Holiday crafting fun!

Hi everyone! 

I hope everyone has been having a nice and smooth holiday season so far. This has been the first year that I have vowed to actually get all of my Christmas shopping done at least a week before christmas, ( I am normally a huge shopping procrastinator) and WAA LAA! I actually accomplished my goal. Yay me! :) As promised in my last entry,  I have been working on and now finished the holiday craft I've been eyeing for quite some time on pinterest. Drum roll please.. I made the good ol' trusty crocheted infinity scarf! The one I am going to display is the first one I made. It was for myself (just in case it didn't turn out so well.) And, well I actually did such a good job that I have made two more as gifts!

To start out I got the idea when I was doing my usual binge on www.pinterest.com . I came across some girl that had displayed a really pretty purple colored scarf, (purple is my FAVORITE color ;) ) and when I clicked into it, it said "Easy Infinity scarf pattern. Well I showed the picture to my Grandmother who knows how to crochet and she said she would help me and that it would be really simple to learn. We watched the video that the girl posted just to make sure we were doing an "infinity" scarf and ran to the craft store and got all of our supplies.

Here is the link to the girls post. I found it pretty helpful :)
http://wevetriedit.com/easy-how-to-crochet-infinity-scarf/

So here is the supplies you need. I followed what the girl in the video said she used just to start out with, which was a 11.5mm needle and a nice thick wool roll. (purple of course)

When you start out, your first move is to do a single chain, she says about 72 inches long.

Now once the chain is the desired length your will do a slip stitch and link the two ends which then leads to your second row.

You will continue doing rows until your desired width. Keep in mind each time you get to the area where you started all you need to do is a slip stitch and make sure to keep the scarf straight. don't let it twist. Here is after a couple more rows :)

And a couple more!

Now we are looking like pros!!
So once you've gotten to your desired width and back to the starting point, you are going to slip stitch again and tie a little knot. Then you will want to tuck all loose ends in by threading them into thicker spots. They should hold pretty well and won't unravel.

Here is the finished product :)

So the whole thing took me maybe just a few days but with me only doing a little bit at a time because we've been so busy getting ready for Christmas and seeing family. But if you were to sit and give yourself maybe 2 hours you can have a cheap, quick and super pretty gift made.

Happy crocheting!!!