Cut scarf makes head wrap or tunic post 633 by Angela Lansbury

 I wanted a new warm headscarf made from a learge scarf with a hole or slit cut in the middle.  My first thought was to vut a semi circular hole using  a saucer, then a slit vertivally in the centre front. Then I though that an existing hat .

What could I do with the cut out circle? Make two half moon pockets? Or rabbit ears?

Would the circle be large enough? I used a pink knitted beanie hat as a template. But why spoil the scarf by cutting out a circle? A straight line cut is easier to sew inconspicuously if you want to shorten the slit or cancel it completely.

I thought of using newspaper to create a pattern, held together with sticky tape. That what I learned at the Australian women's association sewin.g group in Singapore. One of the members was malaysian. She said that in Malaysia, the average or poor family does not go to the expensive of buying comercial paper patterns, which in any case are Western style. Malasian clothes for women are ankle length.  This has the advantage of making the wearer look taller.

I took an old scarf to practise on. Good idea. At first it seemed a good idea. What could go wrong?  Whatever can go wrong will do so, Murphy's law. 

However, the slit I cut was far too large. Like a. Boat neck. I should have cut it half size first. You can always cut more.but cutting too much involves sewing up againn.

Scissors at the ready.

The cut large scarf

becomes a tunic, gold cut scarf over blue Indigo Moon top.

The scarf can be worn over your head and wrapped around your neck and left hanging over your shoulders and down your back.

 You could wrap over just one shoulder.

I haven't sewn on any closure such as buttons nor a ribbon loop. Nor velcro. Nor added a ring scarf clib. Not even a scarf pin, coloured safety pin, fancy brooch or tie pin. I have just folded it over.