The snood, or moebius scarf is being heralded as the item you need to have for the Fall and Winter season. You can make one of these endless scarves from a scarf you already have! You can have a great shopping spree at a thrift store choosing scarves to recycle into snoods. You can make Christmas gifts that are right on the cutting edge of this trend, and you will impress your friends!
Rachel Dodes has an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Can the Snood Save Christmas?” The retailers are hoping that in a depressed economy, having one new item that has not previously been commonly available will boost sales during the holiday sales. This scarf-hood combination quickly updates an existing wardrobe. Ms. Dodes shows us all the different snoods available, ranging in price from $28 to $695. Snoods are sold by Burberry, Missoni, Chan Lau, The Limited, Banana Republic, Ash & Dans, American Apparel, and Donna Karan. There is a link to a slide show on the Wall Street Journal Web site. She has a nice overview of the history of the snood, and I recommend you check it out.
If you are a knitter, these scarves are nothing new. We have had moebius scarves for a long time. These newer scarves do not seem to have a twist in them like many of the knitting and crochet patterns for endless scarves do.
These scarves are available out of knit and crochet or just fabric. I have made one out of a silk scarf I had in the closet. You could also make a snood out of a knitted or crocheted scarf you have at home, too.
The lengths of these snood scarves varies, so yours does not have to be any certain length. My scarf was 5 feet long and 13″ wide. You could use a longer scarf or narrower. It won’t wrap twice and drape if it is much shorter than that. There are some very long ones being worn and some moderate length ones around 5 -6 feet that wrap only twice. You could do a shorter one , letting it hang like a cowl neck. The average knit ones are at least 5-6 feet long and 8 inches wide.
If you are using a silk scarf to make a snood, sew the edges together with an overcast stitch. (See Illustration 1.) Use matching thread, and place wrong sides together. Take small overcast stitches through the little handkerchief hems on the edge.
If you are using a knit or crochet scarf, you will need to remove the fringe from the ends, if it has some. These are usually not difficult to remove. Using matching yarn or thread, sew the ends together. You can crochet these together, or graft them using various knitting techniques, if you know how. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. If you don’t have matching thread, you can use the yarn that you removed as fringe and sew it together.
The longer the scarf, the more fashionable when you make a snood from it. if you want to crochet a scarf quickly, there is a link for a scarf you can make in one night.
Rachel Dodes, Retailers Sell Snoods for the Holidays, Wall Street Journal
