Another scarf. I know, I know, you’ve seen scarves before on my blog (infinity scarf here, plaid flannel scarf there). But wait, this one’s different!  How?  I’m glad you asked…

This scarf is part of Sew Caroline and Sew Bon‘s Handmade Scarf Swap of 2015! Essentially, in this scarf swap, 200 people volunteer to make a scarf and send it to a total stranger who makes a scarf for someone else.  Each person involved makes a scarf and receives a scarf, but doesn’t make it for the same person who gave them their scarf.  Make sense?

I’m glad I didn’t have to do any of the organizing.  I just entered my contact information, and then magically, a few days later, my recipient’s contact info appeared in my inbox, along with her Instagram account name. She lives in Florida, so I didn’t want to make anything too warm (there goes the flannel idea). I decided to keep it simple and make a knit infinity scarf out of a fun fabric. I tried to pick a semi-neutral color, so the scarf would be versatile.  My main goal, though, was to make it warm and cozy, so I used one of the softest knits I could find.

There’s not much to say about the construction here.  You can find all of those details on my black and white circle scarf post. I did confirm, though, that a circle scarf can in fact be made out of less than 2 yards of fabric.  Why do all of the tutorials online say you need 2 yards?  If you have a fairly wide fabric, you can use 1 yard (or 1/2 yard even) and just fold the fabric in half with the cut edges together. From there, the process I used is identical to all of the tutorials out there on the interwebs.

The scarves are due in the mail on Tuesday, but I sent mine out this morning. I hope you like it, fellow swapee!