
Two-Layer Turtleneck Scarf Sewing Tutorial and NEW! Patriotic Stretch Jersey Knit Pack Now Available at ShopNZP.com
Sew our super-quick Two-Layer Turtleneck Scarf for chilly spring days, and have built-in convenience for pulling scarf up over nose and mouth during brisk morning walks or when circumstances arise during times of social-distancing. Make multiple Turtleneck Scarves with our beautiful Stretch Jersey Knit Color Palette Packs – curated by the Stitch it! Sisters. Our Two-Seam Turtleneck Scarf Serger Overlock Sewing Tutorial is a great beginner sewing project!
Our Two-Layer Turtleneck Scarf can be sewn in just 30-minutes, from just one jersey-knit fabric rectangle, a serger overlock machine, and our easiest-ever sewing techniques, below!
Be sure to choose a quality Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric with 5% Spandex for your Turtleneck Scarf sewing project. This lightweight stretch cotton knit fabric provides a smooth hand, stylish drape, and about a 50% four-way stretch — for added comfort. Now available in 17 colors! And, check out our New! Patriotic Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric Pack now available at ShopNZP.com!
Two-Layer Turtleneck Scarf Sewing Tutorial by Nancy Zieman Productions
Approximate Finished Size 9-1/2″ Wide x 8-1/2 Long.
The NZP Team is designing projects and patterns to be sewn with Nancy Zieman’s innovative sewing techniques. Within each of our blog sewing tutorials and patterns, we give you construction tips and specific sewing hints, along with tool tips to make sewing fun and enjoyable – even for beginners. You’ll find that in a matter of minutes, you can sew fashion accessories – like our favorite Turtleneck Scarf!
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Two-Layer Turtleneck Scarf Sewing Tutorial
Supplies Listing:
- 1/2 yd. Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Spring Tape Measure
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Heart-Shaped Pins
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Fabric Marking Pen
- Clover’s 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape
- June Tailor’s Quilters Starch Savvy
- Schmetz Size 80/12 Jersey Chrome Sewing Machine Needles
- Metrosene Plus Sewing Thread
- Iron
- Optional: Machine Needle Threader
Choose Your Turtleneck Scarf Size
Using a tape measure, measure forehead circumference – just above eyebrows: If forehead circumference measures 20-1/2″- 21-1/2″ make a size Small/Medium Turtleneck Scarf. If forehead circumference measures 21-1/2″-22-1/2″ make a size Medium/Large Turtleneck Scarf. We’re making a size Small/Medium Turtleneck Scarf in this sewing tutorial.
Prepare & Cut Fabric
Prepare your fabrics! Pre-treat fabric by steaming and pressing, then, stabilize fabrics for the sewing process by pressing and starching fabrics with June Tailor’s Quilters Starch Savvy. Press and starch, press and starch.
- Cut One Fabric Rectangle 18″ long by 21″ wide for size Small/Medium. Be sure to cut the fabric rectangle with the greatest fabric stretch across the 21″ width. (For Size XS/Small cut one fabric rectangle 18″ long by 20″ wide. For size Medium/Large, cut one fabric rectangle 18″ long by 23″ wide: for a 10-1/2″ wide x 8-1/2 long finished scarf).
- NOTE: Deanna, from Team NZP, stitched a Turtleneck Scarf for her husband – with One Fabric Rectangle measuring 22-1/2″ long by 23-1/2″ wide – cut from 5/8 yd Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric. Or, you may be the designer and choose your own custom fabric rectangle size!
Stitch Turtleneck Scarf
- Fold fabric rectangle, right sides together, meeting 21″ long edges. Pin.
Our Turtleneck Scarf is the perfect project to stitch with a serger overlock machine! Place pins parallel to cut edges – when stitching with a serger.
- Insert a new Schmetz Size 80/12 Jersey Chrome Sewing Machine Needle, and stitch seam with sewing machine set for a zig-zag wobble stitch, or stitch with an overlock stitch on a serger. Press seam flat, then press open or press to one side.
- Fold fabric tube, right sides together, stacking and aligning stitched seam and cut edges. Pin.
- Measure and mark a 2-1/2″-3″ opening along cut edges, staying an inch or more away from seam.
- Stitch seam with serger – leaving an opening at markings.

- Turn Scarf right side out through seam opening.

- Optional: Fuse a 3″ strip of Clover’s 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape to one inner seam allowance, at seam opening and fuse seam closed. Or, stitch opening closed with a sewing machine straight stitch, zigzag stitch, or hand stitching.
- Change thread colors, and serge another turtleneck scarf!

- Cut threads above upper thread guides.
- Cut threads at needles, raise presser foot, and pull to remove all four cut threads.
- Change serger cone thread spools.
- On the Bernette b64 AIRLOCK Serger, slide the Air Threader Connector to ON. Insert thread into Air Threader Nozzles and press the round Air Threader Button (upper right photo).
- Thread Needles with the help of a Machine Needle Threader.
- Remove Slide-on Flatbed Table and Freearm Cover to reveal the freearm!
When stitching with a serger with a free arm, stitch turtleneck seam with the presser foot on the outside of the circular seam!
Two-Layer Turtleneck Scarf Supplies Listing
Supplies Listing:
- 1/2 yd. Stretch Jersey Knit Fabric
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Spring Tape Measure
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Heart-Shaped Pins
- Clover’s I Sew For Fun Fabric Marking Pen
- Clover’s 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape
- June Tailor’s Quilters Starch Savvy
- Schmetz Size 80/12 Jersey Chrome Sewing Machine Needles
- Metrosene Plus Sewing Thread
- Iron
- Optional: Machine Needle Threader
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CLOVIS
Great colors. I made five of the Turtle Neck Scarves from the October 10th blog.
BevM
The scarves look comfortable, but hopefully soon we will no longer need to use them as masks!
Susan
NEW! Patriotic Knit Jersey Fabric Pack, Turtlneck Scarf Sewing Tutorial provided great tips & the fabric is very appealing!
Gail
The scarves are a great idea.