I want an oversize chunky hand knit long scarf.......

[Maryqueenofchocs]

Anyone seen anything like this which is not so expensive.....

diesel £85

I have been searching today to no avail...any help appreciated..

Yes knit one, you could get some really good quality wool for a fraction of that price. Looks to me as if it's in a knit 2 purl 1 rib, on very big needles.

OK, you've lost me....knit 2 purl 1 rib???????? thats why I am willing to buy it, double dutch to me!

www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/craftjesselu?ref=mf check out this person, its a friend of a friend who knits to order!

You could knit it... I am really rubbish at arty/crafty things, and I managed to knit myself a scarf with the help of youtube videos, and this book, which assumes you know nothing.

However, nice wool is bloody expensive, and this looks like it'll need loads... eg i knitted my sister a big scarf for Xmas, took 6 x balls @ £7.50 each. Unless there is a place that sells nice wool cheaply that people haven't told me about?

They've sold them in Warehouse and Accessorize in past winters. Maybe wait a month til the autumn/winter stock is in and check out both.

Have you got a nice national trust property near you?

I got a fabulous hand spun and hand knitted hat from one for a tenner

OMG FGM that North Circular site is truly to die for....want so many things but cannot bring myself to spend £150 on a scarf...

I need a knitting granny, both my grannies are gone, they would have knitted me one......maybe i'll contact shreddies.

Got one in Accessorize last year, mine was grey though. No idea about this year, I'm not that organised!

Ooh just found this.....what do you think, is it chunky enough?

top shop

It's OK, but real hand knit just looks and feels better. As the others have said you could knock one together yourself for less than a tenner in less than a week . Take inspiration from this fruitcake lady... or just beg someone in a knitting circle or the nice ladies at the haberdashery counter. Report back!

Next had some like that last year, not as chunky but you get a hat too, only £16!

Did anyone see that programme with Jo Malone where people try and get an idea off the ground?

There was a lovely woman on there who made the most gorgeous handknitted chunky scarves.

I really can't remember what the programme was called or where they were going to be stocked.

There seems to be more snoods about this year, maybe you are to early? If you wait a month or so there will be more. And it might be cold enough to wear it then too!

Rather embarrassingly, I spent £90 on a really long Paul and Joe chunky knit cream scarf for dp a few years ago. Anyway, he hates it (moults), I love it, result all round really!

Summery That programme inspired me to ask Granny-in-law to knit me a scarf like that.
Not got it yet though, [huffy emoticon]

I think Joseph were going to stock that lady's scarves.Might be wrong though.

Enough high-end super-chunky 100% wool to make a scarf like that will cost you about £50 to £80. Much cheaper to go for acrylic. Needles will be about a fiver.

Honestly - I'd pay the £85 for that scarf! if you can't be arsed finding the wool, getting the advice and not believing how much you will need, having to go back to the shop to get more because you ran out, learning to knit, actually doing the knitting, getting bored and putting it away until you can face it again...

And I like knitting.

Original £85 scarf is not 100% wool (its 81%). So wool/acrylic mix would be cheaper.

UnePrune - buying a bit of wool and knitting a scarf is a half hour trip to the wool shop and a couple of evenings in front of the telly knitting, not the fashion equivalent of climbing Everest .

Mary - children can knit, so can you if you put your mind to it. (And you can buy something else with the change from £85)

Well I bow to your speedy knitting ability

I thought I'd knit my own scarf in my prenancy knitting phase.
It cost a bloody fortune, once I got past £25 of wool I gave up knowing that I wasn't even half way through it!

I'd wait too, loads more to come soon.

Summery that is the EXACT programme I have been trying to remember, thank you! I want one of her scarves...I really do.

Knitting gauntlet may have been thrown, i'm just not convinced with a toddler + 7yr old + running my own business it is going to work?!? I will think it over, check out some knitting patterns and get back to you.

OMG - did I just say I would check out some knitting patterns......ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!

Look what I just found!!

Beryl Ware Scarves / Jigsaw

UnePrune - I'd have been useful in a guillotine crowd. But I see I have sown a little seed in Mary's mind - my work here is done!

OK, £85, I think, is not terrible value for a scarf that is mostly wool - wool is expensive these days, global market and all that, and you have to consider the work put in (that size would be more than a couple of evenings' work unless you have literally nothing else to do between 7pm and midnight) and the cost of wool in wool shops if you're doing it yourself. I'd want to know where it's knitted, though. If it's made in a country where someone will have got peanuts for it I'd be wary.

But £167 is really pushing it. It's narrower than the £85 one as well. I felt bad for the old ladies who're making her the money.

Sophie Digard stuff costs an absolute bomb and is hand made in Madagascar, I think. I hope those Madagascans get paid a decent wage.

Mary- I want that scarf now. It was on a promotion thing but not yet on website. And now you've doubled your original scarf budget, arf!

I did knit when I was pregnant w DD1 and working. Now as FTM to 2 toddlers I have no less time and energy to knit. I love hand knits on my LOs but just can't find the time now.