It might sound silly, but some of what drives my choice of stitches in scarf patterns is what I will name the pattern. Sometimes the stitches drive the name. The honey buzzzz scarf contained honeycomb trellis and a honeycomb stitch. Also, I made the sample in yellow. Sometimes the name comes from a feeling I get about the piece. The winter picnic hat has a rather random name, but the fun texture of the warm hat just kept making me think I’d like to wear it to eat lunch outside in the cold. With this project, I knew I wanted to use a wave-like pattern stitch and then the name popped into my head. I’d been playing around with rows of puff stitches in a couple of other projects, so I plopped them between sections of waves in this pattern. Boom: The Waves on Rocks Scarf.
