Easy Crochet Scarf Tutorial for Beginners Cozy Blanket Scarf

So I've got my yarn here. This is the Jiffy Lion's Brand yarn. It is a chunky weight yarn and it calls for a 6.5 millimeter hook, so that's what I'm using. But since this is completely made to measure, you could really use whatever weight and whatever hook size you want. So to begin, we're going to make a chain and this chain is going to be the length of our scarf. So I want to do a super long blanket scarf. I'm about 5'4 and I want my scarf, without being wrapped around my neck, to fall like mid-thigh or a couple inches above my knee. So I'm going to chain my beginning chain to be about 70 inches. The average length of a blanket scarf is between 50 and 60 inches, so I'm making mine quite a bit longer. So if you want to just stick to the average length or if you're a little shorter than me or just want your scarf to not be super long, I would chain until you've got between 50 and 60 inches. So I'm going to get started by making my slip knot. I'm going to insert my hook and I'm just going to begin chaining. So I am just going to pull my working yarn through the loop on my hook like this to create my base chain. So I'm just going to keep going until I have 70 inches. The actual number that you chain really doesn't matter for this project. So as long as you have the length that you want, you're good to go. So I'm just going to keep going until it's long enough and then I will meet you back here. I finished my beginning chain. I went a little overboard and did more like 75 inches, so mine's going to be super long. So now that we have the length that we want chained for our foundation chain, I'm just going to chain two more. So I'm just going to put my finger on this last stitch here, chain two, and then I'm going to yarn over and place a half double crochet in this stitch that my finger is on. So two stitches away from the loop on my hook. So yarn over and place a half double crochet in that space and from here on out we are going to just place a half double crochet in each stitch all the way down and as we go we'll just have to make sure that we're not twisting our foundation chain. So try your best to just keep it as straight as you can. So I will show you the half double crochet one more time. We'll yarn over, insert into the next space, pull through and you'll have three loops on your hook. Pull through all of them. So yarn over, pull up three loops, pull through all of them. So we are just going to keep going until we get all the way to the end doing half double crochets and then I will meet you down there and show you how to turn and how to do our next row. So now I'm placing that last half double crochet in my last space. So I just finished my first row of half double crochets. Here is how mine looks so far. So now to begin the next row we're going to chain two, turn and now we're going to start our first row of doing half double crochets in the back loops only. So what that means is that we are only going to be working into this second loop over here. So we have a front loop and then a back loop. So I'm going to yarn over and in that first stitch I'm going to go into that back loop and then just make a half double crochet as I normally would. So I'll show you again. We're going to yarn over, find that back loop, insert and make a half double crochet and this is how we're going to get that ribbing effect. So we are going to keep going all the way down our scarf doing half double crochets in the back loop only until we get to the end. So I'm going to keep going and then I will meet you when I get to the end of this row. I just got to the last stitch of this row. I'm going to yarn over and instead of only going through the back loop for the last stitch, I'm going to go through both. So that is only for the last stitch of the row and I'm going to do my half double crochet. So now to do the next row I'm going to chain two, turn, yarn over and do half double crochets going into the back loops only all the way down until I get to the other end of my scarf. So this is how we are going to continue. We are going to be doing double crochet back loop only back and forth until we have the width that we would like for our scarf. So I'm going to keep going until I add a couple inches and then I will check back in to show you how it's looking so far and we'll keep going. So I did about 12 rows and now my scarf is five inches wide. So this is how mine is looking so far. Because I'm doing a wide blanket scarf I'm going to keep going until I have 10 inches. So I'll do probably another 12 rows for a total of 24 rows wide and then I will meet you back here to show you how we will finish off our scarf. So here is my scarf now. It is at a width that I'm happy with. It is about 10 inches wide. So this is how wide I like to make my blanket scarf so I am done adding rows. So to finish this scarf off I'm just going to go ahead and finish my last few half double crochets. Alright so I just finished my last half double crochet. I'm going to secure it and tie off. I'm leaving a pretty long tail just to be woven in and that is how I will leave mine. You have a few different options of finishing off. You can just leave it here which is what I'm going to do. If you wanted to clean up the edges to make them a bit more straight you could add a row of single crochets starting here and going this way. You could also add tassels but I wanted mine to just be super simple just a chunky scarf. If you're interested in a written pattern that includes multiple sizes of this style of scarf I'll have that in the description box below but we are finished. Thank you for watching!