Hi everyone! I hope you’ve had a great start to your week! Over the weekend, I knit a double sided headband and I am super excited to share the pattern with you! I used some nicer yarn for this than my regular lion brand, including the Cascasde 220 Yarn Superwash DK in Gray
Pattern:
- Cast on 14
- Knit one, purl one, alternating until the end of the row (the last stitch should be a purl stitch)
- Purl one, knit one, alternating until the end of the row (the last stitch should be a knit stitch)
- Continue steps 2 and 3 for approximately 155 rows (or until you can fit the headband around your head) and cast off.
- Repeat steps 1-4 with a second color of your choice.
Then, I recommend sewing together the beginning and the end of the headband on both colors to make a complete circle. I did just leave the strings hanging down at the end because I am going to wrap them around the front as the last step.
Next, to form the double sided headband, I did a row of single crochet around the top and the bottom. In the picture below, you can see I haven’t yet sewed the two ends together, but I definitely recommend doing that first. You can also just sew the two pieces together with a yarn needle, but I liked to look of the border.
Lastly, you can take the excess yarn and wrap around the part that you sewed together as many times as you can to make a nice detail in the front. Then, pull the end of the yarn underneath the multiple layers and tie off, hiding the knot.
Here is the grey side of the finished headband. I am really loving it and I like that I can change the side based on what I am wearing. I also love how easy and quick it was to make!
I hope you enjoyed this pattern and thanks for reading!
– Hannah
Neat!! Super cool! It looks very pretty on you! ❤
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Aww thanks!!
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My pleasure! ❤
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This is really cute! I’ve been meaning to make another headband for a while. I made some out of chunky wool a while ago as Christmas gifts, but would love to try this pattern 🙂
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Thanks! It’s a super easy one.
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Posts like these make me want to learn how to knit! When I first learned how to crochet, I desperately hoped that there was an equivalent to a knitted seed stitch. I just love the texture.
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I love the texture too. I definitely started knitting for the stitches you can’t do with crochet because I can crochet so much faster than I can knit.
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That’s really cute ! thanks for the easy tutorial !
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I’m happy you liked it!
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All your designs are super beautiful thank you 🙏
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Thanks so much!!
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I wonder (because I’m lazy) if you could double the amount of stitches cast on and add one extra stitch, then that middle stitch (extra stitch) could be a stockinette stitch so it would fold over? That way you wouldn’t have to sew up the side (see I told you I was lazy, they say necessity is the mother of invention, I personally think it’s laziness :P).
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Haha they way you say that sounds complicated, but I’m sure you are right that it would be easier to knit it up that way.
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I’m definitely not a great pattern writer, (tho I have written a couple of patterns, it’s a slow tedious task for me) so it may sound complicated but honest it’s not :P. I see it in my head. 🙂 Off to test my hypothesis.
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I wonder (because I’m lazy) if you could double the amount of stitches cast on and add one extra stitch, then that middle stitch (extra stitch) could be a stockinette stitch so it would fold over? That way you wouldn’t have to sew up the side (see I told you I was lazy, they say necessity is the mother of invention, I personally think it’s laziness is the mother if invention :P).
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