Single Crochet Mesh Scarf

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Fall is my favorite time of the year, and one of my favorite things about fall is the cooler temperatures. It is also the perfect season for crochet. I mean, I definitely feel like crochet can be for all seasons but this time of year you can make and wear/use crocheted hats, scarves, blankets, etc. 

Another thing I love about making projects like hats, scarves, and blankets is that they are great "on the go" projects, projects to work on in the car in the school pickup line, or in the waiting room, or even just moving from room to room in your house. There aren't lots of pieces, lots of different skeins of yarn, additional supplies like stuffing, safety eyes, and stitch markers. Just an easy project to throw in your bag and take wherever you go. This scarf was my on the go project for a bit while I worked on it. 

For this scarf I chose a bulky weight yarn, Caron Tea Cakes, in a fall-ish color way. I wanted to make a really big, chunky scarf, so using a bulky weight yarn helped me get that. I ended up making it about 8"wide and about 80" long, but it could easily be adjusted to any size you want. 

I chose a simple stitch for the scarf, between the bulky yarn and the color changes I felt like this would be the best way to go. Plus there was the fact that I just wanted a kind of simple, sort of mindless, project that I could work on. I chose to use the single crochet mesh stitch. This stitch is interesting because since it is a mesh stitch the first time I made it I kind of expected holes in-between the stitches, like a mesh, but because it is made with single crochet stitches they are short enough that it kind of squishes together so it looks solid. If you pull it you can see the holes but just laid flat you don't notice. Instead it creates sort of a square block texture and it is a very simple stitch made by just alternating single crochets and chain stitches, similar to the moss stitch but instead of working the single crochets into the chain spaces you are working them on top of the single crochets from the previous rows. 

I used about 1 1/2 skeins for my scarf and then I finished it off with a simple fringe on the ends. Because this scarf is made with such a simple stitch it would be easy to adjust the size of your scarf, make it longer or shorter, skinnier or wider, change the yarn to a different yarn, add the fringe or leave it off, or even sew it into a circle scarf instead. 

How to Crochet the Single Crochet Mesh Stitch Scarf

You will need:

• 2 cakes of Caron Tea Cakes (sample made in Smoked Fruits) 
• N (10 mm) crochet hook
• yarn needle

Instructions:

The scarf is made with the single crochet mesh stitches which is a 1 row repeat (every row is the same) stitch and as a result it can easily be adjusted to change the size. You will need to start with an even number of chains (odd number of stitches + a turning chain), so for a thinner scarf start with fewer chains, for a wider scarf start with more chains. Continue the rows until you reach the desired length, you could end shorter than my scarf or make it longer. The fringe on the ends is optional. To turn your scarf into a circle scarf crochet until you reach the desired length then sew the short ends together. To make the scarf with a different weight of yarn be sure to use a hook size that is appropriate for your yarn and adjust the number of stitches as necessary to reach the desired width and length. 

The finished size of the scarf is 8" wide by about 80" long. 

Single Crochet Mesh Stitch Scarf

ch 20
Row 1: sc in second chain from the hook and each chain to the end (19 sc)
Row 2: ch 1, turn, sc in first st, [ch 1, sk next st, sc in next st] repeat to end (10 sc, 9 ch 1 spaces)

Repeat row 2 until you reach the desired length, each sc st will be worked on the sc st from row before, each ch/skipped st should be over the ch in the row before

Last Row: when you have reached the length you want work your final row as follows: ch 1, turn, sc in each st to end (19 sc)

Finish off and weave in ends

To add fringe:

Cut 42- 12" lengths of yarn

Using 3 strands at a time fold the strands in half and pull the loop of the folded end through a stitch on the short end of the scarf. 

Pull the cut ends through the loop you just made and pull to tighten (similar to a larks head knot)

Repeat this across each short edge skipping a couple of stitches between each fringe bundle (I added 7 fringe bundles across each short edge)