Molas Scarf

This scarf was inspired by the Molas quilting technique used by the Kuna people of the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama. For my Molas scarf, I chose similar colors but used only geometric shapes, creating and piecing each shape together as I went. The shapes are worked primarily in single crochet often in the back loops only. I then edged the entire scarf with a single color to pull the whole thing together.

 

 

 

 

Mermaid Scarf

This scarf sprang from a scrumble bag that I had assembled to make a mermaid freeform crochet flat doll. I only got the tail done before I reverted to scarf making again. Ah well, gotta feed the muse. She likes to eat yarn. :-)

 

 

 

 

Raspberry Chocolate Mousse

This freeform crochet scarf incorporates a bit of knitting (upper left of photo). I like to add bits and pieces of other people's abandoned projects that I find at thrift stores.

 

 

 

 

 

Baja Scarf

My latest scarf is based on a pattern that I call "Baja Scarf," because I made the first one while visiting the Baja region of Mexico. It incorporates a lot of bright desert colors reminiscent of  desert flowers.

 

The body of the scarf is constructed in one piece from one end to the other of crocheted blocks of color worked in different stitches. Next, I crocheted the flowers and sewed them on at strategic locations. After that, I added the ruffles worked along the edges of the color changes in the blocks. Finally, I made the fringes a la Prudence Mapstone style.

 

My Scarf History

 

When I first started making scarves, I went a little crazy. Since I was single at the time, I just laid out all my yarn in the living room of my apartment and started crocheting with a big ol' Q hook. After I had about 50 of them, I thought I might need to figure out something to do with all these scarves, so I brought some to work and sold them. Later, I found a boutique to sell them in and sold some at craft sales and on eBay too. Here's a picture of what some of those scarves looked like:

 

You can get a free pattern for the Q hook scarves on the page.

 

Lately, I've been working on freeform crochet scarves. They take a lot more time (I got the Q hook scarves down to about an hour), but they are much more fun.

 

The first freeform scarf I made ended up in the Bothell library exhibition (see the page for details). I just had to make the second scarf in my favorite color: purple. Both scarves are now in an online exhibition at http://scarfcrazy.knotjustknitting.com.