The convertible crochet scarf came to be because I couldn’t make up my mind whether to make a scarf or a cowl. This scarf is both! You can wear this scarf long or like an infinity scarf by fastening buttons to puff stitch flower buttonholes. Made with Lion Brand Shawl in a Ball yarn, the scarf has lacy, drapey cable-like tall crochet stitches. The chunky puff stitch flowers in Lion Brand Hometown USA offer a nice texture contrast to the rest of the scarf. Wrap it around twice and button the flowers and you have a cozy cowl.

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.