After a few crafting successes, I decided to try my luck at arm knitting a scarf. I mean, it is a pretty popular trend and I would say that in terms of crafting ability I have above average skills, so why knot... I mean not. Well, one giant KNOT is why. The following pictures demonstrate the struggle that was the arm-knitted scarf.
I did my homework on this project before I began. I watched a view YouTube videos, checked out a variety of pins to get the most detailed information. I felt like I was setting myself up for real success on this one. While attempting to complete this forsaken project, I had to watch, pause, rewatch and pause that darn YouTube tutorial at least 50 times. I tried, I really did. This just didn't work out well.
** These directions are not nearly detailed enough to allow you to do this, mainly because my struggle of an attempt through this project is NOT the example you should follow if you want to attempt the Everest that is arm-knitted scarves.
Step 1: Unravel the skein of yarn. This step was okay.
Step 2: Tie a slip-knot. After a few tries, I had this one down too.
Step 3: Knit the first set of stitches onto one arm. It took a few tries, but I got there.
Step 4: Transfer the scarf to your other arm. Again, took a few tries, but I got there.
Step 5: Continue knitting back and forth from one arm to the other.
Step 6: Recognize that the scarf you have above looks like poo (at least on the bottom with the super loose stitches) and start over.
*** This photo was taken after I had restarted 4 times. At that point, I stopped taking photo documentation of this hot mess.
Even after my many attempts to make this work, I would say the arm-knitted scarf was DEFINITELY a pinspired trick.
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