The Philosopher's Wife: crochet skinny scarf

I'm not really into a lot of lace. Sure, it has a time and place, and little touches of it can be quite elegant, but generally speaking it just isn't me. That means that I tend to shy away from crochet patterns with the word "lace" in the title. Plus, I don't really have any yarn or thread that would be appropriate for lace. (When it hits a rock bottom price at Michael's, or shows up at my Dollar Tree, or I stumble on some in some other way then I might pick some up!) However, while flipping through a library book I came across a lace pattern with violets in between lots of trellis work. Those violets looked awesome--and I thought that they were "me" so I decided to adapt the pattern to something that I would like.

My original idea was to take a couple of rows of the lace pattern and make a year round open and airy scarf/belt. I planned on using a cheerful color of yarn that should work for any season. I wanted it to be fairly skinny and long to allow for various wrapping, draping, and tying combinations.

Not having the finer crochet thread, I opted to use some of my Peaches and Creme pink and purple yarn. It is easy to work with and 100% cotton. First I worked some trellises (pretty much just chains and single crochet--dramatic and yet simple). They looked pretty cool, but it was a little too big open for me using the larger hook and yarn combination; plus, I really wanted this project to be skinny and if I had two rows of trellis, a row of violets, and two more rows of trellis it would be pretty wide. So I scratched the trellis work and opted for a row of single crochet to work the violets into. (That is one nice thing about crocheting--if something doesn't turn out how you'd like all you have to do is unravel it. No biggie.)

Then I began working on the violets. They are mostly constructed of treble puffs. I had to make a couple of changes to the pattern here and there to account for all of the differences (yarn, hook, trellis vs. single crochet, etc). Two of the petals are worked in the first row with the other three being worked into the next row.