Back in 2020, when I learned how to crochet, I travelled to Berlin for a few weeks in the summer. It was during Covid, and the vaccines weren't out yet, so it was impossible to travel farther, given the restrictions.

I finished Bobbelicious in Berlin and got excited about crocheting, so I checked every crocheting store in Berlin. I happened to find a yarn I fell in love with. In a small store, a few minutes’ walk from Modulor in Berlin, such a small and beautiful rainbow yarn peeked out at me. It had only a hundred grams with a length of 315 meters.

The yarn is called 1-2-3 Ideen Pro Lana and has absolutely perfect colour transitions. I'd been wondering what to make of it for months until I came across a picture of a scarf with zigzag rows. I narrowed the zigzag pattern and created my own scheme, then started working.

The advantage of long, narrow stuff is that it grows very fast. However, what I can't do in crocheting at all is estimate the material consumption and the final product size. I'm probably not skilled enough yet.

The crocheting of the scarf went smoothly. When the work grows fast, it helps a lot with motivation. In the end, I used up three yarns. I deliberately didn't want to use two or four yarns because I wanted the ends of the scarf to have different colours. The ends are usually the most visible on scarves. The middle part is usually rolled around the neck :)

However, I changed something in the yarn. The product photo of the yarn shows that the first few tens of centimetres are white – but that would make a hard transition on my scarf. There was just a little of the white colour. So, I cut it from the yarn and started and ended with dark yellow.

The scarf is quite long – 246 centimetres long and 24 centimetres wide. The material feels good on the skin; it's 100% cotton. And those transitions, they’re great; you don't see transitions like these every day.

The scarf didn't need any special ending; I just finished a row.

Here is the schema of my scarf. I try to draw my schemas before I get into making it, to learn the schema well and not make mistakes while I’m crocheting it.