Scarves & Cowls Crochet Patterns

Between them these cover the three shapes: a long straight scarf, a closed cowl, and two triangle shawls.

The finished sizes are worth reading before you choose, because scarves are where yarn budgets go wrong. The Meadow Scarf is 7.5 by 70 inches for an adult and 5.5 by 49 for a child, in worsted on a J hook. The Meadow Cowl is 9 inches tall by 12.5 wide laid flat and takes about 230 yards. The Alpine Meadows Triangle Scarf is a large shawl with a tassel finish worked from a single 580-yard Mandala cake on a J hook, and the Asymmetric Triangle is 35.5 inches across by 18.5 deep from the same one-cake budget.

That one-cake construction is the reason the two shawls are the best value in the category: you buy one thing, you use all of it, and the color gradient does the design work for you. Nothing is left over and nothing runs out three rows from the end.

Both triangle shawls are intermediate. The Meadow Scarf and the Boho Skinny Scarf are the beginner entry points - a straight scarf is nothing but the same row repeated, which makes it a good place to learn a new stitch pattern properly.

Substituting yarn? Run it through the yarn calculator first - a scarf at the wrong gauge gets long before it gets wide.