Materials:
Lay out your fleece. The bolt I got was 60" wide, so I folded it in half for cutting (it's easier to cut straight for 30" than 60"). I like long scarves and so do all of my friends, so this worked out well. Decide how wide you want your scarves -- I eyeballed about five or six inches each. Cut a straight line from bottom edge to top edge. You are finished. I told you this was easy. Basically, a fleece scarf is just a scarf-shaped rectangle of fleece. Of course, you can do some fancy-pants stuff to adorn them, if you're so inclined.
Optional fancy-pants instructions: The easiest thing to do is cut fringe into the ends of your scarves. Using the length of my scissors as a guide, I cut centimeter-ish wide fringe into each skinny end of the rectangles. Fun! For one close friend, I cut two pieces of light-coloured fleece and appliqued a snail. If you're good at sewing, you can do a blanket stitch all around the scarf edges, which looks awesome.
Fleece is my new favourite fabric. It's warm, it's cozy, and the ends don't have to be finished. This Christmas, I made several scarves for friends using about a yard of fleece. Making a fleece scarf is easy-peasy and requires NO SEWING! All you have to do is be able to cut in a straight line, and even that can be faked with the aid of a ruler. Woo-hoo!
Let me take a moment to advise you to splurge on the good stuff here. Good fleece is costly, I know, and there are lots of lesser fleeces on the market that are plenty cute. Don't buy them. They are thinner, not as warm, and pill like the dickens -- you will be sorry. Buy quality fleece, like Polartec. It's worth every penny. It's thick, plush, warm, pill-resistant, often has a rain-resistant coating, and comes in eighty-bazillion colours and patterns. I bought my Polartec from the Malden Mills outlet in Seattle. Get yours from that link, or search online for Malden Mills Polartec, and you will be a happy camper. Consider the following: If the good fleece is $12 a yard, you can cut approximately six scarves out of that fabric, resulting in a cost of $2 per gift. You can't beat that. So do yourself a favour and buy the good stuff. The preceding has been a Public Service Announcement from your local Heather Broadcasting Network.
Total time spent: approximately five minutes each
US Dollars spent: approximately two dollars each
Please note: Unless otherwise noted, all of these instructions, photographs, and ideas are mine. Please give me credit (and send me pictures!) if you work off of these designs. The sale of any items based on these designs is prohibited.
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