100 comments on “Learn to Knit a Spiral Scarf”

1. Thank you!

2. Thanks so much for the pattern this is so pretty I think I will have a go at it. Once I finish my other projects. I am making a hat for my secret sister and i would love to have a scarf to go with it.

3. I love this scarf,thank you!

4. Thanks for the pattern, video and newsletters. You don’t know how helpful you have been. I learned to knit socks and now I can’t wait to start this pretty scarf.
   The green wrap/scarf in the background is also pretty. What is the name of the pattern?
   Thank you again,
   Martha

5. Great Tutorial as always. I love this scarf. I am planning on making some for Christmas Gifts.
   I already started one for myself. I am using Caron Simply Soft yarn in a pale yellow shade.
   Thank You so much for your career in Knitting.

6. Thanks once again Staci for your generousity!

7. can’t wait to make one (and another, and another, and . . . )

   great video

   Thank you, Staci !

8. Thank you Staci! I have the perfect DK skein waiting for this in my stash! And I LOVE your nails, so beautiful in every video! You make knitting an elegant discipline. 🙂

9. Thank you, I am digging into my stash today. I think it would be a great road trip project!!

10. I’ve done this scarf before, but I forgot how to do it!

11. I’ll admit, the whole wrap & turn thing had me intimidated before. I tried doing it once, early in my learning-to-knit days, got confused, and never attempted it again. I realize now, after watching your great video, how simple it really is. Thank you for that! I can hardly wait to try this pattern. I love the idea of being able to buy a single skein of luxury yarn, and actually being able to do something pretty with it. 🙂

12. Thank you for sharing this pattern.

13. I am about halfway finished with this scarf and following the instructions carefully but mine looks like an S shape and when you straightened yours out in the video it looked like a straight line to wear as a ruffle scarf…have I done something wrong?

14. Hi Nancy – It sounds like you may have changed directions on your scarf at least once if you’re not getting the spiral/ruffle shape. I address this in the video – if you forget to work the last WS row (and knit back), you will end up with a different shape. Feel free to send me a photo if you’d like me to take a look.

    S t a c i

15. Thanks for an exceptional tutorial. The scarf is going to make a great Christmas gift. I plan to knit several. Thanks for giving us your time and expertise! Your tutorials have really helped and inspired me as well, I’m sure, many new knitters! Bless you!

16. Oh my goodness. I am just a kid and I am already fascinated by knitting because of you. This is by far the cutest scarf EVER and I’m trying to make one. I am a slow knitter and so I haven’t completed much of it yet, so wish me luck!!!

17. I love this scarf, thank you so much for sharing it with us. You are truly a gifted teacher and Fiber Artist!

18. How truly blessed we are to have you! Thank you soooo much for the amazing work you do and making everything so understandable. I am looking forward to becoming a seasoned knitter…and you are definately helping me. I am starting this project right away 🙂 Be blessed!

19. do just knit properley or do you have to do the double knitting thing

20. Hi Staci, sarted knitting late last night and dropped a stitch, am thinking should start again cos I think not that easy to pick up the stitch with the wrap and turn?

21. Love this video & pattern. I used a little bit heavier yarn but it still works fine. I always have trouble choosing the right yarn. I’m using Knitpicks swish worsted in ‘Dublin’ [what a wonderful luscious green!]

22. Love this pattern and your video is fantastic. I’m not good at picking out yarn can you give me some suggestions?

23. thank you so much for this video. I am 79 years old and have lost a week of my life trying to perfect the wrap and turn. I have watched countless other videos but this was the one that made it every clear.

24. I love this pattern. I didn’t think I wanted to spend that much for the yarn you suggested cause I wasn’t sure I could do a good job knitting it, so I chose an acrylic yarn. It actually looks pretty good except I forgot I would have to use 2 balls of yarn and joining the second ball shows on one side. Do you have any suggestions how to remedy that? Love your videos, by the way.

25. Hi Bobbie – if you understand the technique for weaving in ends, and you’re unhappy with how it looks on your scarf, the best thing I can recommend is to un-weave the end again, and try it once more. Beyond that, you may find that the look improves after you wash/block the scarf, or you can try applying some steam to it and giving it a tug to see if that helps.

    Good luck!
    S t a c i

26. This looks like a really fun scarf to knit! I have quite a large stash of yarn so I may use this pattern for that stash. Quick question, would you mind if I sold any of the items I make using your patterns? I know some people would prefer that items made from their patterns not be sold, so I just wanted to double check, just in case.

    Thanks!!!

27. Hello Ms. Staci! I’m making a spiral scarf! It is so fun!!!!!!

28. I just love this scarf! And it’s a free pattern!!! 🙂

29. thanks so much for the video and instructions for this scarf. I have been looking for such a pattern and I know that the girls in my knittng club will also want a copy of this. Thank you again

30. This looks like a great challenge for me. I wanted to do something different and this will certainly teach me something new. Thank you so much for sharing the pattern and providing a video tutorial as well 🙂

    Marie

31. Thank you very much for the videos. I do have a question. Is every “turn” necessarily a “wrap and turn”? Also, I have seen the wrap and turn as, slip stitch, bring yarn to front, then slip stitch back. Are there more than one way, and how do we know how to tell the difference. Thank you once again.

32. Sorry, I meant, in other patterns, is every turn a wrap and turn.

33. Deborah – no, not every “turn” is a “wrap and turn”. (This spiral scarf requires wrap & turns, but not every pattern does.) Your pattern should specify which one it requires.

    To answer your second question, the description you gave of the wrap is the same one I give. The only difference is that I complete the entire wrap before turning the work. Your description only gives instructions for part of it, then you turn the work, and pull the yarn forward to purl a row (or work a purl stitch, or not). Different designers/patterns call for different things. What I demonstrate is standard, and what I use in the patterns I design.

    Hope that helps!
    S t a c i

34. Thank you! Yes, this definitely helps. I love your website and often recommend it. Keep up the good work and Have A Great Day!

35. Okay, this is going to be hard to explain, and perhaps the answer should have been self-evident, but it wasn’t to me. And just for the record, this is the second spiral-type scarf I have made, using two different patterns, and neither pattern explicitly mentions this little, but essential “tip”.

    While one is knitting, the spiral naturally begins to form and spirals in one specific direction. This direction continues throughout the knitting process. This forms, for lack of a better metaphor, a bell-within-a-bell shape.

    When you have completed the scarf, however, if you hold it by the middle and let the ends hang, the last “bell” on one side is going to invert (by force of gravity) and hang rather unattractively, which caused me some consternation.

    After experiencing this twice, with the two scarves, and looking at your picture of the completed scarf, I finally figured out (well, duh) that one has to, at some point (presumably in the back of the neck area), reverse the “direction” of the spiral so that both ends look the same and the “bells” hang correctly. In effect, you turn half of the scarf inside out.

    Presumably, you figured this out during the blocking stage, after washing the scarf possibly negated the natural spiral direction. However, were one to skip blocking (a sin, I know), this “redirection” might not be so obvious.

    Thanks, and sorry my explanation was so convoluted.

36. Yes – you are correct. The scarf hangs on one side, bell-within-a-bell, then flattens out at the neck and then spins the other way, so that the two sides hang identically.

    I figured this out as I was designing it. I wasn’t able to picture how the other side would hang, so I considered knitting two identical halves and seaming them together in the center. Then, after I got a couple of feet finished, I realized that the other side could twist in the opposite direction, for a mirror-image effect.

    Thanks for the note! Sounds to me like you’ve got it all figured out.
    🙂
    S t a c i

37. Thank you for another wonderful pattern and tutorial. First, I tried the entrelac scarf (which is now more than halfway done) and now this. Fantastic!

    🙂

38. Hi I would love to make this spiral scarf on my scarf loom kit. Is it possible to make it out of the loom? If so, can you provide a step by step instructions?

    Any help is greatly appreciated,
    Mary

39. Hi Mary – sorry, I’ve never loom knitted before, and I’m totally unfamiliar with how to do it. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

    S t a c i

40. Thanks, Staci for the prompt reply. I appreciate it. No problem.

    Mary

41. Just finished my first scarf and I love it. The only thing I noticed is that about at the 8th row the stitches look like an error has been made. It was a continuing thing. Did I make a mistake?

42. Sorry the e mail was incorrect in the message I just sent.

43. Hi Susie – I can’t be sure if you made a mistake or not without seeing the scarf. If you’re happy with the way it looks, consider it a design feature!
    🙂
    S t a c i

44. Love the spiral scarf…my sister- in- law was doing one and she told me about your wonderful website. The instructional videos are super. My first scarf turned out great and I am currently working on others as gifts for Christmas.

45. Hi Staci,
    Can I use size 10.5 needles instead of size 7 or will that make a bad difference in the pattern?
    Thanks,
    Lailani

46. Lailani – your scarf will not look like the one here in the pattern photo, but you might like the way it looks. You will have to give it a try…I haven’t tried that myself.

    Good luck!
    S t a c i

47. Thanks for the prompt answer. Really appreciate it. By the way this is the 11 year old girl who made the comment on your video tutorials I case you haven’t seen the comment already. Big fan by the way.

48. One more question Staci. Is the spiral scarf good for cold weather when I use the right yarn or can I use any type of yarn?

49. I love how your presentation/tutorial. I’m doing the spiral scarf, I’m palnning to make plenty for christmas gift. I’m doing it right now. I notice as I’m going on I haven’t notice the spiral. Do I need to knit all the way after I did all the wrapth? I’m confuse. Please help me. Thank you!

50. Hi Joie – thank you for the note. Yes, you need to work the repeat several times through before you start to see the spiral. I think I had to have more than 4″ completed before it started to naturally twist. Hope that helps!
    S t a c i

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