Scrap Buster - No Sew Fleece Scarf

The missionaries came for dinner on Saturday. I like to make what we call a “lovely departing gift” for our guests to take with them to remember the visit to our home. My daughter didn’t tell me they were coming until 3 hours before they were due to arrive. That did not give me much time to decide what to make, create two of them, and clean up my mess before the missionaries arrived.

I ended up falling back on an old favorite of mine—no sew fleece scarves. Our visiting missionaries this time were two lovely, young girls. I had fleece on hand. I decided to use white fleece as it would go with everything and I had no plan for the fleece when I bought it. Like a lot of the pieces in my stash it was on sale for 50% off and there was a piece of it in the remnant bin at Jo-Ann’s. That means the remnant was 50% off the sale price which made the 1-yard cut cost very inexpensive. The scarves ended up costing pennies.

Here is how to make the scarf:

What you will need:

A piece of fleece at least 10 inches wide

Scissors and measuring tape

What you will need to do:

Step one Cut the fleece 10 inches wide and the width of the fabric (WOF). You can use a rotary cutter and acrylic ruler of just an old-fashioned yard stick and a marking pen, and scissors.

Step two Remove the selvedges from both ends. Fringe the short ends by cutting approximately ¾ of an inch apart. You can eyeball this.

Easy peasy! You are done! The girls seemed to really love their scarves. The scarves are practical, pretty, and take only minutes to make.

The next day I decided to recreate this for the blog. I have lots of small pieces of fleece that I have been saving for this. In fact one of my granddaughters has been bugging me to make her a scarf from some Raiders fleece. Since I was in the mood this seemed like a great time to do it.

Out of the 1-yard remnant I was able to cut 2 scarves, a pair of size 12 months pants for baby, Amelia, and two headband/ear warmers.