HDC Dragon Tail Scarf by Linda Styles, June 2017.

You can adjust the size of each scale tip by changing the number of slip stitches you do at the start of each scale tip row.

Since writing this pattern, I have made a couple of scarves with larger scales and, due to the height of the hdc stitch, I have made the following adjustment: the number of slip stitches equals the number of rows in the scale multiplied by 1.5, e.g. 4 rows - 6 sl st; 10 rows = 15 sl st; 16 rows = 24 sl st. Another way of looking at this is 3 sl st for every 2 rows of scale size. But please feel free to be creative with your own one and make the scales to suit your colours or style. Cheers :)