Charity Crafting Ideas, Continued - Scarves Crocheted Using the Diagonal Box Stitch

Two days ago, I posted about a favorite crochet stitch used frequently by our Friday morning charity crafters. In that post, I included photos of a baby blankie plus links to two different versions of how to do the diagonal box stitch.

I had promised to also post photos of a scarf for the homeless, using small amounts of scrap yarn, using that same stitch. Tonight, I'm finally getting around to doing that.

You can see how one scarf uses a lot of different, but coordinated, colors. The other, I got almost all the way done but had to use some other scraps to finish off the top corner.

With scarves, or anything that isn't square, you just start decreasing when you've made the piece as wide as you wish. You then continue to increase up the long side, and decrease on the short side.

When your long side becomes long enough to suit your purpose, you begin that side's decreases.

For scarves for the homeless, we never use fringe, to avoid their catching the strands when dealing with life on the streets.

We test the length by putting them around our own necks and making sure they are long enough to at least tuck inside coat or jacket lapels. Many times, mine are longer because I like the idea that the one who wears it can pull it around their neck a bit more than that. I also make mine wide enough to pull up almost over the ears for really cold nights out there.

For an edging on this type of stitch, I developed my own crochet version of the blanket-stitch. I posted about that a while back and I'm linking to that here, to help.