Milinda Sews

I love scarves. They can make an ordinary t-shirt extraordinary. But the perfect scarf is hard to find. What if I told you that you could make the perfect scarf in an  hour or less using an ordinary flour sack towel? The loosely woven, 100% cotton flour sack is perfect for a soft, flowing, easy to dye scarf.

Supplies:

1 flour sack towel (available in kitchen towel section of major retailers)

Embroidery Machine

Coordinating thread with matching bobbins

Sulky Solvy (heavy)

Optional: Serger

trim

Instructions:

Step 1:

Cut towel in half

 

Step 2:

Sew or serge strips together, end to end to create one 60” long flour sack strip

Step 3:

Steam press newly created 60” strip

Step 4:

Serge or narrow hem long edges of scarf

Step 5:

Cut a strip of sulky solvy heavyweight the same width and length as your scarf

Step 6:

Place sulky solvy strip beneath flour sack strip

Step 7:

Choose your first stitch pattern

Determine where you want your first line of stitching, mark a measurement on your machine bed

Begin sewing

 

Step 8:

Continue adding lines of stitching changing colors if you wish, until you are happy with your results!

Note: using your quilting guide bar can be helpful when you begin stitching the center lines of your creation.

Notes while sewing

Note: It’s very helpful to have digital movies to watch as you sew. Each scarf took a total of 3 hours to sew! That’s four episodes of “Lie to Me” and four episodes of “Justified”

I set my I-phone on top of my machine, turn on Netflix and sew.

Step 9:

Serge, narrow hem or add trim to ends of scarf

 

Voila!
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