Crocheting leaves is the crochet equivalent of eating candy. They are quick, easy, instantly gratifying, and you can go through a bunch without even realizing it. Just as we don’t create our meals out of candy (not many of them, anyway), we can’t create whole projects out of crochet leaves. They embellish and decorate items beautifully, but don’t make up a sweater, scarf, afghan, or slippers on their own. I certainly don’t want a life without candy, literal and metaphorical, so I present crochet leaf patterns with variations and some information on how to create your own variations.

This lacy waves crochet scarf started life as a shawl idea. That is to say, I was in the process of designing a shawl when I realized I didn’t have enough of the yarn I started it with. Soon, this scarf emerged into being.

This is the Honey Buzzzz Scarf, a free crochet pattern I designed for the launch of Trainee Hero Crafting. I wanted to make a scarf with some open work and a bit of texture. After brainstorming and perusing stitch dictionaries, I decided to alter and combine a honeycomb stitch and a honeycomb trellis stitch, as named in one of my stitch dictionaries. Hence the name “Honey Buzzzz Scarf.”