Use 5.5 mm/US I hook
Beads: Bliss Beads 5 mm Silver Plated Spring Coil Beads, using the spacer beads from the strand on every other picot as well.

I LOVE this scarf! It looks like a candy cane lightly dusted with snow, and the silver beads add that something special. Great pattern, great final piece, crocheted quickly, what’s not to love?

Mods

2 rows of each color, carrying the unused color loosely along the edge
Only 22 pattern rows due to amount of yarn, did HDCs on row 22 due to almost running out of yarn. Ran out of yarn anyway. Back to 20 rows of pattern, then the picot edging!