Crocheting with Ruffle Yarn

Knitting with ruffled yarn is pretty easy and straightforward. Crocheting with the novelty ruffle yarn is another thing entirely, but once you figure out the trick to it, you can easily whip up a trendy ruffled scarf in just a couple of hours with one skein of yarn.



I've been dying to get my fingers into the no-longer-new ruffle yarns and try my hand at crocheting up a luscious ruffled scarf, but I just couldn't justify spending the money on something so frivolous. Then last week, my daughter gifted me with a single skein as a thank you for hanging out with my baby grand - as if I need a thank you to play grammy to one of my granddaughters! On the other hand, I'll never turn down a contribution of fun yarn, especially one I've been lusting after for nearly a year. So, yesterday, I sat down with a skein of Bernat Twist & Twirl Yarn in Peacock (the color is discontinued but you can find it at the link if you're dying for this specific color) and an assortment of crochet hooks to play with my new toy. The result was this delicious confection of fluff in green, teal and blue.

How to Crochet with Ruffled Yarn

Ruffled yarns are meant for knitting, but you can crochet with them once you understand the trick to working with it.

The yarn comes off the skein looking like this, a curled ribbon.

When you pull it open, you find that the ribbon is a very loosely woven mesh, like this.

The trick is to insert your crochet hook through the top row of the mesh and treat just that top row as the working yarn, like so.

This is what a finished chain stitch looks like.

Once you've got the basic technique down, you can start fooling around with variations, like this ruffle, created by crocheting into the 4th row down every half-inch of so.

And use it for applications like this...

Or a scarf, like this.

1-Skein 1-Day Crochet Ruffle Scarf Pattern

• 1 3.5 oz (33 yard) skein Bernat Twist & Twirl yarn or comparable (see below)
• Crochet hook, size J/10

• Row 1: Working in second row of openings from the top of the ribbon net, chain 210. Chain 1. Turn.
• Row 2: Single crochet in each chain stitch, catching the yarn through the second row of openings from the top. Chain 1. Turn.
• Rows 3-4: Single crochet in each single crochet, continuing to work through the second row of openings from the top of the ribbon net. 
• End by catching the entire thickness of the yarn and pulling it through the last stitch. Cut and pull tight to secure.

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