hey everyone I'm Chris and today I'm going to show you how to take a regular scarf and turn it into an infinity scarf using a whip stitch so grab your yarn and your scarf and come join me so here I have a rather large scarf I have a very large one here so that I can show you really plainly and clearly what is happening you don't have to do this is quite a large scarf but I want to turn this into an infinity scarf what is an infinity scarf an infinity scarf is a scarf that has no end and no right side or wrong side and the way that you can do that is you can knit or crochet it that way to begin with but if you find a scarf that you love and you want to change it into an infinity scarf it's really very simple so say mom knit you or crocheted you a wonderful scarf but you don't want to have to fuss with it all the time with the ends it's really easy for you to change it so this is a flat scarf and I want to connect the ends together so I would take these two ends and put them and end but if I put them right side matching right side I'm just going to have a large two that's fine that's just an endless scarf but if you really want to make it an infinity scarf what you need to do is you're going to lay one right side up okay I'm just using my table to hook this here and then you're going to take the other side and lay it wrong side up okay so I've made a twist in my scarf along the middle here you're going to need yarn on a plastic needle this is about a really large one they come in all different sizes and I'm using a contrasting color of yarn so that you can really see what I am doing so here is where I'm going to start is I'm going to start at one end and I'm going to grab that cast on edge or that cast off it so this is either our beginning chain if you're crocheting and then our last one last row when we're finished or it's your cast on cast off if you've knit and I'm just going to grab make sure you grab a good stitch okay and you know pull that yarn through okay and leave yourself a tail you are going to have to weave in and end and then you're going to go across to the other side and find the corresponding stitch because you want everything to match up this works best if you have the same number of stitches on each end okay so see there I've gone up from the bottom across up from the bottom I'm going to go to the next stitch up from the bottom grab a stitch alright we go want to pull it and then I'm going to go to the next stitch on the opposite side and do the same thing so up from the bottom okay you want everything to line up nice and evenly that way when you get to the other end both ends match and if you're using a very large bulky yarn like I am sometimes it's hard to pull it through so let me do a couple more stitches and then I'll show you how this stitch is going to disappear so I'm going to keep doing this and I will be right back so you can see here I have kind of like a little ladder going back and forth I'm going to keep working on my ladder and then I'll show you our next step so here I've worked about half way across here and I just wanted to show you you can see here the ladder that I'm making back and forth back and forth always going from the bottom across from the bottom across so I'm kind of just weaving back and forth and basically just making new stitches and what you'll see here is if you pull I can pull from both ends here so here I'm pulling from both ends and aside from the fact that I used a contrasting yarn you can barely see what I've done and you can see here that my rows continue to match up so that is how to whip stitch this together I'm going to go ahead and finish this and show you what it's like once I weave in the end you'll never see it you can see on the back here we just have a little bit of a seam there but that's just because we're using a big thick bulky yarn here to show you what's really going on but there you go that's how to whip stitch and I'll be right back to show you to finish product so one final tip when you're whip stitching your ends together is that you can see here that my rows continue to match up I've done a good job on that but you can see the seam area is maybe just a little bit wider than the rest of the scarf and that's because we do tend to stretch it out to try and find where we should do our stitches so everything matches up and my pointer there is to just make sure that you give this one extra little tug but not to tug it so much that you scrunch everything together so you can see here I over over tightened this stitch so you just want to just give it a nice gentle tug to make sure everything is nice and even you've kept the gauge the same throughout your project and you can see here there is your ends so you have taken a plain scarf and turned it into an infinity scarf and it was really easy it took me about five minutes to do so it's really not that hard all you have to do now is weave in these ends and you're all set as you can see I now have a finished infinity scarf I no longer have any ends that are going to get caught everywhere and I have the seam here in the middle where you can see it can you see it you can't because we did a whip stitch and it came together quickly and easily if you have any questions or comments please leave them down below and we'll get back to you have some fun bye bye