When worked with fine yarn, this pattern will give an elegant and light scarf that stands out well against a contrasting shirt. With thicker yarn, the scarf feels cozier and is a faster, beginner-friendly project. The design fits all lengths and widths and makes a great gift.
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Steps
Step 1. Choose your materials
This pattern is easy to adapt, it's the right one to do with some wool left over from another job or found cheap at a garage sale or thrift store.
- The scarf in these photos was made with mercerized cream cotton, found in a second hand shop. There is no label indicating weight or thickness, a weight that feels comfortable will do.
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Image Small crochet works well with thin yarn. A very small crochet hook was used for this scarf. Use the crochet hook that goes well with the yarn of your choice.
- Remember that thin yarn and fine crochet hooks require a lot more stitches to make a scarf of the desired length.
Step 2. Make a slip knot
Step 3. Three chain stitches
Step 4. Double crochet in the first stitch of the chain stitch
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Image The first eyelet. This creates the first eyelet which will serve as the base for the scarf.
Step 5. Three more chain stitches
Step 6. Do a double crochet in the third stitch from the hook
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Image The second eyelet. This creates the second eyelet.
Step 7. Make as many other eyelets, each like the second one
Make three chain stitches and one treble crochet in the third chain stitch from the hook.
- This row of eyelets will run down the middle of the scarf, so make the row of eyelets as long as you want the scarf to be too. The finished length will be a little more, given both the width of all the lines you decide to crochet and the fringes or tassels you decide to add at the end.
- The scarf pictured above has 66 eyelets and is approximately 120cm long. The other photos of the article instead are of a shorter sample, made to show how the piece is worked.
Step 8. Three chain stitches
This chain will start on the first round and count as the first double crochet in the first set.
Step 9. Make two double crochets in the center of the first buttonhole
Note that you are not working in one stitch but around the center of the buttonhole.
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Image The first "together". This creates the first "ensemble" and starts the first round. The first set of each round is three chain stitches and two double crochets.
Step 10. A chain
This gives space between adjacent sets.
Step 11. Make three more double crochet stitches in the same buttonhole, then chain stitch
This creates the second set.
- This buttonhole will eventually have a total of three sets, because it is the final one but it only starts with two now, while the third one you do at the end of the round.
- Don't chain three to start another set; do this only for the first set of a new round.
Step 12. Go back along the row of eyelets making an ensemble in each
Make three double crochets in each buttonhole and then a chain stitch to get to the next buttonhole.
Step 13. Make three sets in the buttonhole at the end of the row and turn the work so that the bottom now points up
Step 14. Make a set (3 double crochets, 1 chain stitch) along the other side of each buttonhole in the other direction
Step 15. Work a third set in the last buttonhole
Step 16. Make a chain stitch and join with a slip stitch to the top of the chain stitch that started this round
This completes the first round.
Step 17. Chain three to begin the second round
This counts as the first treble crochet of the first set.
Step 18. Work two double crochets in the space left by the chain stitch from the previous round
This completes the first set of the second round. This is a corner, so it will eventually have a second set, but it will be the last set in this round.
Step 19. Work two sets into the opening that creates the next corner
Step 20. Work the second round, piecing the sets together in each opening left by the chain on the previous round
All corner spaces will have two sets and all edges and openings will have one.
Step 21. At the end of each round do a second set, do a second set in the corner where you started
Make a chain stitch and join the top of the first together with a slip stitch.
Step 22. Continue knitting more rounds until the scarf has reached the width you want
The scarf in the photo has five full rounds, but the number of rounds depends on the yarn, the crochet hook, who works and the desired width.
Step 23. When you have completed the last round, slip a row around the outside edge
This step is optional, but it helps to give a finished, smooth look to the outer edge.
Step 24. Cut the thread, knot the end and sew the remaining tail off to the inside
Step 25. Add fringe or other decorations at the end if desired
Advice
- Adjust the width of the scarf by working one or more or fewer turns.
- Adjust the length of the scarf by adding or removing eyelets at the beginning.
- A small swatch made with thinner yarn can make a coaster or doily, and it's a good workout to know the stitches before starting to work on a larger project.
- If you are new to crochet, first learn how to make a granny square and start with a thick yarn. You will see that this pattern is very similar.
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Image Thicker yarn with turns in alternating different colors. Using a thicker yarn drastically changes the character and substantially reduces the number of stitches and turns. This specimen is approximately 100mm wide.
