle will give you a tighter weave, larger looser. For worsted weight yarn you can use anything from a size 7 (4.5 mm) to 10 (6 mm). As for silk, it depends on what weight the yarn is. Whether it’s made from silk, wool, acrylic or any combination, it should all be the same size In worsted weight.

1. How much wool do you have? Depending on how long you want it to be, you need to have quite a bit of wool before starting. Running out of wool halfway through a project is extremely annoying. 2. How wide do you want the scarf to be? You could have a skinny scarf or a wider one. 3. Do you want it to be stripy, patterned, or just plain? 4. Bear in mind the type of wool you want to use. If the scarf is going to be tied around someone's neck, you probably want to do it in a lovely soft wool, not a very itchy one. 5. When you have finished your scarf, please be careful when washing it. Machine washing knitted items is not a good idea. Hand wash your scarf to minimize shrinking.

It really depends on how wide you want it to be, and how loosely or tightly you knit. Most pattern writers admonish you to check your gauge, but scarves tend to be a little more relaxed about this rule. I am currently knitting a scarf that is 46 stitches with a size 10 needle using a soft mid-bulk yarn.

Always make sure your not knitting too tightly. You can tug at the scarf while knitting to keep it somewhat loose and to keep it from curling.

It would depend on the thickness of your yarn. Assuming that you're using normal yarn, your needle is too large to get tight stitches. (The size of your needle will determine how tight a stitch can be made.)

Consult Stop the Edges from Curling when Knitting a Scarf .

Any place that sells yarn will have the materials. There may be a knitting group that can help answer any questions. There are lot of videos online. Some local libraries will lend out knitting needles for projects.

A scarf can be whatever length you like. It can be just a matter of using up a skein of yarn to get a length. A 36" (1 m) length is the minimum length to wrap around the neck once.

When you finish your row, you are going to have one needle with all the stitches on it, and one needle with no stitches on it. You simply start knitting with the empty needle, just as you would if there were stitches on it.

It depends on many things - skill level, yarn and needle size, time commitment, scarf length, and especially patience. I'd say anywhere between a week and two months if you keep with it.

Yes, but it is not nearly as fun. There are plenty of knitted items at thrift stores, but many find the knitting experience is worth the initial struggle.

There are a large number of them online, or you can look for pattern books at the library.

It depends on how fast or slow you knit as well as the size of your yarn. If you use thick yarn, then it can take as little as a couple of hours. The smaller the yarn, the more time it takes.

The width should be from 6 to 14 inches, length from 50 to 90 inches. An average height man wants a scarf at least 60 inches, and a larger man should look for one in the 70-inch range.

It depends. If you want to make it bulkier or stronger with bigger loops, use big needles. If you want the opposite, use smaller needles.

It will depend on your yarn and needle size. Try casting on 15 stitches and knitting about 10 rows with the yarn and needles you want to use, then measure how many stitches are in 1 inch of the yarn. From there you can multiply the number of stitches in 1 inch times the number of inches you want the scarf to be. For example, if you find out that there are 4 stitches per inch, you would need to cast on 24 stitches.