Funky Fleecy Robot Scarf

When the weather turned cold after christmas, my 2 year old saw my scarf and wanted a scarf of his own. The boy loves robots (who doesn't!) and I had a vision of a cute little robot decorating his new scarf. I had some leftover brown fleece and a piece of white fleece felt, and some embroidery thread, so I figured, why not prototype it out and see what I could come up with!

After much trial and error, and an evening's work, this is the result. The Claude-Bot* Scarf!
I figured others could take this idea and do even more with it, so I'm posting it here...

As you can see, he was thrilled with it!

*why Claude-bot? Doesn't this bot just look like a "Claude"?

Step 1 Materials

Fleece--whatever color you like-- I'd start with at least 6 in of width available, depending on the weight of the fleece. You'll cut it down in step 4 to the width you want.
For this project I chose a thick brown fleece leftover from halloween. Since this was a kids scarf, I just made the length the width of the bolt, about 4 feet. For an adult scarf, you would want to do longer, maybe double that.

Fleece felt square (or regular felt) in the color you want to make your robot.
I had found some white fleece felt squares at the craft store, so that's what I used. If you can't find fleece felt I'm sure you can do this with a thin piece of fleece, or with regular felt.

Embroidery floss, multiple colors.
For this prototype, I used lime green for the robot features, gold for the border, and white for his arms. In retrospect, I think I darker color than lime green would have worked better for more contrast.

Comments

[jessyratfink]

Oh, that's so cute! He's so happy!

[GorillazMiko]

Haha, he looks really happy in the last picture. I love this Instructable, because I love robots, they just amaze me. That would have been awesome if you did the Instructables Robot! Great job by the way.