A Lined Scarf

Last year, I shortened an orange floral skirt for a friend, leaving me with the bottom of it in my stash.  Now that I'm determined to clear out my stash, I pair the skirt bottom with a bit of orange charmeuse, and make a lined scarf!  It's really simple; I'll show you. 

The skirt fabric feels like rayon, and the lining fabric is a synthetic charmeuse.  The satin side is unpleasantly shiny and prone to snags, so I use the crepe side as the front; I like the sublter sheen. 

Exterior

Interior

I start by ironing and making long rectangles of the skirt bottom and the lining fabric.  I rip the charmeuse to ensure an even shape, and then pin it atop the floral fabric, right sides together. 

As I pin, I leave a gap between doubled red pins.  The doubled red pins are my start and stop points when I sew, so when I'm done I have a hole between them that I can use to turn the scarf right side out. 

As I sew, starting at one doubled pin and going the long way 'round to the other one, I use regular stitch length (2.5 on my machine) until I get to the corners.  As I approach the corners, I reduce my stitch length to 1.5, then 1, turn the corner, and ramp back up to 2.5.  The smaller stitches in the corner make it neater when I turn the thing right side out. 

I press the seams, clip the corners, and trim the excess seam allowances.  Then I turn it right side out, and press the seams at the edges to make a neat flat scarf.  When I'm done that, there's just the hole to close up. 

trimming seam allowances

Ironed, looking at the hole

I close the hole with slip stitches, and press it all once more.  The finished scarf is ready to be given to my friend... won't she be surprised to see her skirt scraps return to her in this form! 

The picture fails to convey how nice the scarf feels; it's slippery and wonderful!