The Square Dance scarf is created using the Mosaic technique, slipping stitches and holding the working yarn on the wrong side of the work as it is carried past the slipped stitches. By decreasing one stitch near the beginning of every right-side row and adding one stitch near the end of every right-side row, the final shape is a parallelogram and the rows appear to be on the diagonal. This results in a unique movement to the way the squares line up.

This pattern can be done in any yarn weight and you can adjust the number of stitches cast on, based on the multiple outlined in the pattern and the number of main body pattern repeats. Make sure to choose a main color that has high contrast to the contrast color. If you are using a variegated or long color way yarn for the contrast color, select a main color that is not in the contrast color yarn.

The first project with green main color and changing from black to white is done with Urth Harvest Fingering and Schoppel-Wolle Zauberperlen. The second project was done with Murkey Depths Harbour yarn in a solid color and a variegated color.