Sweet Stripes Hooded Scarf Crochet Tutorial (Easy + Beginner Friendly!)

Hey everyone, it's Deja from Knit and Crochet Ever After. Today we are making this kids hooded scarf. This is called the Sweet Stripes Scarf for obvious reasons. It is sized for a child, but I'm going to give you tips on how to size it for an adult. So if you want to make it bigger or longer, bigger hood, whatever it may be, I'm going to tell you how to do that. But for now we're going to be using some worsted weight yarn, a 5.5 millimeter US I hook, and you just need to download the pattern in the link, and we'll get started. Okay, so the first thing we're going to do for our scarf is put a slipknot on our hook, so I always take the tail at the bottom and just twist down and reach through to my working yarn, and pull that new tail to tighten it, and then I use the working yarn to make it fit the hook. Okay, so we are making this a long scarf, so we're doing the length first. And then we're going to make it wider. So for that we have to do a whole lot of chains. We're going to do 165 chains. So this is going to make it about 46 inches for, you know, it's good for a little kid, by adding multiples of four so 169 173 177 just but you can easily make add multiples of four to make it as long as you this bigger. want and of course it'll take more yarn so don't forget to get more yarn if you need it but we just yarn over from back to front turn our hook down and then we can get through those chains nice and And we're doing 165 using a long color changing yarn. So when we look at this yarn that I'm using, we can see big, big. Um, circles of color, which means that this is going to have a really long color change. You can look at the band and see pictures, and you can see there's some smaller ones, but some are really big and large, and that's going to be good for our scarf since we're making it lengthwise. You want long color charges, color charges, color changes. So all of these new cake yarns that they have out from lots of different manufacturers, these are going to be really good for this project. That's, you know, if you want long stripes. If you don't, then don't worry about it. You can make it a solid color. You can make it with speckled yarn, whatever you want. But if you want the long color changes, just make sure that when you're looking for the yarn, look for something that has a lot, a big section of each color. So, we'll continue on with our 165 chains. You can use stitch markers every once in a while, maybe put it in every 10 chains, every 20 chains, just so if you lose count, you don't have to go and start over and recount everything. But we'll get to 165 and then we'll come back and do our first row instructions. Okay, I've got my 165 chains all lay in here, smushed up, and I'm going to start with row one. So I'm going to be working not in my back loop, which is kind of common when you're working into your foundation chain, but I'm going to turn my work over and I'm going to work into these bottom bumps. So if you look, you can kind of see this vertical dashed line. Those are my bottom bumps. And when I work into those, it leaves. The top two loops unworked in my foundation chain, and it gives it a nice edge. So it's up to you. You don't have to. You can just work into the back loop. That's kind of the common thing to do. But if you want just a little bit of a nicer edge to your scarf, go ahead and work in the back loop. So, I am starting in the fifth chain from my hook, and I'm going to double crochet. So I'm going to yarn over first before I start counting these out. And what you can do, you can either use your back loop to count out five and then turn it over and work into the bottom bump, or you can turn it over to start with. So you can see this yarn is not a bottom bump. This is my very first bottom bump where it actually comes out. So I have one, two, three. four and five takes a little bit extra work to figure these out to work into them but it really makes a nice edge on your scarf but if it's too hard for you to see it if you're brand new don't worry So we're going to do three double crochets in that bottom bump. about it just work into your back loop So the first one, we pull through the first two loops, yarn over, pull through the second. Then I'm going to yarn over and I'm going to go back in. So I just kind of pull on it to try to find the loop if I can't see it well. It's gigantic right now so I can see it very easily. I'm going to do another double crochet, yarn over, pull through the first two, yarn over, pull through the second two. And I'm going to do one more. And these are creating what I call my little tulips. I don't know why I call them tulips but they're like little flowers. So now I need to skip three chains. So again I'm in my bottom bump and now it's facing up so I'm not really looking at the top of my stitches anymore, I'm just looking at the bumps. So I have my very first one here, so they're just little straight lines is what you're looking for. Here's my second one, here's the third one that I'm skipping. And then here's my next one, and I'm going to single crochet. I'm not doing anything to get over there. I'm not chaining or anything. I'm just going straight into a single crochet that's going to bring a little flower over. Leans now. Then I'm going to chain three. One, two, and then I'm going to do some more double crochets in the same chain as that single crochet was made. So I'm not going to my next stitch. I'm going back into that same stitch that I just made that single crochet. And I'm going to do another three double crochets. So it's pretty easy to find that loop because it's nice and big from pulling on the single crochet. Yarn over, insert back in. Pull up a loop. Two, pull through two. One more. Now you can see I have two slanted. Well, once I single crochet this one down, it's going to slant. But that's what I'm doing, is that I am going to skip three chains again. Again, I'm looking at my bottom bumps here. So that was the last one. So here's one, two, three. And then I'm going to single crochet into that fourth one. And then I'm doing the same thing again, chaining three, one, two, three, and double crocheting three times in that nice big stitch there. So let me show you what the foundation chain is looking like. So I do these three, actually I'm going to do my single crochet so it kind of anchors it down. So there's one, two, three, and four. So now when I look at the bottom of my scarf, I have this nice V edge. It's called the V-edge because all of these little stitches look like V's stacked on top of each other. So it's just a little cleaner, little nicer looking than working into your back loop. And this is all that we're doing, all the way across. When we get to the end, I'll come back and we'll do the very last stitches together so you can see how you end the row. But you're just going to do three double crochets into where you made that single crochet. I'm going to skip three stitches, one, two, three, single crochet in the fourth, chain three, and then double crochet three times back in that same stitch. Pretty darn easy. The hardest part is just finding the stitches, especially if you're not used to looking for bottom bumps. So that could be the most difficult part, but just make sure that you're only skipping three, otherwise your stitch count at the very end or your stitches will be off a little bit. But we can always just kind of goof it if you only, if you accidentally skipped an extra one and you're down at the very end when we come back and you only have two and you need Don't worry about it. You're not going to notice it. You can just go on to the next row because we're working into these tulips so it's not like a super stitch count is super important, but you'll see what I mean when we go. So just keep on doing those little slanted flowers and we'll meet up at the end of the open. I've gotten all of my flowers done. I'm at the very last chain. Or three chains that I'm skipping and then working into the last one. So this is where if you somehow missed one or have an extra one, it's not a huge deal because all we're doing is single crocheting in the very last chain. So if you have one extra or one few, you can say I have one, two, three, and four. If you have five or three, don't worry about it. Just do your single crochet because we're not working into these. So it's not a big deal if you're just slightly off. Because that's going to save you a whole lot of trouble than having to undo this whole thing and see where you missed a stitch. So do not worry about it. You won't notice it at the very end. So now we are ready for row two. Okay so for row two this is what we're doing forever now. So this is the basics of what we are doing for the rest of the scarf. It's super easy. We're going to chain four to begin with. So yarn over four of those. Now we are going to start doing tulips or flowers the other way. So and just pull through. we're gonna do a three double crochets in that very first chain we made. So we did four chains. That very first one, wherever you want, you can do the back bump or whatever you like. I'm gonna do the back bump just to keep it nice looking. Do three double crochets there. One, go back in, it's nice and big to see the hole. Two and three. Then the instructions on the pattern, they're a little confusing because it says skip single crochet in 3DC. This is very simple. It's just saying that you're skipping the single crochet we made and the three double crochets from the row below, and it's just doing that so that you can understand that we're going to work into this chain three space, and we're just doing a single crochet in there. So you're reaching all the way through. Don't worry about catching loops. Just grab the whole thing. Single crochet and then we are repeating what we did on the row before. We're going to chain three and then in that same space we're going to go ahead and do three double crochets. So it's all around that chain three space. Super easy. So it tells you to dc three times in the same chain space as the last single crochet. So now you can see it's we have The last row going this way, and this row going this way. And that's all we do. We skip this stuff, we go to our chain three space, nice and easy to work into, do a single crochet, chain three, go back into our nice gigantic hole of a space, and do three double crochets. See right? See again. One more time before we go on our own. Skip everything, go to the next chain three space, single crochet, and three, double crochet So nice and easy, we'll come back at the end of the row so you can see what we're going to do, make sure you understand it, but this is what we're doing pretty much for the entire scarf. I'll come back at the end of this row, and we'll kind of meet up in the middle and stuff, so just keep on, keep it on. Okay, we finished the second row, and just like the first row at the very end, all we're doing is a single crochet, so we're already leaning that way. We just need to go under this beginning chain four, so remember how we skipped four chains and we worked into the fifth chain. We're just going to do a single crochet into that big chain four spot. And then we're done with row two. So row three is just the same exact thing. We're gonna chain four, then we're gonna do three double crochets into that very first chain, and then we're just going into those chain three spots again. We're single crocheting into the next one, chain three, crochet three times. Same old, same old. We'll do about five rows because we're just going to copy that over and over again. So that you can see what the edge is looking like and how it's turning out with the alternating flowers or tulips and show you the progress and show you kind of how the color is changing on this yarn to see if you like this yarn and want to get some of it as well. Otherwise you know any long color change worsted will work but I'll come back in a little bit and show you what we have. Totally doing weird stuff here. Pay no attention. Okay, so I've finished eight rows so far. It's really easy to count because you're just counting your tilted flowers here. So we can go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. I like how this is striping. It's kind of its own random stripe. I'm going to get a pretty good amount of red probably as well when I'm working. My next couple rows. So I'm going to 12 rows wide and then I'll do the finishing. This is another thing that you can customize. So just like you add four stitches, you know, as many as you want to make the scarf as long as you want, you can also make it as wide as you want. So the 12 rows is more for like a child's head, but you might want a bigger hood or, you know, for whatever reason, just keep making rows. For as long as you want to go and then come back and I'm going to show you how to put the edge on this edge so that it's good to go. So I'm going to go do another 4 rows until I get to the end of row 12 and then I'll come back and show you our finishing row. Okay, I'm on the very last stitch of row 12. So I'm just doing my single crochet, and now I'm ready for my finishing edge. So if you're making this wider, just keep going until you like the size of it, and then do this last one at the very end to give you kind of a straight edge on both sides. So the first thing we're going to do is chain four again, normal chain four, and then we're going to skip, as the pattern says, skip the SC, skip the 3DC, we're just going to single crochet in that big chain three space again. That's all we're going to do across. We're going to chain 3, and then we're going to single crochet in that chain 3 spot. So this is going to give us pretty much a mirror image of our foundation chain that we had along the bottom. So let's see how it's kind of coming together here. Chain 3, crochet. Very easy, very quick. And once you finish the row, just fasten off and weave in all your ends, And then we'll come back and make. So I decided to block the scarf. It didn't really need it. Some of the yarn that you may use might definitely need to be blocked. If you see that your motifs or the little flowers aren't laying very flat or your edges are curling, then you might want to block it. But I had just gotten these new blocking mats so I wanted to try them out. They're from Wool Love. I have a review on those as well. You can click on the link to check it out. But. I wanted to just see how it worked out and give this a little bit of a blocking before I sew the hood up. One thing that I was not expecting is that it wasn't very color fast so the red um the water was pretty pink when I took it out and I think I can see like a little bit of the red in these three colors. It's not as noticeable in the orange But I don't know if... It was this noticeable before, I guess when I go to, you know, make the video, I'll be able to tell a little bit better, and when this dries, I'll be able to tell, but it kind of ran a little, so be careful if you're using the same yarn, maybe not block it, but any other yarn, hopefully, it's not going to run when you block it, but once this gets dry, I'll come back and roll. Okay, I finished blocking the scarf, and now I'm ready to sew it up to make the hood. To make the hood I cut a length of the yarn that I finished in so that it would be the same color and what I'm going to do is I just folded it in half so you can see I just folded it straight down the middle and then I'm going to take my tape measure I'm going to measure out eight inches so depending on your head if you're making this bigger for like an adult you might want to go bigger on the hood just put the you know the tape measure to your head and see what's gonna And then I'm going to use a stitch marker to just kind of mark off the 8 inch mark so that I don't have to keep track as much when I'm sewing, so I don't have to keep going back and measuring. So now I know, just sew until you get there. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to mattress stitch this. Look at my needle. And mattress stitching kind of creates a really flat seam, pretty much invisible when it's all said and done, and it's not too difficult. So, since I have some nice V's from the tops of my stitches, it will be very easy to do my mattress stitch. If you need like a really slow tutorial on it, you can go to the mattress stitch tutorial. Otherwise, I'm going to kind of run through it quickly while we do it. So to start off, I'm just going to put my yarn under. So I have two stitches here. This is right where the fold is. There's two Vs and I'm just going to work under. One loop of each V rather than like going under both because this is a lot of chaining I'm like way off center here. We move over a little bit. Sorry Sorry. Since it's a lot of chaining. I can't really go under both. It's gonna mess everything up So I'm gonna go under one loop each as I work this so to start off I'm just gonna go under both of them where my bend is to just start off I'm gonna leave a tail that I can weave in and And then I'm just going to start mattress stitching. So what you do is you go up to your next stitch that your yarn came out of. So the next v right above, I'm going to go into that one loop, and then I'm going straight across to that inner, so I'm doing the inner loops, that inner loop of the stitch right across. I probably put too much yarn, but I'm always afraid of running out. You really don't need this much yarn to sew up 8 inches. Now to do the next stitch of our mattress stitch, we go up to the next stitch from the yarn that's on this side. So we came out this side, now we're going up to the next stitch on the same side, and And then going across to that inner loop and pulling on it. And then again, we came out this side, then we're going to go to the next stitch on the same side, go under that one loop, and then go across to the other loop. And this is what we do all the way through. You kind of want to just kind of grab both ends and give them a tug as you go. It's almost going to create like a straight line by the time you're done. So when you're, when you're pulling on it, you're pulling it straight, it doesn't make Make it bunch up. It just kind of makes sure that the seams are touching nice and close as we're doing it. So I'm going to keep going. Again, if you need a better video on the mattress stitch, just head over to the video and I'll go much slower and show you in contrasting yarn what it looks like. Okay, I'm on my last stitch here. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to weave these in, but just so you can see how the seam looks. So you can see if you want a mattress stitch, you can do any kind of joint you want. You can do a slip stitch, a single crochet, whatever you want. But this mattress stitch, you can see I kind of pull on it. Nothing moves, no matter how hard I pull, it doesn't bunch up or anything. Like you might get with like a whip stitch or something, but whatever you like best. But when I flip it, Maybe you want to turn it to the other side after you seam. You can see that it just kind of looks like the chain stitches are laying side by side and there is no gap, no bulge, no stitches sticking out. You know, it's nice and comfortable when you're wearing it. It just is a nice join. So whatever join you like, go ahead and do. I'm going to weave in these ends, and then we'll come back and take a look at the finished product. Okay, finished the scarf, woven all the ends. I just have it kind of on this little model so you can see what it looks like, you know, the hooded portion. This is obviously like an adult-sized head, so you would probably want to do... four more rows you know if you wanted it to kind of hang down a little bit or even more if you want it more of a hood style but you can kind of see the size difference of the kid versus the adult head and the length also the length is nice and short so that you can kind of just tuck it into a kid's jacket and not have to worry about a million loose ends if you were doing it for an adult i'd probably make it a lot longer just so they have options on how they want to wear it But that is it. If you have any questions, leave them below and thank you for watching.