Santa Scarf

I’m attending a Christmas party this evening and Christmas sweaters are required.
Well, I’m not investing in a sweater just to wear this evening and I’ve left it far too late to crochet a sweater (if I wanted to) so I thought I’d make a Christmas scarf and wear it with a plain red sweater that I do own.

I might make another one, in the future, with some adaptations so here is my pattern.

WHITE / Beard

• chain 18
• sc loop-stitches across (see my previous project for my how-to)
• chain 1; turn; sc loop stitches back across
• slip stitch to bottom and sc loop stitches across. This now becomes the top. I did this keep loops facing “down”. This also makes a lovely “beard” along the bottom
• chain 1; turn; sc loop stitches across
• chain 1; turn; sc across
• chain 1; turn; sc loop stitches across
• chain 1; turn; slip stitch across; finish off and leave a LONG piece to use as beard in centre of next row

PINK / Face

• sc 6, (over strand of white); switch colours; sc 6 white (over strand of pink); switch and sc 6 pink
• chain 1; turn; sc across
• chain 2; turn; sc across
• chain 1; turn; sc 9; create a very thick bobble nose (popcorn stitch) in next stitch; sc 9
• next 4 rows: chain 1; turn; sc across; finish off

WHITE/Hair

• create 2 rows of loops (with row of slip stitch between); finish off

RED / Hat

• sc across; chain 2; turn
• dc; and then linked double crochet across; chain 2; turn
• 12 rows of above
• chain 4; skip 3; 12 sc; chain 4; skip 3; sc
• chain 3; dc; 2 linked double crochet across;
• chain 3; turn; repeat
• repeat this short row, to wrap around neck and hand down to the Santa face (40 rows?)

WHITE/ Pompom

• sc across
• loop stitches across and join to first;
• 2 loop stitches in each stitch around
• 2 loop stitches in each stitch around
• loop stitch in every other stitch
• loop stitch in every other stitch; continue around until it is “closed”
• cut a LONG piece of yarn; pull yarn through to red yarn and wrap around the white to secure into “pompom”; tie off

EYES
add eyes by nose.

(If you try this pattern and something isn’t working right, please let me know… this is by memory)