Part 4 of No Tie Chemo Scarf

Gather on the gathering line, pull the thread until you reach the mark you made on the thread at 10". Knot the thread. Arrange the gathers evenly, it helps to use a ruler and the pin marking the center of scarf as reference.



Cut a piece of 1/2'' wide elastic at 7''. Mark the center and 1 1/2'' from each end.

Pin the elastic on the wrong side of scarf on the gathering line, lining up the center marks and leaving the 1 1/2'' ends hanging over.

Carefully put the scarf under sewing machine as to not to disturb the gathers. Hold on to the 1 1/2'' end of elastic and stretch out the elastic from the center mark. Backtack and sew a regular stitch while keeping the elastic taught.

Backstitch at the end and you should end up with this.

Trim the ends of elastic, you may use Fraycheck to prevent fraying. And you're done!



Part 3 of No Tie Chemo Scarf

Cut the pattern on the gathering line. Place on the wrong side of your fabric taking into account that you have already turned up the 1'' hem. Mark around the pattern piece.



















Flip pattern over and repeat for the other half.



















Mark the center of the scarf with a pin.




















Prepare a piece of thread for hand gathering by knotting it and measuring and marking it at 10".

Hand gather by using 3/4'' basting stitches on the line you marked.

Part 2 of No Tie Chemo Scarf

Trim off the triangles.

Finish off the rest of the raw edges. I used the rolled hem stitch on a serger. I find it very difficult to make the small turns on the tip of the scarf tails, but you can round off the tips some more to make it easier. You can also use bias tape or fold over elastic to finish the edges, do not use the rounded tips on the pattern if using that method.





Part 1 of No Tie Chemo Scarf

Please use these alternative patterns http://snipriphooray.blogspot.com/2018/02/substitute-patterns-for-pre-tied.html

Tutorial for No Tie chemo Scarf.
You may read here why the patterns are no longer free/available
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The pattern for personal use or for charitable purposes, you may not sell the pattern or items made from it.

You will need:
1/2 yard (18 inches) medium to lightweight knit fabric at least 46" wide
(If you are making more than one scarf then you can nestle the pattern pieces and you will need less fabric per scarf)
7'' of 1/2 inch wide elastic
thread
hand sewing needle
sewing machine
serger (optional)
mad skills (only kidding)

Print out all the pattern pieces. Set your printer to "no-scaling". Use the " 2" test square" to make sure you pattern printed out correctly.




















Cut out pattern pieces and tape them together lining up the letters and diamonds.




































Place pattern on fold of fabric.

Cut out leaving the shaded triangle.

Finish the straight edge by serging or use zig-zag or other stitch on your regular machine. Finishing the raw edge is not mandatory since most knits will not fray.

Fold 1'' hem to the wrong side of your fabric, press and stitch. You can use the stretch stitch, zig-zag, double needle - anything that will take a little bit of stretch.

Trim off the little shaded triangle area from the pattern. You can do that by placing a ruler on the scarf tail and marking a line on the hem. Or you can cut the triangle out from the pattern, fold up the hem on the pattern and place the pattern on your fabric and marking the line.