I’m working on a Swiss darned double sided scarf for someone in my knitting group. It was supposed to be a Christmas gift for her friend, but with me already having a very full plate then having to rip out all the work I did on it 4 times, it’ll be a bit late. She wanted it a medium length scarf with her friend’s favorite dog breed embroidered on the ends. I’m almost finished, but many of the concerns I’ve had from the very beginning have now become obvious.
It’s way to thick and bulky, and it can’t be comfortably wraped around my neck. Are there any styles of wearing it that could work? It’s essentially two stockinette scarfs crocheted together back to back. The two sides don’t like to stay together. I want to tack it, but there aren’t many places I can do that where it isn’t noticeable. I’d really appreciate any advise anyone can give me. Thank you!
I had to look up Swiss darning to find out it’s duplicate stitch embroidery. Thanlk you, I learned something! This sounds really cool. I immediately thought, paw prints embroidered in several places but then I think in terms of what my grandkids would like. Maybe you could incorporate something that relates to the dogs in a few places along the scarf? My idea is that if you can’t hide it, make it part of the design. As for how to wear it, I’d best leave that to others.
I forgot to mention, it dose have several paw prints on it. But there’s only so many I can put before it becomes crowded. Right now, it looks good. Is there any way I can make ‘invisible’ stitches?
Unfortunetly the background colors are red on one side and gray on the other. This project is driving me crazy! I wasn’t even able to make my own friends Christmas gifts because of it.:nails:
I’ll post a pic of it tomorrow, I’m having camera trouble right now.
The paws are all black, but I couldn’t get them lined up. I was trying to line them up perfectly, but they’er all off. I don’t get it. I embellished them all into the same stitches in one side as the other, but they all came out in different spots. The backs of the paws do meet up, but it’s only in small areas. It may still work, but I’m worried the two sides will move to much and look stretched out and ragged within just a few washes.
The scarf sounds wonderful and I’m looking forward to seeing a photo.
Maybe the way to keep the two sides together is the crocheted edging? Did you crochet to join the two panels flat as you would join squares on a blanket? What if you match up the front and back with the WSs facing and crochet to join so that you make a crease? That would force a fold at the edges and tend to keep the sides together. (You may have already done this.)
Here’s the scarf. The second picture is of the two halves separating. The bottom ends are open for me to get my hand inside to weave in the ends and finish darning.
Oh, it’s SO nice! What a great job and a cute scarf. Have you tried blocking it? Otherwise, it looks like you could tack it down more at the edges, and then, also, when you sew the bottoms shut that will help hold it in place! I really like it!
I was looking at a shirt today that had two different thread colors. To those that don’t know much about sewing, you need two bobbins of thread, one for each side of the work. Sometimes on double sided peaces of work that are different colors they use different threads to match both sides. It gave me the idea of trying to replicate that and sew across the scarf horizontally, hopefully without the stitches being seen. I’m not sure if it’ll work, but it’s worth a try.
How would I block it with the two sides sewn together? Would be just like any other blocked project?
I can’t remember what breed it is. I made the pattern then forgot what the dog was.:roll: I think it’s about the size of a Sant Bernard. It’s a big stout and hardy dog, looks like a hard worker. I’m meeting up with the woman Tuesday to give her the scarf, so I’ll find out then.
Nicely done!! Lots of hard work…definitely worth triple the cost!!
I would use grey thread for sewing together. It will not be appent on the red side and blend on the grey. Double up the thread!!
Get on with those other projects…before the spring gets here!!!:cheering: :cheering:
I’ve FINALY figured out how to sew them together without the seem being noticeable!:happydance: It took me 3 hours just to figure it out, but I did it! It’s so simple. I’m just loosely weaving in the two different yarns through the back on both pieces and twisting the yarns together as I go along to hold the peaces together. Kind of hard to explain, hope I made since. It’s looking good and the only way you can tell it’s sewn is every once and a while there’ll be a row where the stitches are a bit tighter than the rest. I’m almost done, just need to finish sewing, block it, and attach some fringe.
:woohoo:
I’ve been thinking about the price the woman I’m making this for and I agreed on. Sometimes I think I may be over charging her, but other times I think I’m undercharging. We agreed on $85 and it’s taken $20-$25 to make. If it’s worth more, I’m not going to worry about it, I’ll just stick to the original price. But if the price is too high I’m willing to go down. I’ve looked at other hand knit scarfs online and they range from $10 to $300, the embroidered scafs on the high side, but I imagine their yarn is high quality.
Very nice job!