By the numbers World’s largest scarves

173,884.5: Length in feet of world’s largest scarf, a record held by the Welsh

39,962.6: Length in feet (as of December 2005) of scarf knit by Stitched Up Festival, an Australian textile group trying to beat the record

2008: Year Stitched Up hopes to beat the Welsh

10: Number of years they will have spent knitting

Source: stitchedupfestival.com