You are going to love this crochet beach wrap. It’s a lovely wide and long crochet scarf featuring basic crochet stitches all the way up to the tallest crochet stitches.
You can wear it wrapped around you over a bikini or use it as a beach towel to sit on while on the beach.
Being a big summer beach cover up, it’s quite lightweight.
Make this crochet beach wrap and add it to your summer wardrobe.
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How To Crochet The Crochet Beach Wrap
The crochet beach wrap is a quite easy crochet pattern to follow, as it’s worked back and forth in rows.
Featuring only basic crochet stitches, from the single crochet stitch to the all the tall crochet stitches, you’ll enjoy making this.
Finish it off with some lovely fringe in the end.
Yarn For The Crochet Beach Wrap
To make this crochet cover up you are going to yarn weight 2 fine yarn or sport yarn.
The crocheted sample is made in Denim Breeze from Hobbii Yarns, but you can easily substitute the yarn to any yarn you have available.
The crochet beach wrap will look amazing using bamboo yarn, cotton yarn and even acrylic yarn.
You may get away with swapping to other yarn thicknesses, like fingering weight yarn, dk weight yarn, worsted weight yarn or even bulky weight yarn. Make sure to adjust the number of stitches you have for the width and work as many rows as you need for the length.
Easy Beach Cover-Up Pattern
This beach cover up pattern isn’t a complex design, rather a big scarf or blanket to wear around your body or over your shoulders. You can even wear it around your hips like a sarong or skirt.
Wear it as a cover-up dress wrapped around you or over the shoulders with a tank top and skinny jeans.
It’s a beginner friendly crochet pattern, as there’s no difficult stitches.
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The Crochet Beach Wrap Pattern Summary
You are going to love the Crochet Beach Wrap, a lovely blanket scarf to use as a beach coverup.
Wear it wrapped around you over your bikini when going to the beach or as a shawl over your shoulder when wearing a tee shirt dress.
On sunny days it’s great to have a swimsuit cover up, and this crochet beach wrap is perfect for that.
Even use it as a crochet blanket to sit on while on the beach.
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Materials Needed For The Crochet Beach Wrap
Crochet Hook
Hook I used: Symphonie Rose Crochet Hooks from Knitpro
Yarn
Yarn used:
Hobbii – Denim Breeze in color 6.
How much yarn needed for the Beach Blanket Scarf:
10 skeins / 500 g / 1000 m / 1090 yards
Yarn characteristics:
- 2 fine yarn, Sport yarn.
- 80% Recycled cotton, 15% Cotton, 5% Other fibers
Other Materials Needed
- Needle, find one here
- Scissors
- Tape Measure
Gauge
Measured over quintuple treble crochet crocheted in rows:
12 stitches & 2 rows per 10 cm / 4”.
Crochet Pattern Notes
- This crochet pattern is written in US terms.
- All measurements given are unblocked.
- Note that measurements are given as exact as possible. But crochet tension & technique might give variations in the result, that changes from person to person.
- Read pattern instructions carefully before beginning to make sure you understand everything. It might save you hours frogging your work & crocheting it again!
- Make a swatch that measure at least 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4 inches using the stitch the gauge is given for. If your swatch matches the gauge, you’re good to go. If the gauge is wrong, you might need to change your hook. Go up in crochet hook size if your stitches are smaller & go down in crochet hook size if your stitches are bigger. Learn more about testing gauge.
- Check yarn info if you want to find an alternative or test your yarn against the gauge. Learn more about substituting yarn.
- This pattern is written for 1 size, however size adjustments are suggested under the heading “Size & Measurements”.
- At the end of each row, the stitch count is given in parenthesis.
Size and Measurements
Width: 60 cm / 23.6 inches
Length: 147 cm / 57.9
Size Adjustments
- Start with more/less stitches to make the crochet beach wrap wider or narrover.
- Crochet more/less rows to make the crochet wrap longer or shorter.
Abbreviations
- ch = chain(s)
- hdc = half double crochet
- dc = double crochet
- dtr = double treble crochet
- qtr = quadruple treble crochet
- quintr = quintuple treble crochet
- rep = repeat
- sc = single crochet
- st = stitch(es)
- tr = treble crochet
- trtr = triple treble crochet
We try our best to include all crochet abbreviations in the list above for the crochet pattern, but sometimes we may forget one or two.
Learn more about crochet abbreviations & find a complete list on our Crochet Abbreviations & Terms post.
Stitches Used In The Crochet Pattern
Basic Crochet Stitches & Tall Stitches
You will need to know all the basic crochet stitches and tall crochet stitches to crochet this wrap.
Crochet Beach Wrap Instructions
Main Part
FSC 80 st.
Row 1: Ch 1 (counts as 1st st), sc 1 in each st, turn (=80 st).
Row 2: Ch 2 (counts as 1st st), hdc 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 3: Ch 3 (counts as 1st st), dc 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 4: Ch 4 (counts as 1st st), tr 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 5: Ch 5 (counts as 1st st), dtr 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 6: Ch 6 (counts as 1st st), trtr 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 7: Ch 7 (counts as 1st st), qtr 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 8: Ch 8 (counts as 1st st), quintr 1 in each st , turn (=80 st).
Row 9: Rep row 7.
Row 10: Rep row 6.
Row 11: Rep row 5.
Row 12: Rep row 4.
Row 13: Rep row 3.
Row 14: Rep row 2.
Row 15 – row 70: Rep row 1-14.
Row 71: Rep row 1.
Fasten off & cut yarn.
Fringe
Add fringe to short edge of the crochet beach wrap.
- Cut strands of yarn about 9 in. (23 cm) long.
- For each fringe, hold 1 strands of yarn and fold in half.
- Use the crochet hook to draw the fold through the edge of the piece, forming a loop.
- Pull ends of fringe through this loop and pull to tighten.
- Make 1 fringe per stitch along the short edge of the crochet wrap.
- Trim fringe evenly to about 3.5 in. (9 cm).
Finishing & Assembly
Block shawl to shape, the taller stitches has a tendency to turn out wider, so block the lower stitches to the same width.
Fasten threads & weave in ends.
