How to Crochet a Head and Neck Warmer

What better way to keep your head and neck warm during cold winter months than a stylish, homemade hooded scarf. You can wear this fashionable item over your head like a hood and wrap its loose ends around your neck to keep you extra cozy. Crochet your head and neck warmer with a gauge of four repeats equaling 5 inches to guarantee a properly proportional finished product.

Things You'll Need

• Size I crochet hook
• Yarn
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Chain stitch 145 stitches.

2. Crochet the first row by double crocheting the first stitch, chain stitching 2 stitches, then single crocheting 1 stitch. Skip the next 2 stitches, then double crochet the first stitch, chain stitch 2 stitches and single crochet 1 stitch. Repeat this pattern from the skipped stitches across 48 stitches. Double crochet 2 then turn the work to begin the second row.

3. Double crochet 1 stitch, chain stitch 2 stitches, then single crochet. Double crochet the next 2 stitches, chain stitch 2 stitches, then single crochet 1 stitch. Repeat the instructions in the last sentence all the way across. Turn the work.

4. Repeat the second row until the work measures 10 1/2 inches from the beginning, then fasten off.

5. Fold the scarf in half. Slip stitch the two back sides of the scarf together 9 inches down from the fold line to create the back of the hood. Fasten off.

6. Finish the open edges by working down one side from the fold line, double crocheting 2 stitches, chain stitching 2 stitches, then single crocheting 1 stitch. Fasten off.

7. Reattach the yarn at the fold line and work down the other side, repeating the finishing seam pattern. Fasten off. Weave the yarn ends into the work.

References

• Crochetville.com; Gracie's Hooded Scarf; Dorothy Matthews; November 2005
• Dirty Dawg Crochet; Hooded Scarf; playful; March 2006