Ocean Currents Wrap: Free Scarf Knitting Pattern

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Ocean Currents Wrap

Turn the tides in your favor with our Ocean Currents Wrap knitting pattern! An easy-lace layer that’s both elemental and effervescent, it carries the calm beauty of a seascape and the drama of the ocean’s surprises.

To suggest the subtle shifts of color and texture in ocean depths and crests, we put together a sublime combo of yarns: earthy Cattail Silk for a grounding beach walk and wild Tussock for windswept surf.

Chart your (color) course with our Ocean Currents Wrap Bundle (no longer available), which comes in six wide-ranging palettes. Here we used Cattail Silk’s light-filled Willow Tea green with the bright blue blast of Tussock’s Cerulean Sea.

The lace pattern is a simple 4-row repeat, ideal for knitters who are new to stitch patterns or anyone who prefers their lacework less intricate. Barbara Walker, who wrote the definitive stitch pattern logs, calls it Bead Stitch. But we see those beads as drops in the ocean, and many drops make this wonderful, watery wrap!

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Materials

Yarn A: 2 skeins of Purl Soho’s Cattail Silk, 100% silk. Each skein of this fingering-weight yarn is 618 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 1,095 yards required. We used the color Willow Tea.
Yarn B: 4 skeins of Purl Soho’s Tussock, 60% super fine kid mohair and 40% silk. Each skein of this lace-weight yarn is 328 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 1,184 total yards required. We used the color Cerulean Sea.
US 4 (3.5 mm) circular or straight needles

Here are five more pretty palettes (NOTE: the Ocean Currents Wrap Bundles are no longer available.)…

Moon White + Gray Quartz

Yarn A: Cattail Silk in Moon White; Yarn B: Tussock in Gray Quartz

Porcelain White + Yellow Mimosa

Yarn A: Cattail Silk in Porcelain White; Yarn B: Tussock in Yellow Mimosa

Pale Wisteria + Bright Thistle

Yarn A: Cattail Silk in Pale Wisteria; Yarn B: Tussock in Bright Thistle

Rabbit-Ear Pink + Ripe Boysenberry

Yarn A: Cattail Silk in Rabbit-Ear Pink; Yarn B: Tussock in Ripe Boysenberry

Flower Field Gray + Bright Jade

Yarn A: Cattail Silk in Flower Field Gray; Yarn B: Tussock in Bright Jade

Gauge

25 stitches and 38 rows = 4 inches in stitch pattern, holding together a strand of Yarn A and a strand of Yarn B

Size

Finished Dimensions: Approximately 15 inches wide x 70 inches long

Note

Stitch Multiple

This stitch pattern works over a multiple of 7 + 2 stitches.

Pattern

With one strand of Yarn A and one strand of Yarn B, cast on 93 stitches. We used a basic Long Tail Cast On.

Set-Up Row (wrong side): Purl to end of row.

Row 1 (right side): *K2, knit 2 together (k2tog), yarn over (yo), k1, yo, slip slip knit (ssk), repeat from * to last 2 stitches, k2.

Row 2 (wrong side): P1, *purl 2 together through back loop (p2tog tbl), yo, p3, yo, purl 2 together (p2tog), repeat from * to last stitch, p1.

Row 3: *K2, yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo, repeat from * to last 2 stitches, k2.

Row 4: P1, *p2, yo, purl 3 together (p3tog), yo, p2, repeat from * to last stitch, p1.

Repeat Rows 1-4 until piece measures 70 inches from cast-on edge, ending with Row 4.

With the right side facing you, bind off knitwise.

Weave in the ends and gently wet block.

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LEARN ABOUT TUSSOCK + ALL OUR BEAUTIFUL YARNS

Tussock is impossible to replace! Spun and dyed in Japan, it is 60% super fine kid mohair, the softest quality there is, plus 40% silk, which is much more than most mohair-silk blends and makes for a super lustrous yarn. A fine lace-weight yarn, Tussock’s mohair blooms so beautifully that we prefer to knit it anywhere from a fingering- to worsted-weight gauge—either alone on US 3-8 needles or alongside other yarns for plumping up a companion or deepening its complexity. Choose from gorgeous colors inspired by juicy, ripe berries and mimosas in bloom, lapping waters and zippy wildflowers… Pure joy!

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