Qu’est-ce que c’est bleu-blanc-rouge, et très chaud? – Un foulard Habs super!
Shortly before Christmas, I was browsing Craftster and I saw this cool project. (If I had a dollar for every time I’ve started a conversation with, “Ohmygosh, someone on Craftster just…”, I could retire.) These Harry Potter scarves were the perfect, inexpensive, last-minute Christmas gift, and my reaction was both swift and dual: “Those are so great!…But I don’t know any Harry Potter fans.” I think my cousin had read the books, but I have no idea if she’s still into that stuff, and certainly wouldn’t know what her favourite Quiddich team was. Is one house inherently better than the others? (My senior accountant later told me no, that one would simply identify with a house whose values/characteristics/etc. reflected one’s own, but I was done my Christmas shopping by then anyway, so it became a moot point.)
I couldn’t get those scarves out of my head, though. “I bet you could do that with CFL team colours,” I mused, “or any team, really.” And so it was decided that my dad, who normally eschews those crazy pieces of winter gear designed to keep one warm, needed a scarf in Montreal Canadiens colours. (Er, couleurs.)
It’s long enough to be wrapped around and cover nose/mouth/neck/entire head (probably)….
….but has groovy fringed ends for a jaunty look.
(As you can see, he took his modelling job very seriously, with his Béliveau jersey and matching socks.)
A rotary cutter made cutting the oodles and oodles of fleece rectangles a fairly quick job. Sewing them all together and tying off about a million thread ends (whyyyy does he like a team with more than two colours?) was…not as quick, but the end result is absolutely worth it. This thing is warm, and darned eye-catching, if I say so myself.
His jersey might have a 4 on it, but when I first set about making this, I had nicknamed it the Subban scarf: the original instructions, before taking seam allowances into account, used 76 inches of fleece. 🙂
The Witty Child 