Green Starter Scarf

Use a free crochet pattern like this one from Red Heart Yarn. Make a starter scarf for the fall and winter season. It's an intermediate crochet pattern with a beautiful design.

Materials:

• RED HEART® “Eco-Ways®”: 2 balls 3525 Asparagus
• Crochet Hook: Size I-9 (5.5 mm) crochet hook
• Yarn needle
• gauge: 12 hdc and 10 rows = 4” square using size I-9 (5.5mm) crochet hook. CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use anysize hook to obtain the gauge.
  Pattern
   

Note: Always remember to skip the stitch behind all FPdc and FPtr stitches.
Special Abbreviations:
PM = Place marker.
FPdc (Front Post double crochet) = Yo, insert hook from front to back to front around post of indicated stitch; yo and draw up lp, [yo and draw through 2 lps on hook] twice.
Skip stitch behind FPdc.
FPtr (Front Post treble crochet) = Yo twice, insert hook from front to back to front around post of indicated st; yo and draw up lp, [yo and draw through 2 lps on hook] 3
times. Skip stitch behind FPtr.
popcorn = Work 4 FPdc around indicated st; drop lp from hook, insert hook into top of first FPdc of popcorn and into dropped lp, draw dropped lp through first FPdc.
sc3tog (sc 3 sts together) = [Insert hook in next st, yo and draw up a lp] 3 times, yo and draw through all 4 lps on hook.
SCARF
Ch 20.
Foundation Row: Hdc in 3rd ch from hook and each ch across - 18 hdc.
Row 1 (wrong side): and all odd rows Ch 2, turn, hdc in each st across.
Row 2 (right side): Ch 2, turn, hdc in first 2 hdc, FPdc around next hdc 2 rows below; hdc in next 4 hdc, sk 2 hdc,
FPtr around next 2 hdc 2 rows below; working in front of previous 2 FPtr, FPtr around 2 skipped hdc 2 rows below, hdc in next 4 hdc; FPdc around next hdc 2 rows below, hdc in last 2 hdc.
Row 4: Ch 2, turn, hdc in first 2 hdc, FPdc around FPdc 2 rows below; hdc in next 3 hdc, FPtr around next 2 FPtr 2
rows below (slanted FPtr), hdc in next 2 hdc, FPtr around next 2 FPtr 2 rows below (slanted FPtr), hdc in next 3 hdc; FPdc around next FPdc 2 rows below, hdc in last 2 hdc.
Row 6: Ch 2, turn, hdc in first 2 hdc, FPdc around next
FPdc 2 rows below; hdc in next 2 hdc, FPtr around next
2 FPtr 2 rows below, hdc in next 4 hdc, FPtr around next
2 FPtr 2 rows below, hdc in next 2 hdc; FPdc around next
FPdc 2 rows below, hdc in last 2 hdc.
Row 8: Repeat Row 4.
Row 10: Ch 2, turn, hdc in first 2 hdc, FPdc around next
FPdc 2 rows below; hdc in next 4 hdc, sk 2 FPtr 2 rows below, FPtr around next 2 FPtr 2 rows below; working in front of previous 2 FPtr, FPtr around 2 sked FPtr 2 rows below, hdc in next 4 hdc; FPdc around next FPdc 2 rows
below, hdc in last 2 hdc.
Rows 11-146: Repeat Rows 3-10 seventeen times.
Row 147: Ch 2, turn, hdc in each st across.
Fasten off.
Finishing
Weave in all ends.