Easy Crochet Slanting Squares Scarf Pattern (2 Row Repeat You’ll Memorize Fast)

Okay, to make the slanting square scarf, I am on a mission to use up all of my yarn in my stash. I am trying to go zero yarn, however effective that will be, and try not to buy any new yarn Unless it's for something absolutely specific. But since I'm remaking a lot of my paid patterns into free patterns, I am heading into my stash and getting rid of stuff. So for the actual scarf, I'm going to be using this Auden Wools from KnitCrate, which unfortunately is out of business. This is their Chill line, so if you have this in your stash somewhere because you were part of KnitCrate, you can go pull that out and make this scarf. What you're going to want is a worsted weight yarn and this has 300 yards all together with both of these. This is an alpaca cashmere blend so it's super soft. It's going to drape really well but really any worsted weight yarn is going to work great for this project. Self-striping, whatever you have, go grab it out of your stash. And we can make this project easily. So with the yarn, we're going to use a 5mm US H hook. This is going to give us some very good definition on our stitches. And because this yarn is so drapey, it's not going to affect that. If you're using kind of a stiff yarn, like a Red Heart Super Saver, you might want to go up in hook size to get it a little bit more drapey. But for very drapey yarn like this, like a Caron Simply Soft, the H hook's going to be perfect. So besides that you'll need a yarn needle to weave in your ends and then the pattern of course so head to the description to go grab that and we'll get started. Okay to begin the scarf we're going to do a slip knot on our hook with a tail long enough to weave in. Then what we're going to do is chain 37 so go ahead and make 37 chains and then we'll We'll come back and start row one. Okay, I've got my 37 chains and I'm ready for row one, so I'm going to turn, of course, and then I'm going to skip the first three chains, and that's going to count as a double crochet. Then I'm going to double crochet once into the next stitch, so the fourth chain from my hook, and then a double crochet in the chain after. The chain three that I skipped is going to count as a double crochet so I technically kind of have three double crochets here. Then we're going to start our repeat. So we're going to skip the next two chains and we're going to do a double crochet in the chain after. We're not doing any chains in between. We're just going straight from a double crochet to the next double crochet because we want this to lean over because we're actually going to work around this in just a second. So we're going to chain three to get some height. Then, we're going to work around that double crochet we just made. So we're going to do three double crochets around that post. So we're going to yarn over, insert through that nice big hole, pull up a loop, pull through the first two, pull through the last two, and do that two more times. This is where our slanting square comes in. So now we are slanting over on that one. Then we're going to skip the next two chains so don't get confused this is this big thing that's pulling up that's the chain we just worked into because you can see the two that we skipped right here so we're going to go here to the next one that's our number one and that's our number two that we're skipping you can kind of pull them apart if you need to see them better then we're going to work into that third one and we're going to do one double crochet in the next three stitches That's going to create our straight square, so we have a slanting square and a straight square. So we have square, slant, square. That is going to be our repeat, so we're going to skip the next two chains and do one double crochet which is going to make it lean, then we're going to chain three for height, then Then we are going to do three double crochets around that post. Now we have our next slanting square. Then we're going to skip the next two chains so again pull it apart if you need to kind of get everything situated. There's our next two. Then we're going to do three double crochets, one in each of the next three chains. So we're going to continue that across and then I'll come back right at the end to show you how we end this off. Okay I'm back. I just finished my last slanting square. Now I have five chains left, so again, we're going to skip the next two, and then we're just going to do the three double crochets in the next three chains. So we'll have both ends with the straight squares, so I don't lose my stitches, and then that is the end of row one. So for row two, we're going to turn our work. And we're going to chain three, and one thing I'm going to show you that you can do instead, you can do a tall chain. So if you pull your chain up the height of your stitch and lock it in with a chain, then we do a double crochet in that first stitch, and that's in place of a chain three. That gets rid of the hole that you normally get when you just do a chain three. So let me show you a chain three real quick so you can see the difference. It actually will do two different things because I need to see the next stitch after that. So here's a chain 3, and then we're actually doing double crochets right on top of double crochets. So when I do the chain 3, and then I do my two double crochets, you get that hole there that sticks out. So if you want to eliminate that hole, you can do what's called a tall chain. And that will eliminate the hole, so I'm going to do a tall chain for this. I'm going to pull it up, and I'll lock it in. That brings me up to the height I need. Then I'm actually going to do a double crochet in that first stitch instead of a chain 3. And then I'm going to do the double crochets after. And now it's a much more dense side. Now I don't have that hole, so I'm going to stick with that for the rest of the pattern so you can see how that looks. And then what we're doing this row is kind of making it Straight and flat again, because right now we have these things sticking up. So what we're going to do is we're going to chain two, and we're going to single crochet in this chain three loop. So all the way around there, we're going to go right inside and do a single crochet. Flattens that out. And then we're going to chain two again, and we're going to double crochet into these three double crochets. And we're just going to repeat that across. So we're going to do three double crochets in the three double crochets below. We're going to chain two, we're going to single crochet in that chain three spot, get some slack, and keep on going. So I'll meet you at the end, oops, that's three, I only need two, I'll meet you at the end, which is going to be three double crochets right at the end. Okay, here I am doing my last two double crochets, working into that chain three I did at the very beginning. Now I have the end of row two, so now I'm nice and flat again. So for row three, which we're going to make ourselves not flat again, we're going to turn, we're going to chain three. Actually, I'm going to do the tall chain so we can block that out. We're going to double crochet in the next three stitches because we are doing a tall chain. We're going to start making our slants again. So our repeat, we're going to skip this space here, we're going to work into that single crochet of the row below to make that slanting double crochet, chain 3, and work those 3 double crochets in. 3 double crochets into the 3 double crochets, just like we did with our foundation chain. So we're going to repeat that across, just as we did in the very first row, the only difference is now we're working into stitches. So we skip those two, work into that single crochet, chain three, and work around that post. I can't wait to wear this because this alpaca and cashmere is so soft. So keep going across and we'll meet right at the end of the row to discuss the rest of this. Okay, here I'm at the very last stitch and another thing I like about the tall chain is there's actually a stitch to work into. You don't have to work into a turning chain. So here we go, we've finished row three, so now you're just going to keep on repeating rows two and rows three back and forth until you run out of yarn basically. So this is a great project to use up however much yarn you have, just make sure you end with a row two repeat because that will make you square or straight or flat or whatever you want to call it. I'm going to stick with that With that tall chain across. But once you finish that just go ahead and weave in your ends and you will be done with the scarf. So a super simple repeat that is fun to do and you don't have to pay attention too much. I hope you I hope you enjoyed this pattern. I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching!