Effort outfits Super Bowl volunteers with scarves - Aiken Standard- how to knit

INDIANAPOLIS — A nationwide army of knitters, crocheters and weavers has created more than 13,000 blue-and-white scarves to help keep Super Bowl volunteers warm and highly visible when the big game comes to this cold-weather city. Thousands of scarf-makers, from great-grandmothers to prison inmates, put in hours of work on the 6-foot-long scarves. Each scarf is adorned with an official Super Bowl host-city patch - all sewn on by inmates at the Indiana Women's Prison. Meanwhile, a group of inmates at a state prison in Indianapolis who call themselves the Naptown Knitters were learning how to knit, guided by prison volunteer Doreen Tatnall. Steve Jordan, a 44-year-old from Kokomo who is due for release the day after the Super Bowl, made three scarves and said he would have made more if not for a prison rule forbidding inmates from taking their plastic knitting needles back to their cells. She also knit a striped, blue-and-white "Uni-Scarf" jumpsuit for the Indianapolis Colts' mascot, a horse named Blue, to promote the Super Scarves project.

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