I showed this same scarf and same yarn recently, and while I liked the pattern, there were a few issues I had with the finished product. First, for some reason it looked like I had missed one row of single crochet on one side of the scarf. No one but me would have probably noticed, but it bugged me. It felt “off.” The other issue I had was that ii was too short. I should have measured it, but I’d say it was about 3 feet long. Now, it is not meant to be long, so this was an issue I had. There’s nothing wrong with the pattern.
I wore it once and felt so-so about it, but considering I paid about $10 for the 1 skein I used and this was a scarf I didn’t see myself wearing much, I decided to go ahead and frog it and make it over again. This time, instead of starting with 121 chain stitches, I made 161 stitches, so this gave me length. It ended up being about 4 1/2 feet long (just right!)
As I frogged the finished scarf, I ended up having a heck of a time getting it all unwoven. Some of this was because I had woven in all of my tails, but I ended up losing some of the yarn. Once I started getting past the half way mark when remaking it, I realized that I may not have enough (yikes!) To play it safe, I ended up making 3 rows (instead of 4) of the crossed double crochet that are sandwiched in the middle of the rows of single crochet. This made it about a half an inch narrower than before.
This is the first time I’ve taken apart an entirely finished crochet project and redid it, and I’m glad I did, even if it meant sacrificing some of the yarn to do it. It is the length that I want and both sides of single crochet are even now. Totally worth it!
