How to knit
A Beginners Infinity Scarf
INFINITY SCARF Pattern for BEGINNERS (step-by-step tutorial)
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today I'll show you how to knit the
mistake rib infinity scarf this is a
great scarf for beginners because it's
made up entirely of knits and pearls
it's also really quick to knit up
because we're using super chunky yarn so
download the full pattern in the
description print it out and follow
along I've also made video chapters in
the description so you can easily
navigate through this video so a note
about construction this infinity scarf
is not knit in the round it's knit slack
like a scarf and at the end we'll just
seam it up which I'll show you how to do
later on for the scarf I used four balls
of Lanna grossa ragazza yarn this is a
super bulky merino yarn and it equals
about a hundred and seventy six yards I
knit up all the yarn before I could take
a photo so that's why I'm using the
product photo and I'll throw links to
all the materials in the description I
also used ten millimeter knitting
needles I like bamboo needles because it
grips the yarn and is less slippery to
work with I also used a tapestry needle
for seaming a tape measure and split
ring stitch markers which are optional
alright so I'm going to cast on 21
stitches I'll use the longtail cast on
so I'm leaving like a bit of a tail here
I think that's enough for 21 stitches
and I'll make my slip knot here we go
and place it on my needle now if you
don't know how to do the longtail cast
on then check out this video here where
the eye is and you know learn how to do
that and come back here and cast on your
stitches okay so I'm casting on 21
stitches according to the pattern now if
you're using like a thinner yarn or a
thicker yarn and you want to cast on a
different number of stitches like you
want a less wide or a wider infinity
scarf you can actually do that you can
just cast on a multiple of four plus one
okay so what does that mean all it means
is that you need to cast on a multiple
of 4 so 4 8 16 20 24 28 and then add one
to it okay so you could cast on like 24
which is a multiple of 4 and then add
one which is 25 so you could cast on 25
stitches for our infinity scarf I'm
casting on 21 stitches
20 is multiple of 4 and I've added one
to it so that's 21 alright so let's get
into our stitch pattern okay so the
stitch pattern is actually quite simple
it is made up of two rows Row one and
Row two so let's go through Row one
first okay so what I'm gonna do is slip
one knit wise so I'm gonna push my
needle into my first stitch as if I were
going to knit and then just slip it off
of the left needle so next what I'm
gonna do is knit one so here we go knit
one cool and then I'm going to start my
repeat okay so you can see this little
asterisks here that basically signals
the beginning of the repeat okay so it
goes asterisks purl two so I'm gonna
bring my yarn up front to do a purl two
so here we're gonna purl one okay and
then we're gonna purl choose is my
second purl stitch so throw it up yeah
alright and then we're going to knit two
here we go knit one and knit two all
right so now our instructions say to
repeat from the star or the asterisks so
that's what our repeat is basically purl
two and knit two so we'll go all the way
back to purl two
all right here we go purl two and knit
two so here we go knit two so it says
that we need to repeat from start to
last three stitches okay so I've just
finished that repeat right I did purl
two and then knit two so now I'm back to
a purl two
okay so we're gonna continue this pull
two knit two until we get to our last
three stitches at which point we're
going to purl two and knit one so let's
do that and now I've got my last three
stitches so what I'm gonna do is purl
two as my instructions say
here's my little too cool and then
here's my last stitch and I'm gonna knit
one
perfect okay so that is my Row one so
I'm gonna turn my needle over and we're
gonna work Row two so for Row two we're
gonna slip 1 purlwise and what that
means is I'm gonna take my right needle
and go into this first stitch as if I
were gonna purl when we purl we usually
have our yarn in front right so I'm
gonna slip my right needle into this
first stitch make sure my yarn is in
front okay so I'm just gonna throw it
over my needle so my needle is behind my
working yarn and then I'm just going to
slip that first stitch off of my needle
so that's a slip 1 purlwise alright so
next I'm going to purl one and
conveniently my yarn is already in the
front so I'm just going to purl into it
cool alright so now come the asterisks
so the pattern goes asterisks knit two
purl two so I'm gonna bring my yarn to
the back cuz now we're doing into two so
here we go knit two here we go knit two
and then purl two so here we go
purl two alright so that is basically
our repeat so we're gonna repeat this
knit two purl two across the whole row
until we get to our last three stitches
so let's just do that alright
repeating a knit two purl two so it's
actually very similar to Row one right
and here we go that was my last purl two
and now I've got three stitches left and
I'm just going to knit two here we go
and purl one awesome so that is our row
two
alright so now I would just turn my
needle over and work Row one all over
again right so that would just be a slip
one knit one knit one and purl two
alright so these two rows make up the
mistake rib so you would just alternate
between Row one and Row two so work
these two rows until your scarf measures
forty two inches if you plan on blocking
or around 48 inches if you don't want to
block all right so happy mistake rib
knitting so the reason why you need to
slip your first stitch purlwise and knit
wise is so that you'll get this really
nice selvage edge on your scarf so here
you can see it on this side and right
here you can see this really nice edge
right so that's what slipping our
stitches can do
okay so you might be wondering like how
am I gonna keep Row 1 and Row 2 straight
in my head at some point you might just
lose track right you might forget am I
supposed to be working Row 1 here or Row
2 kind of hard to remember okay so I've
got a little hack for you if the first
stitch on your row is a purl stitch and
I can tell by this little purl bump here
then I should be working Row 2 right
because I need to slip 1 purlwise on Row
2 on the other hand if the first stitch
of the row is a knit stitch as you can
see right here you can kind of see that
little v-shape then you should be
working in Row 1
okay so Row 1 I'm gonna slip 1 knit one
and then knit 1
so I know that this is gonna be a Row
one that I need to work because my first
stitch on the row was a knit stitch
alrighty so don't get confused just look
to your knitting and it'll give you
hints about what row you should be
working
so now my scarf measures around 42
inches look how long it is whoo so when
I wrap it around my neck it looks a
little short but I can fix that by
blocking the scarf later on so I could
knit this a little bit longer but I
don't have any more yarn whoo I didn't
buy enough which was a pretty dumb move
but blocking this will give me five or
six more inches so I'm okay for now so
just FYI I used 150 yards of super bulky
weight yarn so if you have more yarn you
can always knit the scarf to the exact
length that you like instead of blocking
totally up to you so now it's time to
cast off which means we're gonna get the
scarf off of our needle so I'm gonna do
a regular old cast off you don't need to
make our cast off very nice because when
we seam our cast off edge is gonna be
hidden so there's no point making it
really pretty so I've just knit two
stitches and I'm gonna go under the
first stitch and bring it over the
second stitch and I've just cast it off
one okay so here we go again I'm going
to knit two on my right needle go into
that first stitch and bring it over in
the second stitch and just continue
going so knit one and bring my needle
into the first stitch over the second
stitch so as you can see there's this
nice cast off edge forming so we'll do
that across the whole row until we reach
our last stitch oh yeah so keep a loose
hand as you're casting off don't grip
your yarn too tightly keep it nice and
loose and your cast off edge will be
nice and stretchy alright so here I'm
near the end of my row and here we go
cool so normally you would just cut off
like a length of yarn here snip snip and
then like weave it into your scarf right
but we're gonna do something a little
bit different okay so just stay with me
here do not cut off your yarn yet so
what we're gonna do is just measure out
a length of yarn that is seven times the
width of our cast off edge okay at least
seven times
so we're just gonna go like this okay
well measure out this yarn here's one
one width okay two three four five
whoops
five six and seven okay cool so this is
a length of yarn that is seven times the
width of my cast-off edge and then once
I have that I'm gonna just cut it off
right there we go
cool alrighty so now I can bring this
yarn through this last ditch and fully
cast off my scarf okay I just took the
length of yarn here we go wrap it around
my needle and then just bring this
stitch on my needle over the yarn okay
here it is
and just pull pull the whole length of
yarn through that last stitch pull it
tight and now we're fully cast off
whoo-hoo yeah okay so explanation time
why do we need this long length of yarn
it's weird and like what okay so what
we're gonna do is we need to seam our
scarf together right so that it actually
becomes an infinity scarf so next we're
actually going to put the two sides of
our scarf together and then use this
long length of yarn to seam the two ends
together so that our scarf becomes an
infinity scarf so you guessed it next
we're gonna talk all about seaming
ooh so before we see we need to weave in
the ends of our yarn so this is the cast
on edge of our scarf and this is the
leftover from our cast on okay so we
need to weave in this into our scarf
before we seam our scarf together so
let's do that real quick all right so
let's do this I've got my tapestry
needle here this is just like looks like
a giant sewing needle and I can use this
to weave in my ends okay so I'm gonna
take my yarn tail here and just you know
I try to thread it through my tapestry
needle there we go cool so we're just
gonna basically hide this length of yarn
in our scarf so what I like to do is
look for the little purl bumps purl
bumps are a great place to camouflage
our yarn so here I can see there's like
a little bump here right so I'm just
gonna go into this little purl bump here
we go cool yeah alright and so I'll go
into these little stitches like five or
six times I basically just want to
secure this yarn tail and kind of
camouflage it in my yarn okay so let's
take a look here the edge of my scarf I
don't want to like disrupt this nice
knit column so I'm just gonna go like
underneath that knit stitch okay alright
this is a pretty lawless I don't have
any really hard or fast rules for
weaving in the ends
we're just securing this little yarn
tail in place so let's see let's go in
here little purl bump here's a little
pearl bumpy and let's go in like one
more time let's just go in another
we'll just try and camouflage it right
near that NIT column okay so that looks
now looks pretty okay I mean you know if
you're looking for it if you're really
searching you could probably find a
woven in tail but most people are not
looking and I'm pretty satisfied with
that I'm just gonna stretch it out a
little bit okay and then just snip it
off right there cool get out of here I
can't get the scissors off my hand okay
here's our little tail and let's just
get rid of it and now one end of our
scarf looks awesome
and you can barely even see where the
yarn tail is cool so now we can see our
scarf together so now you're gonna
decide which side of your scarf you want
to be the good side okay so that means
the side that's gonna be facing out the
side that everyone is gonna see right
not the side that's facing your body
okay so if you don't really have a
preference and it doesn't really matter
for me I kind of like this side a little
bit better so what we're gonna do is put
the right sides of our scarf together
okay so again this is my right side or
my good side and you know duh this side
is also my right side so we're gonna
place them together and then we're going
to seam our scarf together here
so I'm gonna get out my tapestry needle
and just thread up this super long yarn
tail here all right there we go got it
on my needle cool and I've also got
these little split ring stitch markers
and what these are for is they're meant
to help me line up my scarf okay so
let's take a look here now you can see
that we have these lovely columns of
knit stitches right so I want these
columns of knits to line up when I'm
seaming it right I want it to be like
really nicely aligned like this so what
I'm gonna do with these little stitch
markers is I'm going to match up those
knit columns on the front in the back of
my work here so here's a knit column
right and here is my the corresponding
knit column here so I'm just gonna match
them up and I'm gonna use my stitch
marker to just kind of not tie them in
place but kind of just hold them in
place there right and let's just go
across this whole scarf now if you don't
have these markers that's okay you can
use like a safety pin or even like a
bobby pin you can get kind of creative
with that as well alright so there we go
we can take a look at our two ends and I
can see that yes the columns match up
pretty nicely alright so yes I'm being
like really careful kind of extra but
that's because I want that seam to look
almost invisible alright so let's get
started so we're gonna use something
called the backstitch method this is
very common in hand sewing and I think
it'll work really nicely with this scarf
as well okay so I've got my yarn it's
coming out of the back of my scarf and
what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go
through the front of my scarf like this
okay so I'm gonna go like half an inch
from the edge okay and I'm gonna pull
the needle through just like this okay
and now you'll see the reason why this
is called back stitch is we're gonna go
back behind where the yarn came oh okay
so here my needle is gonna go behind
this yarn all the way to the edge pretty
much right right up to the edge of my
scarf okay pretty good and through to
the other side and I'm gonna pull it
through now I'm gonna bring my needle
it's on the back now I'm gonna bring it
just poke it in through to the front
okay like about an inch or so from the
edge okay poke it all the way through
okay and then pull the yarn through cool
alright so now our yarn is in the front
again and we're gonna take our needle
and go behind the yarn we're gonna go
back okay so I'm just gonna go like a
tiny bit back right on the right
underneath the cast-off edge and I'm
gonna poke my needle through to the
other side and then I'm gonna grab okay
a bit of fabric from the back just a
tiny bit and then push my needle through
to the front just like this okay so you
can see there's like needle strand of
yarn needle okay we've kind of
sandwiched the strand of yarn with our
needle and then I'm going to pull the
yarn through BAM
alright so I'm gonna give my yarn a bit
of a tug just to tighten it okay tighten
that seam and now you can see our yarn
is in the front again and we're gonna go
back behind it okay push that needle
through alright to the other side to the
back side and here's our knit column I'm
just gonna make sure it's aligned on the
front and it is okay so here we go we're
on the back and we're just gonna grab a
bit of fabric on the back push it into
the front and now you can see that our
needle is kind of sandwich in the strand
of yarn
we'll pull through tighten it up and tug
okay
and again our yarn is in the front we're
gonna take our needle push it behind
that strand of yarn okay to the back
grab a little from the back and then
push it the needle into the front
okay so needle yarn strand meat'll and
then hold it through again okay so we're
gonna go again here's our strand of yarn
we're gonna go behind it just like this
through to the other side I just want to
catch it right below the cast-off edge
and then grab a bit from the back and
then push into the front and then pull
it through so you're kind of getting the
hang of it you know what you need to do
next here's the strand of yarn we're
gonna go behind it
alright like around II around here push
it to the back grab a bit of the back
push through to the front there we go
needle yarn needle and pull it through
okay so that's really all there is to
back stitch okay
strand of yarn go behind the surround of
yarn a wee bit just believe it alright
grab some from the back okay push into
the front periodically take a look at
the knit columns make sure they're
lining up on front in the back and then
just work your way seaming across the
whole seam of your scarf
alright so I'm nearing the end of my
scarf and I'm just making sure that it
lines up really neatly I'm just gonna
hold it like that
okay we're almost there here we go
and pull it through go behind our strand
of yarn and here we go and like right at
the edge here really close to finishing
let's push pull our yarn through and
let's just do like another what's it
called another stitch I'm gonna pull the
yarn through to the back just pull it
all there and once I get to this little
edge here I'm gonna be real careful to
make sure I get all of the edge in okay
so I'm just going through here again
okay and maybe I'll just do another
stitch all right here right at the edge
because I want to make sure it's like
perfectly kind of closed up here we go
push that in here and here we go so it
looks nice and closed and secured now
let's take a look at our how our knit
stitches line up and they look fabulous
if I do say so myself I'm just gonna
undo these little stitch markers and Wow
it looks really nice I'm always like
amazed when things turn out the way
they're supposed to I don't know why but
yeah it looks really nice right you can
see that seam it's a little bit thick
but that's because our you know our yarn
is quite thick and this is what it looks
like on the wrong side wrong side of our
work in on the right side let's take a
look hey oh not bad at all I can see
that the knit stitches line up really
nicely and you know like it's a little
bit chunky but we can get rid of that
chunkiness when we block out this scarf
okay but let's finish up our seam okay
we're getting a little ahead of
ourselves okay so we've closed up the
edge here and now I'm gonna weave in the
ends of my yarn cool so I'm just gonna
stick my needle into this little purl
stitch here as I mentioned earlier I
love using purl stitches to weave in my
ends kind of camouflage the yarn here we
go and
do this like a couple times let's go
into like five or six stitches here okay
duh okay cool alright so I'm just gonna
stretch out this area where I wove in my
ends and now I'll take my little scissor
and just cut it loose and whoo tada our
scarf is now joined in the round I'm
gonna turn it over to the right side and
our seam looks not too bad at all
looking pretty good on both sides if
you're infinity scarf fits you exactly
how you like then awesome you're
basically done but if you're like me and
your infinity scarf is a little bit
shorter than what you'd like then you
can block your infinity scarf which is
what we're gonna do next so I've got a
tub here that I've filled with some
room-temperature water so it's not cold
it's not warm it's just sort of like meh
kind of water okay so I've got my
infinity scarf here and I'm just gonna
submerge it into this tub of water here
we go whoa look at it go
awesome so we just want to push the
scarf under the water and kind of like
trying to drown it that's a little bit
sinister but you know I really want the
fibers of my cowl to be submerged so the
more that you need to stretch your cowl
the longer it should stay in the tub
okay so now it's like fully submerged
and I'm just gonna leave it alone
soaking in this tub for like 20 minutes
so our scarf has been sitting here for
about 20 minutes so now I'm just going
to push out as much water as I can okay
so whoopsie
so I'm not like wringing out the scarf
I'm kind of just pushing out the water
or as much water as I can so here is my
super wet scarf I just laid it out on
top of a bath mat here and now I'm going
to stretch out my scarf to the length
that I want it to be okay so I know that
my final length
should be 48 inches that's the target
circumference so 48 into 2 is a a 24
alright so this half of the scarf should
measure out to 24 inches let's see and
it's 23 right now so I need to stretch
it out so that it's 24 and is that gonna
do the trick and maybe a little bit more
over here and there we go that is
exactly 24 perfect all right so now that
I know that the length is right I want
to make sure that the width is exactly
the same throughout the whole scarf okay
so you can see over here where the edge
is
it's like splayed out in the middle it
looks a little bit thinner so let's say
I want it to be 7 and 1/2 inches so I'm
gonna pull down this area here so that
it's 7 and 1/2 and then just go across
my whole scarf make sure that it is 7
and 1/2 all the way through it's a
little bit thicker here so I'm just
gonna like kind of scrunch it up a
little bit so that's the great thing
about blocking is that you can really
manipulate your knitting when it's wet
and when it dries your knitting will
basically dry in that shape right so
it's great you can kind of push and pull
your scarf so that it becomes the shape
that you want it to be all right so now
it looks really nice and even so now all
I need to do is just leave it alone
make yourself a sandwich and relax come
back the next day and you'll have a
beautiful infinity scarf that you can
wear alright so it's been about two days
and my scarf is now fully dried oh it's
so soft so it looks awesome it still
measures 48 inches and it measures seven
and a half inches down this way too so
it dried exactly in the shape that I
left it in it looks awesome and I also
want to show you that the seam after
blocking it's kind of flattened out a
bit it used to be a little bit bumpy and
after blocking it's nice and flat now
the inside still has this big chunky
seam but that's okay because it's on the
in
side of my infinity scarf so I can
always hide it alright so that's pretty
much it now I have an infinity scarf on
my hands I could throw it over my head
and wear it out and admire it and let
everybody know that hey I just knit this
oh yeah I'm kind of a domestic goddess
now alright so I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial I'm Davina from
sheepandstitch.com thanks so much for
watching keep warm happy knitting and
I'll see you next time bye
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