How to Crochet a Scarf with a Q Hook

Beginning crochet stitches include the chain stitch, slip stitch, and single crochet.

Don’t be intimidated by your large size Q crochet hook. Make a quick and easy yet elegant scarf using small amounts of fancy yarn and simple stitches. Using just one ball of yarn creates a lacy scarf. If using very thin yarn, double or triple the yarn strands with complimentary colors. For example, one 50 gram ball of mohair with a carrying strand of thin glittery yarn makes one scarf. Once you get the pattern down, you can make this accessory in just a few hours. But be warned—these scarves are highly addictive!

Things You'll Need

• Size Q crochet hook
• One or more balls of fancy yarn
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Crochet round 1. Make a chain the length you want for your scarf. A typical scarf length is 50-75 chains. Single crochet in the 2nd chain from hook and in each chain across, 3 single crochet in the last chain. Working across opposite side of the chain, single crochet in each chain across. Make 2 single crochet in the last chain. Join with slip stitch in 1st stitch, chain 1, turn.

2. Crochet round 2. Single crochet in each chain to end of scarf where 3 single crochet were worked in the last round. Work corners by making 2 single crochet in 1st single crochet of 3 single crochet, single crochet in middle single crochet, 2 single crochet in the next single crochet. Single crochet across to other end. Repeat corners. Join with slip stitch in 1st stitch, chain 1, turn.

3. Crochet further rounds. Repeat round 2, increasing the number of single crochet stitches between the corners with each round. Keep working in rounds until the scarf is the width that you want (or you run out of yarn), ending near where you began.

4. Finish the scarf in one of two ways: make a scallop edging or add fringe. To make the scallop edging, join contrasting yarn with slip stitch in any stitch, *single crochet in the next single crochet, skip 1 single crochet, 3 double crochet in next singe crochet, skip 1 single crochet. Repeat from * around. To make fringe, count the number of stitches on each end of the scarf. Cut as many strands of fringe, 8 inches long, as there are stitches or, for a thicker fringe, cut 2-3 times as many strands. Double the strands over a smaller, for example, size G, crochet hook and knot the strands into each stitch on scarf ends.

References

• Craft Yarn Council: Yarn Standards

Resources

• Craft Yarn Council: How to Read a Crochet Pattern
• Crochet Guild of America: About CGOA