Lisbeth - recycled and upcycled rag knitted scarf

I love the combination of chocolate and raspberry, both in a culinary sense and when it comes to combining colours.

I also love to recycle then upcycle fabrics, and play around with textures and colours.

Lisbeth is my latest rag knitting scarf, with an op shop shredded sheet as a base, knitted with a sequin yarn and a lovely alpaca blend in raspberry and chocolate. I’ve made this scarf a little shorter, so you double it up and put the flower at the end. It’s probably more like a cowl or scarflet, though it’s still around five feet long.

The flower has five layers, one made out of the shredded sheet, and the centre picking up more of this theme. The flower looks good enough to eat.

I’ve put a long fringe on one of the long sides, to enhance the notion of doubling the scarf over to wear it as a cowl.

There are 12 stitches and three strands of yarns/sheets. It’s done in garter stitch (plain, pearl), and took around 100 metres of each of the three yarns to make.

You can see more recycled and upcycled scarves on my etsy site.

Lisbeth - rag knitting scarf, front view