 Hi, you guys. Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside to Him. Welcome back to my DIY gift series. My next DIY gift idea is something you might have made for someone before, but I'm showing you the new and improved 2019 version. I'm talking scarves and specifically the pull through scarf. So in terms of DIY scarves, we've been going through a bit of transition over the years. First, there was the infinity scarf. How many of those did you make a couple of years ago? Then we had the blanket scarf craze. I could never really get into that one. It was just like too much fabric around my neck. Well, the it scarf for 2019 is the pull through scarf. I've mostly seen it in faux fur, which is super luxe, but there's also the ever popular chunky sweater knit version. And I've even seen it in shirling, super cozy. But today I'm going to show you how to make one in flannel with the fringe, edges, and everything. So let's get to the tutorial. All right. So first things first, you can see I'm using a scrap of fabric. So I had to piece two large pieces together. If that's what you're doing, good for you. Way to recycle that fabric. So all I did was zigzag stitch and then pressed it to one side and then top stitch. That's how I pieced my pieces together. And now I have a fabric that is kind of a very wide rectangle and I want it to be a little bit more narrow. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut it in half against the grain. So like long ways, I guess the rectangle is going to be long and skinny rather than like wide. I think that that will look better for the scarf. But you know, put your piece of fabric around you and do whatever you like best or whatever you think the person that you're making this for will like best. I just think a longer skinnier one is better for this style for the pull through style. So that's why I'm going to do it on this one. So I've just folded it in half, the short side in half, yes. And so halfway is like, I don't know, kind of halfway in the middle of this like stripe or plaid or whatever you want to call it, this one here. So I am going to follow that line and cut down the center of my fabric. And I'm kind of just eyeballing it because we're going to fringe all of this anyways. So it doesn't have to be perfect, but if you're someone that likes for it to be perfect by all means, make it perfect. Do whatever you like and whatever you will be proud to give away on Christmas morning. And this might even be one of those that you can rip. Like I said, we are going to be fringing it anyways. Should I rip it? I don't know what that's going to do the edge. Let's do it. Let's go for it. I'm committed. I'll have to cut through my seam that I made, but that's okay. All right. That was easy. Now I have two pieces. Sometimes it can like distort the edge. But again, because we're fringing it, I think that it's fine. Okay. So now I have a long skinny rectangle and you want to find one part of like you want to find the halfway mark, I guess the quarter way mark. So halfway is where my seam is and now I'm going to find the quarter way mark. And this is where we are going to put in our little hole so that we can do the pull through. And again, this is personal preference. Some people have it, you know, to the few inches from the edge. Some people have it higher. It's just depends on how much you want it up on your neck. So once you determine that, you are going to need to either get another scrap of fabric or just cut off part of the end of your fabric here. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to ditch the salvage and cut just along this line here. You're not going to miss it much. This is already a long scarf. I can do the same thing to the other end like so. And again, just find a line and follow along there. Perfect. Okay. So go back to your quarter mark. And what we're going to do is basically the beginnings of like a welt. So we're going to sew this right sides together. Let me cut this a little bit smaller, which trying to think it doesn't really matter because it's going to be on the wrong side. But I do want it to look nice on the wrong side still. So let me cut off the salvage completely. And then I'm just going to save the red and then the two on the either side. And that'll give me a little more than one, two, three, four, five, five and a half inches. So I can do a five inch pull through. That sounds good. I swear I've done this. I'm not just completely winging it, but I think each plaid is kind of different and unique all on its own. So I don't know, it's kind of a little bit of winging each time. But basically what you're going to do is lay down the scrap of fabric. You're going to go to your serger first and serger around all four sides, or you can use pinking shears, whichever you prefer. Then you're going to lay this along the center of your fabric. And you are going to sew a rectangle all around all four sides of the scrap of fabric. So let me show you what that looks like. Okay, so you can see I've got my little rectangle. I serged all around all four sides. And I've got a little box in the middle. My box is about half an inch from the raw edges. You really don't need the inside of the box to be that big because it's not like a button has to go through it. We're just slipping through the fabric through it. So it doesn't have to be that wide. I mean, it can just be like this is probably half an inch wide this way and probably five and a half inches long. But again, the length can vary too. So just use your creative freedom. This isn't super serious. But now you're cutting through both layers, just like you do for a welt pocket. Cut about a quarter inch away from the edge of your box and then snip into those corners. Same thing on the other side, you're cutting again through both layers. And you want to cut two but not through the stitching in the corner. All right, and then now you are flipping this to the wrong side of your scarf. And if you don't have a seam like me, then your right and wrong side probably look pretty similar. So you're going to pull this all out of the hole that you cut it and take it over to your ironing board and press all of these seams open and flat so that your rectangle is flat on the wrong side. A little hard to do without an ironing board, but something like this. All right, so take it over to your iron and get all that pressed nice and neat. And then go back to your sewing machine and top stitch this whole thing down. And you are going to be able to see that top stitching from the right side. So be sure you have a thread that looks really pretty with your scarf fabric. All right, there we have it. We have our little keyhole opening completely sewn. And you kind of get the idea that you're going to take your end of your scarf and it gets pulled through the keyhole like so. And now you have a cute little pull through scarf. Okay, and to make the raw edges look a little bit more intentional and a little bit more cozy and fall like, we are going to fringe out our edges. So I like for the long edges of the fabric to have like a short half an inch fringe. And then I like for the short edges to have a really long, like I don't know how many inches is this probably up to this line here. So that is four inch fringe, but feel free to go even longer. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my sewing machine and I'm actually going to stitch a stitching line half an inch away from both of the long edges. And then you don't have to do one on the short edge because the fringe is so long, you don't really run the risk of it coming undone anymore. But if you want to be extra careful, you can go ahead and do a stitching line there as well. So let me get those two lines in and I'll show you the easiest way to make fringe. Okay, there we have it. You can see my stitching line half an inch from both sides of the long edge. And if you're making this along with me, you can already tell that the threads are wanting to be pulled out anyways. And you can tell I'm just kind of using my fingernail to pull it out. You can also grab a seam ripper, which I know we all have. Here's mine. You can use an awl, you can use a weeder if you have like a Cricut machine or something. But you can tell I'm just pulling these threads one layer at a time. And it's creating this really cool fringe effect all along the raw edge. So you're just going to keep pulling these out until you reach your stitching line. Try not to get ahead of yourself. Don't do two at once. It's one of those things kind of like making the palm palms last week where you just want to sit in front of the TV, watch your hallmark movies, get a little trash can like a bathroom trash can nearby and just start pulling these out. Okay, now for the long edge or for the short edge, we're going to do the really long trim. I have a special technique for that which I think makes faster work of it. But basically what I want to do is cut this into, I don't know, like quarters maybe, and I want to cut up to where I want the fringe to stop like this and then do it halfway between there and halfway between here. And this way, as you're getting really deep into the scarf, you only have these little sections to pull out rather than the full width of your scarf. And it's just, it goes by a little bit faster just to pull out little five or six inch sections at a time rather than the whole entire width of the scarf. Does that make sense? So I think this goes by a lot faster if you can cut it and break it up into little sections. And then over here, I shouldn't have stitched past this line. So I'm going to have to pull out all these stitches from here back, but that's okay. I didn't back stitch or anything. So they should come out pretty easily depending on how my sewing machine did. Yeah, there's no there's no thread or anything or nest, I mean. Anyways, you get the idea. So here we go. Let's let's start fringing the scarf. So I got one little section of the short side done and half of the long side done. And you can see kind of what's happening with the fringe with the short side. So cute. And then the long side. So the long side, you can take the time to twist like two or three of them together at once. Mine are kind of doing their own little twisty thing, which I kind of don't hate. So I might just leave that and see what happens. But if you want to take this a step further and personalize it, which makes it extra special for Christmas and sort of like, I definitely didn't just buy this at Nordstrom, you can put some embellishments on it. So I think for me, I am going to put a monogram using my Cricut iron on vinyl. You could also find like, I don't know if you have some like brooches or something that's like an heirloom something, even if you just got it at like the flea market or an estate sale or something, like a cluster of brooches on a scarf, I think is so beautiful. And kind of if it's your own brooches, that's definitely very meaningful to be able to pass that along and whatnot. But it's a pretty straightforward project. And now you can just have a lot of fun embellishing. However, you see that and whatever you think the recipient of the gift will really like. So there you have it. My second DIY gift idea, super easy, right? Also super affordable one yard of fabric, search the remnant bins and make it for really cheap. If you want some more ideas, stay tuned to this channel every Saturday this month and be sure to check out last week's video featuring pom poms. There's a ton of info about this tutorial in the description box. So be sure to check that out. And if you aren't already, please subscribe. It really means so much to me. Raise your hand in the comment section below to let me know if you're a new sub so I can give you a personal welcome. But that's going to do it for me today. Thank you so much for watching, and I will see you all very soon. Bye.