.Scarfs Galore IV.

After making all these scarfs, I had a lot of leftover fabric lying around and I knew just what to do. First off, a few months ago my friend Katie was wearing a super cute pair of boots with these cute knee high socks.....or so I thought. She revealed that they were not actually socks but sleeves to an old sweater she cut off and wore under her boots. SO FREAKIN' CUTE! After I made the sweater-cowl neck scarf, I knew just how to use the sleeves, make them into socks/leg warmers.
Literally, all I did was cut the sleeves off the sweater and I managed to gain two useful ways to wear them.

Look A.) wearing a pair of skinny jeans or leggings around the house? Throw on your sleeves for a cute leg warmer look.

Look B.) Again, wearing skinny jeans or leggings and add your favorite boots. BOOM, cute boot-socks ;)

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After turning my old winter white scarf into an infinity scarf, I had the yarn fringe left over and I was wondering what to do with all that nice yarn. I then remembered a cute headband I saw a tutorial on a blog a few days ago.

First you take an old T-shirt a cut off the sleeve.

From there you trim off the hemmed edge and the edge that was connected to the shirt.

 That should leave you with a 2-4" loop. (there is no need to worry about the edges being perfect, they curl up anyways.)

You can leave the headband as is, or you can take a needle and thread and make a few running stitches on the head band. Make sure you use the same color thread as your headband, I used white so you can see what I am talking about. You then scrunch it to your desired look and tie off the thread.

You can leave it like this or add a cute flower or accessory to the headband. I choose to take the white yarn from my scarf, as I stated above, and make a pom-pom. I then sewed the small, cute pom-pom to the cinched part of the headband. Check out that cutenss.

Was not done on purpose, but this headband can double as a cute accessory on UNC game day ;)



.Scarfs Galore III.

I found this really cute tutorial on how to trun an old cardigan into a cute cowl neck scarf. Looking through my massive closet of clothes, I stumbled upon an old Tommy Hilfiger sweater that I used to be obsessed with but refused to part with after I spilt coffee on it a few years ago. This was the perfect way to make use of my favorite old sweater.

As you can see, it has these really cute buttons up the side, which will help me mock the look of the cardigan sweater I found a few days ago.

I cut the sweater about 2-4" below the armpit to make the actual scarf.

The original tutorial I found required a sewing machine, but I do not have one so this is where I had to improvise. I used a no-sew hem tape that adherse two pieces of fabric with the use of an iron. I took the top of the sweater and folded it over no more than a 1/2" and iron it. This gives you a nice hem so there is not a raw edge. The only plus to sewing is you can make it a tighter hem, but I like the way this is nice and loose around the neck. 

Super easy, Super cute.

.Scarfs Galore II.

Since my last endeavour to create a scarf I found on Pinterest, I have stumbled upon quite a few DIY projects that I have decided to put my own spin on.
First, I saw a cute infinity scarf that was crocheted. It was so warm and wintry looking and all the tutorials I found were for people who already knew how to crochet. I don't have the time to learn a new hobby because lets face it by the time I master the skill of crocheting it would be July. As I was going through a bag of old clothes that I have been holding onto since high school......yes, that is right I still have clothes from when I was in high school. Anyways, I found this super cute, winter white knitted scarf. JACKPOT!!!! Only, it had this ugly fringe on the ends and I wanted an infinity scarf. What to do? What to do? I will tell you how to revamp and old, out of date scarf into a new, trendy winter scarf in less than 10 minutes!

Here's the original scarf. Not bad, just cant stand the fringe at the ends. 

I matched up the ends and ran some stitches up and down to secure it making sure the ends were extra sturdy.  

After the two ends have been stitched together, I then proceeded to trim off the excess and then flip the scarf inside out.

TA-DA, super cute crocheted looking scarf.

.Scarfs Galore I.

I was recently introduced to the wonderful world of Pinterest by, well almost every female in the world. After my girlfriend Heather forwarded me my invite, I was hooked. This has got to be the funnest way to kill time. I am espically in love with the section of DIY projects. Inparticualry, I am obsessed with the tutorials I have come across containing how-to's
 on making scarfs out of old t-shirts.
Quinn, my boyfriend, has recently lost a substantial amount of weight so I have a ton of old T's lying around and all the time in the world. With this being said, today will be the day I try to get crafy.

Check back, I plan on posting pictures of my finished project.

This is what I am going for, we will see how it turns out!!!

and this is what mine ended up looking like: