I’m not a house elf!

May 26, 2020

Sometimes, as Mothers, we feel like we are maids, or slaves or even house elves from the Harry Potter series. Well, I don’t want to be a house elf. I’m trying to teach my kids to do chores not just for their own good but for my sanity as well.

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Back to Harry Potter, We’ve been doing a movie marathon lately. Our marathons tend to skip several days though, and I’m waiting on my teenagers to let me know when we can watch the next movie. Meanwhile, I started working on a scarf from the movie genre.

crochet yellow and black scarf single crochet and half double crochet

What house do you belong to? I’m Hufflepuff, I think my youngest daughter is too. However as we find out in the series, you can basically choose for yourself what house you want to be in, just by talking to the sorting hat.

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So, this pattern or tutorial is for a DIY crochet Hufflepuff scarf but if you have the colors of yarn from the other houses you can adapt it. Yes, even Slytherin. The style of the scarf is the style from the first 2 movies with the big block of each color.

Materials:
Scissors

Ruler

Yarn

Worsted weight yarn
Look for the 4 on the label

Colors for Hufflepuff are yellow and black
The yellow should be lemony not a bright yellow
Yellow is Color A for Hufflepuff and Black is Color B

Colors for Gryffindor are maroon and gold
Maroon is color A and gold is Color B

Colors for Slytherin are green and gray
Green is Color A and gold is color B

Colors for Ravenclaw are blue and lighter gray
Blue is color A and Light gray is color B

Crochet hook size 5.00mm/H
To check if you have the correct crochet hook for the pattern, here is a crochet hook conversion tool.

Stitches:
sc = single crochet – Insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through the 2 loops.

hdc = half double crochet – yarn over and insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through all three loops on your hook at once.

Hufflepuff Scarf
With Color A
Ch 26

Row 1: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 2: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 3: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 4: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 5: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 6: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 7: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 8: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 9: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 10: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 11: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 12: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 13: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 14: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 15: sc across in all stitches (25) ch 1 and turn

Row 16: hdc in all stitches across (25) ch 1 and turn

Change colors to color B
Remember to change colors on the last part of the stitch in the very last stitch of row 16 and then make your turning chain with your new color

Rows 17 – 33 continue pattern from the first 16 rows. change back to color A for row 34
Rows – 34-84 -Color A
Rows – 85-101 – Color B