The idea for this scarf materialized from seeing one my managers at work sporting a cool-looking arm-knit scarf one day and my brain going “I have to make one of those!” So one night, when I was sick with a bad cough and couldn’t fall asleep, I found the chunkiest yarn I had (leftovers from the Chunky Cabled Vest) and learned to arm knit. It looked easy – you just use your hands as needles, right? So I cast one and even knit a row easily. But what then? I couldn’t turn my right arm to the left side so I could knit the next row. So I tried pulling all the stitches off and moving them to the left arm, but that was just cumbersome.
That’s when I had to actually look up a tutorial on how to do it, and found out that I have to learn to knit backwards. It was a bit of getting used to, but wasn’t hard at all. So within half an hour from the start, my scarf was done, and I also used up another ball of scrap yarn. I also relaxed enough to fall asleep better and had something warm for my neck that I got a lot of compliments on.
I like wearing it like a necklace, with three layers separated (below), but it can also be worn in equal length layers.
Here are links to this project on Ravelry and Pinterest.
