Tree Ring Scarf: Free Scarf Knitting Pattern

Введение

Tree Ring Scarf

Visually mapping each year of its life, from annual rainfall to the length of a growing season, tree rings are beautiful evidence of time’s passage. For many of us, our knitting does the same, marking challenges faced and good fortune granted. The Tree Ring Scarf, knit up in our lovely new Quartz yarn, beautifully chronicles past, present, and future, ring by ring.

You knit the Tree Ring Scarf in a simple tube, carrying the colors up the inside to minimize tails. Over the course of the scarf, both the colors and the distance between the stripes shift in a complex rhythm, like life itself!

The delicate lines of the knitting pattern are perfectly executed in our wonderful new Quartz yarn. Combining merino wool and suri alpaca into an absolutely lovely fingering-weight yarn, Quartz is lightweight but warm, very soft, and totally beautiful, too. With twenty enticing and gently heathered colors to play with, we’ve put together five Tree Ring Scarf Bundles (no longer available), including this glowing Rose Bark palette.

Whichever colors you choose, we’re going to go out on a limb and say you’ll love knitting your Tree Ring Scarf!

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Materials

5 skeins of Purl Soho’s Quartz, 65% merino and 35% suri alpaca. Each skein of this fingering weight yarn is 420 yards/ 100 grams.
- Color A: 2 skeins; approximately 532 yards required
- Color B: 1 skein; approximately 259 yards required
- Color C: 2 skeins; approximately 707 yards required
US 3 (3.25 mm), 16-inch circular needles
A stitch marker

We came up with five inspiring palettes (NOTE: the Tree Ring Scarf Bundles are no longer available.)…

ROSE BARK

This is the palette we used to knit our sample (see above)… NOTE: Some colors are no longer available.

Color A: Pink Starfish; Color B: Golden Green; Color C: Reed Gray

HERB GARDEN

Color A: Fresh Pickle; Color B: Barn Owl; Color C: Green Dusk

LAGOON

Color A: Aquamarine Blue; Color B: Blue Jeans; Color C: River Rock

MUSSEL SHELL

Color A: Hydrangea Blossom; Color B: Wild Lupine; Color C: Gray Denim

GLADIOLA

Color A: Cardinal Red; Color B: Rose Hip; Color C: Lavender Moon

Gauge

28 stitches and 40 rounds = 4 inches in stockinette stitch

Size

Finished Dimensions: Approximately 18 inches in circumference x 74 inches long

NOTE

STRIPES IN THE ROUND

To avoid a ton of tails to weave in at the end, be sure to carry non-working yarns up the inside of the tube in between stripes. For a few tips, visit our Stripes in the Round Tutorial!

Pattern

REVERSE STOCKINETTE EDGE

With Color A, cast on 126 stitches. We used a basic Long Tail Cast On.

Place marker and join for working in the round, being careful not to twist the stitches.

Rounds 1-3: Purl to end of round.

Round 4: Knit to end of round.

BLOCK 1: TWO-COLOR STRIPES

Join Color B.

Round 1: With Color B, knit to end of round.

Rounds 2–4: With Color A, knit to end of round.

Repeat Rounds 1–4 thirty more times, or for almost 12½ inches.

BLOCK 2: THREE-COLOR STRIPES

Round 1: With Color B, knit to end of round.

Round 2: With Color A, knit to end of round.

Join Color C.

Round 3: With Color C, knit to end of round.

Round 4: With Color A, knit to end of round.

Repeat Rounds 1–4 ten more times, or for almost 4½ inches.

BLOCK 3: THREE-COLOR STRIPES

Round 1: With Color B, knit to end of round.

Round 2: With Color C, knit to end of round.

Round 3: With Color A, knit to end of round.

Round 4: With Color C, knit to end of round.

Repeat Rounds 1–4 nine more times, or for 4 inches.

Cut Color A.

BLOCK 4: TWO-COLOR STRIPES

Round 1: With Color B, knit to end of round.

Rounds 2–4: With Color C, knit to end of round.

Repeat Rounds 1–4 six more times, or for 2¾ inches.

CONTINUE

Cut Color B.

With Color C, continue working in stockinette for approximately 26¼ inches from last Color B stripe.

Join Color B and repeat Block 4.

Join Color A and repeat Block 3. Do not Cut Color A at end of section.

Repeat Block 2.

Cut Color C.

Repeat Block 1.

With Color B, knit to end of round.

Cut Color B.

REVERSE STOCKINETTE EDGE

Round 1: With Color A, knit to end of round.

Rounds 2–4: Purl to end of round.

Bind off knitwise.

FINISHING

Weave in the ends and gently wet block.

LEARN ABOUT QUARTZ + ALL OUR BEAUTIFUL YARNS

Quartz brings a special glow to this project! A wonderful mix of 65% merino wool and 35% suri alpaca, this fingering-weight yarn is lustrous, radiant, and sumptuously soft. The addition of suri gives this yarn a lovely halo and subtle luminosity, while merino brings strength, elasticity, and of course, beauty. Choose from tons of gorgeous colors you’ll only find at Purl Soho!

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