Our free Marbled Scarf crochet pattern is a beginner-friendly project that celebrates the natural color flow of our beautiful Estuary yarn. The yarn does all the work here, with hand-dyed color as full of life as the mingling of river and sea!

Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho

This simple scarf is effortless to crochet, just classic granny stripes… And yet watching the color play unfold is utterly captivating, as jewel-like double crochet clusters break up pools of color into shimmering eddies.

Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho

A fingering-weight single-ply yarn, Estuary is a unique blend of fine merino wool, mulberry silk, and linen that relaxes and blooms beautifully into a soft, fluid crocheted fabric. The silk glows with a precious luster; the linen adds a hint of rustic charm; and the merino provides warmth and softness… Together, they create a fabric that feels and looks enchanting!

Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho
Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho

Every shade in Estuary’s palette begins with a warm white yarn, which then gets hand-dyed with a wash of color that leaves light sand bars among deeper lagoons. We combined two shades, Pink Phlox and Prairie Turnip, their pink, taupe, and cream tones creating a mesmerizing marble effect. Try Prairie Turnip with any Estuary color for a similar painterly effect or mix any two colors in the palette to create your own confluence of intertwining currents, ever-changing yet harmonious.

Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho

Each stitch you crochet will reveal new depths of beauty, each row a new surprise. Because every skein of this hand-dyed yarn is one of a kind, no two scarves will ever be exactly alike… Your Marbled Scarf will be a singular expression of color and movement that only your hands can create!

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Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho

Designed by Purl Soho designer, Gaby Bush.

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Materials

Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho
  • Purl Soho’s Estuary, 65% fine merino wool, 20% mulberry silk, and 15% linen. Each skein of this fingering-weight yarn is 384 yards/ 100 grams.
    • Main Color: 3 skeins; approximately 870 yards required. We used the color Pink Phlox.
    • Contrast Color: 2 skeins; approximately 575 yards required. We used the color Prairie Turnip.
  • A US D (3.25 mm) crochet hook

GAUGE

Eight 3-double crochet clusters and 17 rows = 4 inches

SIZE

Finished Dimensions: 11 inches wide x 70 inches long

NOTES

TECHNIQUES

Our How To Make A Granny Square Tutorial shows you how to do most of the techniques used in this pattern, including chain stitch, yarn over, and double crochet.

STITCH MULTIPLE

This pattern works over a multiple of 3 plus 1 stitches.

PATTERN

FOUNDATION ROW

IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER CROCHETER…

With Contrast Color (CC), chain (ch) 421.

Foundation Row (wrong side): Ch 1 [counts as 1 single crochet (sc)], and starting with second chain from hook, 1 single crochet (sc) into each ch to end, turn. [421 stitches]

IF YOU ARE A MORE EXPERIENCED CROCHETER…

With Contrast Color (CC), make a Foundation Single Crochet of 421 stitches, turn.

GRANNY STRIPE SECTION

Still with CC…

Set-Up Row (right side): Ch 3 [counts as 1 double crochet (dc) throughout], *skip 2 sc, 3 dc in next sc, repeat from * to end of row, turn. [140, 3-dc clusters]

** Granny Row: Ch 3, *3 dc into next space between dc clusters, repeat from * to last dc cluster, 3 dc into space between last dc cluster and ch-3, turn. [140, 3-dc clusters]

Cut CC.

Join MC with slip stitch in first stitch. Repeat Granny Row 2 times.

Cut MC and join CC with slip stitch in first stitch.

Repeat from ** 13 more times, until piece measures 10 inches from Foundation Row.

With CC, repeat Granny Row 2 times.

Last Row: Ch 1, 1 sc in each dc to end.

Fasten off.

FINISHING

Weave in ends and gently wet block.

Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho
Marbled Scarf | Purl Soho

Learn About Estuary + All Our Beautiful Yarns

This project beautifully showcases Estuary, our artful and exquisite hand-dyed yarn, in all its untamed beauty. A luminous single ply of fine merino wool, mulberry silk, and linen, this fingering-weight yarn is soft and lustrous, with just a little bit of wildness. Pick from a palette of earthy variegated colors, each one made by hand-dyeing 2 or 3 colors onto a warm white base… Knit swirling eddies of dark and light that catch the eye like light on water!

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