How-To_ Crochet Waffle Stitch Scarf - left hand

Today I'm going to be showing you how to make this waffle stitch crocheted scarf. There's a few things that you'll need to know before attempting this project. First, this project is not going to be for absolute beginners that have never crocheted before. This is for, yes, beginners that at least have a basic understanding of chain stitches, single crochet, and double crochet. Those are the three stitches that you'll be using in this. But yeah, this particular scarf, it is almost eight feet long and I used four skeins of this. I love this yarn by Hobby Lobby. The color that I used is, without a reflection, 510 blue camo stripe. And this is what it looks like. I also used a size J, six millimeter crochet hook to do this. This scarf is 35 stitches wide. For this pattern you will need an odd number of stitches. You can make it any width that you want. You can make it any length that you want. For kids, I would suggest doing maybe 20 stitches wide. But since I am a grown male, I chose 35. And this scarf is kind of a yarn hog because this particular stitch, it is two-sided. And it is very dense. It's very thick. It's very plush. Basically, this particular stitch, it makes it so it's like almost a double layer of fabric as you crochet it. But yeah, without much further ado, let's get the tutorial started. To get started, I'm going to leave myself a rather long tail. And I'm going to create a slip knot and insert my hook into that. And I'm going to be doing a chainless foundation using double crochets. So I'm going to chain three. I'm going to yarn over and I'm going to go through this first chain right here. I'm going to go through there, yarn over, and pull through. And I'm going to create the chain as I'm going and making the double crochets in the first row. So yarn over, make one chain, and then finish your double crochet as you normally would. Now to make your second stitch, yarn over, go through that first chain or that one chain that you made at the bottom of that double crochet. Go through that, make another chain, and then finish your double crochet as you normally would. Go through that chain one, make another chain one, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over and pull through two. And make sure that you're grabbing the bottom two stitches there of that chain. So chain one and double crochet. And you can see that is creating our first row of double crochet without using a chain. This is 34 and this is going to be 35. So this will be the last stitch in our row. I'm going to chain one, but because this is the last stitch on our foundation row, I'm going to actually do a chain two and then finish with our standard double crochet like that. And that gives it more of a square shape at the bottom. And the reason I like doing the chainless foundation is that the bottom looks like the top of a standard row. You don't have the loosey bits of a standard chain. So whenever I'm doing projects that have this or have a normally a chain at the bottom, I always do the chainless foundation so it looks nice like that. All right, at the end of every row we're always going to chain two. And we're going to turn our work. Now it doesn't matter if you start with row A or row B. It'll be the same. It doesn't matter. So I'm going to yarn over and row A is you're going to do a front post double crochet on your second stitch, which is this stitch right here. This is your first stitch. That's your second. So you're going to do a front post double crochet. So you're going to insert your hook behind this stitch and you're going to work a double crochet. The next stitch is going to be just a regular double crochet in the top. And you're going to go through both loops on the top. And then you're going to the next stitch you're going to do a front post double crochet. And next stitch a regular double crochet through the top both loops. And you're going to do this all the way across. Alternating front post double crochet on top of your chain two from the previous row. Just like that. So that is the end of row A. And it looks like that. Now for row B. We're going to chain two again and we're going to turn our work. And row B is almost like row A except for the fact that you start with a regular crochet in that second stitch right there. And then you're going to do a front post double crochet in the third stitch. Like that. And then you're going to do a standard double crochet. Now this is where it kind of makes it easy to follow along when you're in the pattern in the middle of a work. Is that this stitch right here that you want to do a front post double crochet through, it actually sticks out. And those stitches that stick out are the ones that you want to do a front post double crochet through. These stitches that sink or fall down below, those are the ones that you want to do a regular crochet in. So that, or regular double crochet. So that will help you keep track of where you're at. The only difference really between the two rows is the beginning. Row A you start with a front post double crochet. Row B you start with a regular double crochet. So I'm going to keep going through row B. So now we're coming up at the end of row B. And you're going to end with a, where am I at here, wrong stitch. And when you first start doing this you'll, you want to make sure that you're going into the right stitch. Like there I did not go into the right stitch. You want to go into the top of this stitch right here. This one right here, right there, is actually the top of the stitch that you just did the front post double crochet on. So don't make the mistake of going through that stitch. You want to make sure that you're going through the top of this one here, the next stitch. So the end of row B is going to be a double crochet. And then again a double crochet through the chain two from the previous row. Like that. And chain two. Turn your work. Like that. And this is what it looks like after your first row of row B. So this is three total rows of crochet all the way across. And now the pattern is just simply going back and forth between rows A and B continue. The next row will be row A, which will be a front post double crochet. The next row will be row B, row A, row B, row E, or row A, row B, row A, row B. And just keep going back and forth until you get it to as long as you want. So I've gone ahead and repeated rows A and B all the way across back and forth until I've gotten to this. As you can see how many layers are here. There's one, two, three, four, five, six layers here. I've gone ahead and worked through three complete skeins of yarn. And this scarf as it sits right now is 72 inches long. I like long scarves. You most certainly do not have to make it this long. Three scarves or three skeins will be plenty, especially if you don't make it as wide as I do. But since I like them wide and long, I'm using so many skeins of yarn. Anyway, so before we do the fringe or put the fringe on, this is the last row that I did. It just happens to be a row B. I'm going to put my hook through the yarn there. I'm going to chain one, turn my work, and for the very last row all you're going to do is single crochet through the top of each stitch. One more stitch to go. Like that. Yarn over. Give yourself plenty of tail so that way it hangs down with the fringe and you don't have to weave it in. Just pull it through and pull tight. And that is the top of the scarf or the end, I should say. All right. Now we're going to go ahead and make the fringe for this using the fourth skein of yarn. And actually what I'm going to do is make the fringe and the yarn left over at the end. I'm going to take out this last row and add that in because I don't like having leftover yarn. So I've gotten that last row done and now I'm going to start working on the fringe. But before I do that, I need to know how many pieces of yarn I need to cut for this fringe to work. Because I have made this 35 stitches wide, I'm going to put a fringe in every other stitch here. So that would mean, and I'm going to have one at the beginning and one at the end. So technically I'm going to have 18 pieces of fringe or 18 fringes across each end. And because I have two ends, therefore I need double that amount. So a total of 36 fringes is what I need. Because I want four strands per fringe, I'm going to need four times 36, which is 144. I know this is all math and it might be complicated, but it depends on how many stitches you have, how many fringes, or how many pieces of yarn you want in each fringe, blah blah blah. So I've already worked it out. I need 144 pieces of yarn to do a fringe on both ends. So I'm just taking a book here. This book happens to be nine inches long. And I'm going to take my yarn and I'm going to hold it at the top like this. I'm just going to wrap around this book 144 times. All right, so I have wrapped it 144 times around this book. Actually, there's maybe half a dozen more because I just want to make sure that I have enough. All I'm going to do is take the yarn under, clip it off like that, and then right through the center here of this book, I'm just going to cut all of these just like that. Fold these up and then here are all of our fringe pieces. Now what you want to do to make the fringe is grab your predetermined, however many you decided that you wanted for a fringe, pieces of yarn, fold them in half. And I'm going to take these pieces. I'm going to insert my hook through this first stitch here, the end of it actually, like that. I'm going to grab my four pieces of fringe, pull it through, and then pull all these pieces through those loops like that. And snug this down. Grab four more pieces of our fringe, and if you have some yarn like that one there, it's a little longer, just snip it off. No big deal. Go back to our work and the second stitch, which would be right there, or I should say the second one from what we just did, pull through, pull all these through those four loops, tighten this up, and there you go. I just keep doing this all the way across. And after you get all your fringes done, that's what it will look like. And there you go. There is your Waffle Stitch Crochet Scarf. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching.