Crochet Cool Santa Reindeer Scarf » Colour Ceilidh Crochet

If you’re looking for crochet Christmas gifts ideas, welcome to this free pattern for a novelty crochet scarf and stitch! This easy crochet scarf uses my Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch which is super fun, cool, textured and unique. Make a Christmas scarf they’ll never forget or a festive crochet blanket or an afghan with it. It goes well with the granny stitch because it’s based on the granny stitch!

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The Yarn

I’m using medium weight yarn in five basic colors, white, black, blue, red and brown. I picked Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice and a large hook and it was a real pleasure to make this scarf. Because it looks fantastic and it worked up fast!

I also tried this stitch with the puff stitch instead of the bobble stitch and in light DK yarn and it looked just as nice, which means it’s great for blankets.

Design & Stitches

I call it the cool Santa reindeer stitch because each little reindeer has a granny Santa beard, a red bobble stitch Rudolph nose, a brown granny head, a black pair of sunglasses and a Santa hat with a bobble pom pom.

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Description

Size

The scarf measures approx 73 X 4.7 ” / 185 X 11.9 cm.

Care Instructions

The Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice yarn is a 100% acrylic. It’s machine washable at 30 C / 86 F.

Pattern Notes

Project difficulty: Easy!
You can use the puff stitch instead of the bobble stitch.
You can use different yarn weight.

I use the magic knot to change the color without tails.
If you want to know how many reindeer heads you’ll have, take away 1 from the multiple of 3 number. For example, if my multiple of 3 is 5, I’ll have 4 reindeer heads in my swatch (like in the video).
Sourcing the yarn: Amazon, Lion Brand website, LoveCrafts, Deramores

Crochet Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch & Scarf Video Tutorial

Crochet Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch Scarf

Materials

Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice (4 / Medium / Aran weight, 100 g / 3.5 oz, 156 m / 170 yd, 100% acrylic). 1 skein each of White, Scarlet, Colonial Blue, Chocolate and Black. (You’ll need only about 74, 48, 37, 20 and 6 grams of each color, respectively)
Size J / 7 mm hook.

Scissors.
Yarn needle.

Gauge

As per pattern below, 11 rows are about 4.7 ” tall and 4 reindeer heads or 4 granny stitch clusters measure about 4″ wide. Also, rows 2 – 10, inclusive (from beard to pom pom), measure about 4″ tall.

Abbreviations (US Terms)

blo: back loop only
BPdc: back post double crochet
ch: chain

dc: double crochet
dc3tog: double crochet three together. Work 3 partial double crochet stitches over the indicated stitches, leaving the last loop of each partial dc on the hook. So yarn over, insert hook in the first indicated stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through 2 loops and stop there. Work two more partial double crochet stitches in the same way over the next two indicated stitches. Then yarn over and draw through all loops on hook
dc5tog: double crochet five together, or the bobble stitch. Work 5 partial double crochet stitches into the same stitch leaving the last loop of each on the hook. So yarn over, insert hook in the indicated stitch, yarn over and pull through, yarn over and pull through 2 loops and stop there. Repeat 4 more times. Yarn over and draw through all loops on hook

flo: front loop only
FPdc: front post double crochet
rep: repeat

sc: single crochet
sl: slip
st: stitch

t: turn

Pattern Overview

Make the first row and the Santa beard with the granny and single crochet stitches.
Crochet the reindeers with bobble noses, granny stitch heads and single crochet sunglasses.

Complete the stitch with Santa hats made of single crochet stitches, double crochet clusters and bobble pom poms.

Pattern

This free pattern for the Crochet Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch Scarf is broken into the Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch and the Ribbing.

Crochet Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch

This stitch is a multiple of 3 + 1 + 1. The stitch count is the base chain minus 1.

For the Crochet Cool Santa Reindeer Stitch Scarf, chain 188.

BLUE BACKGROUND

Row1 (Blue) Sc in 2nd ch from hook and every st, change color in last, t.

SANTA BEARD

Row2 (White) Ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in same st, *skip 2 sts, 3 dc in next st; rep from *, ending last rep with skipping 2 sts, 2 dc in last st, t.

Row3 (White) Ch 1, sc in same st and every st, sc to top of ch-3, change color in last st, t.

NOSE

Row4 (Red) Ch 1, sc in same st, *sl st – flo in next st 2 times, dc5tog (bobble) in next st; rep from *, ending last rep with last sl st, sc in last st, change color in last st, t.

HEAD

Row5 (Brown) Ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in same st, skip 1 st, *3 dc in next st, skip 2 sts; rep from *, ending last rep with 3 dc, skip 3 sts, 2 dc in last st, change color in last st, t.

SUNGLASSES

Row6 (Black) Ch 1, sc in same st, *ch 1, skip 1 st, sc in next st two times; rep from *, ending last rep with first sc, sc to top of ch-3, change color in last st, t.

Row7 (White) Ch 1, sc in same st and next st, *sc in ch-1 space, sc-blo in next 2 sts; rep from *, ending last rep with sc in ch-1 space, sc in last st, t.

SANTA HAT

Row8 (White) Ch 1, sc in same st and every st, change color in last st, t.

Row9 (Red) Ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in same st, skip 2 sts, *dc3tog – blo over next 3 sts, ch 2; rep from *, ending last rep with ch 2, dc -blo in last st, change color in last st, t.

POM POM

Row10 (White) Ch 1, sc in same st, *dc5tog (bobble) in ch-2 space, sc in next st two times (to top of Santa’s hat); rep from *, ending last rep with second sc (no pom pom between last two red clusters), sc in next st, sc to top of ch-3, change color in last st, t.

BLUE BACKGROUND

Row11 (Blue) Ch 3, dc in same st, 3 dc in next space between red clusters, 3 dc in next space after Santa’s hat pom pom; rep from *, 2 dc in last st after the last pom pom.

Ribbing

Two rows of ribbing are added to both ends of the scarf.

Join Red with a slip stitch join and facing the right side of the scarf, make a chain 3 and crochet double crochet stitches into gaps behind stitches at the end of rows as follows. Make a double crochet stitch into every space behind single crochet stitches and two double crochet stitches into every space behind double crochet stitches.

Row1 (Red) Ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in every space behind end of row stitches, placing 2 dc in every space where end of row was a dc, t.

Row2 (Red) Ch 2 (counts as st), skip first post, *FPdc around next post, BPdc around next post; rep from *, fasten off.

More Ideas

Here is the Little Christmas Trees stitch tutorial by Oombawka Design Crochet, the Ho Ho Ho scarf by Crystalized Designs and the Christmas Tree Hat Scarf by Nicki’s Homemade Crafts. 18 Free Christmas Crochet Patterns for Holiday Crafting by Cream of the Crop Crochet has a few nice ideas, and so does 25+ Free Christmas Crochet Patterns For Beginners by Hative.

If you love this scarf, you will probaly like my Easy Crochet Cool Santa Stitch.

And more crochet Christmas patterns from me!

Well Done!

I hope you enjoyed this free crochet pattern for the Cool Santa Reindeer Scarf. What should I crochet next? See you in my next pattern!

Happy crocheting!

Justina