Comfort Scarf Donation for Mother's Day

I rounded up and finished rolling up the scarves I've made so far this year to donate to the Handmade Especially for You Charity for Mother's Day. They never have enough scarves to meet the demand, and the recipients are always so happy to have them. I love being able to make someone's day just a tiny bit brighter through my crochet work.

I used a few new thicker yarns for a few scarves that were really quick to work up... I also used several of the patterns from my blog and a few from other sites I was trying out.

There are very little requirements to create these scarves, and I hope you will take the time to make a few if you have enjoyed the free scarf patterns here on the blog!

Finding Scarf Patterns in Unique Places

In my quest to make comfort scarves for the Handmade Especially For You charity, I have been on a continual quest to find patterns that satisfy the Charity's size and weight requirements. I've searched the web, Pinterest, and Ravelry for many different options and I try out almost every single one! I like to have a variety of patterns available at my disposal because making the same pattern over and over again gets a little boring. In this post, I want to share some of my tips and tricks to finding unique patterns by changing WHAT you are actually searching for.

When I finished my first Queen Anne's Lace scarf, I wanted to keep doing scarves worked in the same way. I tried searching and searching but it was difficult for the search to narrow down images for a crochet technique, so I had to filter them on my own. After a long time of searching, I started having success, not in searching for "scarf patterns," but entirely different things...

Lace Tape 1

This lovely pattern is NOT a scarf pattern. It is advertised as a lace-tape pattern. This pattern is meant to be made with a fine yarn and small crochet hook. So I tried it out with a larger hook and my favorite yarn to see how the pattern would work out.

And, I have to say, it turned out so fantastic, that I made a few!!
SheRuKnitting.com has many different lace tape patterns that you can most likely turn into charity scarves. AND they are all video tutorials so you can follow along.

Here are some other patterns that I tried from SheRuKnitting.com:

Lace Tape 5

Lace Tape 6

If you follow me on Pinterest you've probably seen me pin some belts, headbands, and lace tapes because, guess what?! you can use those as scarf patterns too! Here is a list of a few that I plan to try out. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

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Did the patterns work out for you? Which designs do you like the most?

Spring Garden Scarf - Free Pattern

This is a very fun pattern you can do to celebrate spring! I know the Handmade Especially for You charity would love these scarves because they are certainly going to brighten up the day of whoever the recipient will be!

If you enjoyed this pattern, please consider making an extra one to donate to the charity (HandmadeEspecially.org) or purchase my PDF pattern document so I can make one on your behalf.

Materials:

Size K crochet hook

Soft yarn (medium weight)

Sewing needle

Gauge:

Initial chain should measure around 65 inches. If needed, add or subtract multiples of 3 to pattern to change size.

Special Stitches:

2-DC cluster: *Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, draw yarn through stitch, yarn over, draw yarn through first two loops on hook, repeat from *, finishing off by drawing yarn through remaining 3 loops.

Pattern:

Chain 132

Row 1: 1dc in 4th ch from hk, dc in each ch across. Turn

Row 2: Ch 3(counts as dc), 1dc in next 2 sts, *skip 2, ch 2, 1dc in next st. Repeat from * across, ending with 1dc in each of the last 3 sts. Turn

Row 3: Ch 3(counts as dc), 1dc in next 2 sts, skip 1, *(2-dc cluster [leaf], 1dc [stem], 2-dc cluster [leaf]) in the next st, skip 2, repeat from * across, ending with skip 1, 1 dc each of the last 3 sts. Turn

Row 4: Ch 3(counts as dc), 1dc in next 2 sts, CHANGE TO FLOWER COLOR, *(2-dc cluster in space between first leaf and stem, be sure to catch ALL 3 strands of the stitch, then 2-dc cluster on top of the stem stitch, then 2-dc cluster in the space between stem and last leaf, be sure to catch ALL three strands of the stitch.) skip next st and repeat from * across. After finishing the last flower change back to the scarf color and 1dc in each of the last 3 sts. Turn

Row 5: Ch 3(counts as dc), 1dc in next 2 sts, *skip all flower stitches, only dc in between flower motifs, ch 2, 1dc in next flower space (catching all three strands of stitch). Repeat from * across, ending with 1dc in the last 3 sts. Turn

Row 6: Ch 3(counts as dc), 1dc in each st across.

Fasten off.

Weave in ends.