The idea of this scarf was to make a grid with TSS which I could cross-stitch a design on to. I’ve now finished the scarf but still haven’t cross-stitched anything.

Double-ended H (5mm) hook from Clover.

The technique to get the two-color simple crochet with bars all on one side in a grid-like pattern suitable for cross stitch:

Standard two-color double-ended Tunisian crochet: forward pass with foreground color, return pass with background color. But to maintain grid:

• Odd forward (right side facing you) passes are twisted simple (insert needle from left to right through bar). Ugh, it is much slower for me than simple stitch.

• Even forward (wrong side facing you) passes are reverse simple (trs)

• I couldn’t keep the edges looking clean with the backward pass coming from both ends… there’s probably some technique I didn’t find. I ended up doing a single-crochet edging all around. The sc border (and steam blocking) helped a bit with the curl.

Review of prototype

• Too short! The gauge turns out to be closer to 4x4/inch than 4x3, so the scarf is 16” shorter than I expected.

• Would prefer a gradually changing yarn that changes colors more frequently/continuously

• Don’t think I like the flair at the large end. Would prefer a rectangle or triangle. Or maybe rounded?

• Doing two-color TSS flat, as described above, is slow. Version 2 will be TSS in the round creating a tube scarf which has the TSS grid on the right side, and I think that will be faster and with none of the curl.