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All right! Scarves!! These are great for cold winters! Fortunately Someone was thinking in advance when I made them... and obviously it wasn't me. Scarves are easy to make and completely impractical in West Texas, a desert. Even in the winter it rarely gets cold enough to worry about scarves. Hats, maybe, and medium-weight coats sure, but scarves, nahhh... most do without and are perfectly content!
1. For the first scarf, it was made from the same type of yarn as the beanie-toboggans, only in a different color. Very thick, kind of wavy yarn. Though I have since lost the original skein papers, I have found similar yarn since. A good yarn to use now would be Lion Brand Yarn, Homespun, 98% acrylic, 2% polyester, net weight of 6 ounces, 185 yards / 169 meters, bulky, recommend size K - 10.5 crochet hook or 10 (6mm) knitting needles.
The pattern is very simple. Single crochet to your hearts content! About 22 to 25 stitches across for about 150 rows should make a nice sized scarf. Like I said, very simple.
2-4. I don't know what kind of yarn I used because it doesn't have any paper labeling and I've never used anything quite like it before. Plus, it came on a spool. It's a little lighter than medium weight and works well with size H (8 - 5mm) crochet hook or size 8 (5mm) knitting needles when using a single yarn. There are notes for doubling the yarn below.
2. The second scarf was knit from a knitting book that I found. *Knitting Made Easy* by Red Heart yarn company has beginner basics, illustrated stitches, and updated techniques. With 9 patterns in this book, this pattern, a beginner level, is on page 19 and is called "On the Double Scarf." Since I do not see a copyright, I'll go ahead and include the pattern here.
Pattern: recommends 2 colors of medium weight yarns knit together, I only used one yarn so my project is very small compared to what they recommend.
*Cast on 20 stitches. Knit 8 rows. Work in pattern as follows:
*Row 1 (right side): knit.
*Row 2 and 3: Knit 4, purl 12, knit 4.
*Row 4: knit.
*Repeat rows 1-4 for the pattern until the scarf is about 52 inches from beginning, then end by working Row 4. Finish the pattern by knitting 8 rows. Bind off. Weave in ends.
3. Completely double crocheted. That's right, nothing fancy, about 20 stitches per row and long enough to make a scarf! It was nice to do something so easy after concentrating so hard on the knitting!
4. This scarf was made by crochet starting in the middle and working my way out. It would work well with a size N (9mm) crochet hook with two strands of yarn from two skeins or balls. The first step is 92 double crochet stitches. Then, once those 92 stitches are on, use the end stitches as a base to double crochet 3 stitches thus making the ends. The 3 double crochet stitches are the first rows of each end. Now, in rounds, double crochet one-for-one until you get to a corner. Each corner will had 2 double crochet stitches and 2 chain stitches to make the scarf flat. There should be a total of 5 countable rounds to make the scarf.
So... the pattern might look something like this (note: the initial "chain 3" counts as the first double stitch of the round):
*Chain 92.
*Row A: double crochet 92 stitches.
*Round 1: chain 3, double crochet 2, chain 2 double crochet 90, chain 2, double crochet 3, chain 2, double crochet 90, chain 2, connect with slip stitch.
*Round 2: chain 3, double crochet 4, chain 2, double crochet 92, chain 2, double crochet 5, chain 2, double crochet 92, chain 2, connect with slip stitch.
*Round 3: chain 3, double crochet 6, chain 2, double crochet 94, chain 2, double crochet 7, chain 2, double crochet 94, chain 2, connect with slip stitch.
*Round 4: chain 3, double crochet 8, chain 2, double crochet 96, chain 2, double crochet 9, chain 2, double crochet 96, chain 2, connect with slip stitch.
*Round 5: chain 3, double crochet 10, chain 2, double crochet 98, chain 2, double crochet 11, chain 2, double crochet 98, chain 2, connect with slip stitch.
*Work ends into scarf.
I guess that's it for these guys. I'll catch you on the next post! Hope you enjoyed!
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