Tutorial: How to Make a Scarf with Sleeves from a Sweater

Here's my new tutorial! How to make a sleeved scarf from a sweater! I love this so much, and with this cold weather, I wore it everyday last week. It looks great underneath my coat too. 

Anyway, here goes: 

I started with an x-large sweater

Then I cut it apart: sleeves, neck and waist ribbing. 

I cut the body into three sections. Make them as equal as you can

From the body, take the two end sections. On each section, stitch both sides creating 2 tubes. One end of each will be skinnier because of the curve of the sleeve. This is okay.   

Now attach the two tubes together creating a larger tube with a curve in the middle. You will eventually pull it inside out. 

Now here's the middle section from the body.

Cut the curve out so that you have two even pieces

Now that's better. 

Now cut into two equal halves and stitch on each side creating two tubes. 

Stitch each little tube to each end of the big tube created before. 

It should look like this. Then you will turn it inside out. 

Now for the sleeves. You are going to add ribbing from the waist onto the shoulder of each sleeve. Take the waist ribbing and measure how much you will need for each sleeve shoulder.  

Cut, stitch the sides of the ribbing, and sew onto shoulder of each sleeve.

Sleeves should look like this now.

Sew the sleeves to each end of the tube. This is how it should look like; a scarf with sleeves on the ends. 

Step by step as to how to put it on. 

Front and back views.

It's really very cozy, I love it!

By the way, a similar Julia de Burgos (Puerto Rican poet) shirt, can be found in my shop

I used every piece of the sweater except the turtle neck piece. A crew neck sweater would work just as well.

If you want to make it longer and wrap around your neck more times, you can use material from another sweater. I wanted to limit myself to using one sweater.

So start cutting up your old sweaters (or buy from a thrift shop, this one cost me $2.00!). If you do decide to use this tutorial, I would love a picture. I am also always available for questions! My "about" page contains my e-mail.