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Tagswhat to do with leftover sock yarn (another free pattern)
My new haircut, which is actually a month old, is still taking getting used to. Honestly, I hate it. Detest it. I can’t keep it out of my face, and it never sits quite right. I get lots of compliments, but I think mostly people are inspired to say “ohmigod, you chopped off all your hair!” and then they have to say something nice. I guess I don’t really hate the way it looks, I mostly hate living with it. I’m just twiddling my thumbs until it grows out enough to start cutting to a consistent length, and hopefully someday I’ll have a normal haircut again. But in the meantime I’m making prodigious use of bobby pins to hold it back.
It’s nice to have a little variety, though, so this weekend over the course of a few short hours, I made up this little headband.
Lace Headband
Yarn: Schaefer Yarn’s Anne, originally used for my Pomatomus. Ended up with a nice striping effect with such a narrow band. Used up a miniscule amount of yarn; I don’t know exactly how much.
Needles: 2.25 mm for the I-cord, 2.5 mm for the band
Stitch: Vine Lace, picked out of my gal Barbara Walker’s first Treasury of Knitting Patterns; I believe this is the lace used in the Orangina top so many bloggers have made, but I haven’t ever seen that pattern, just pictures of the FOs.
Started: Saturday, July 8
Finished: Sunday, July 9
Total time: 2 hours? 3?
Pattern: So easy it doesn’t warrant pdf treatment . . .
Cast on 3 stitches. Work I-cord for 5 inches.
Working in stockinette, increase on every knit row until you have 15 stitches. (I did “Make 1″s, M1R on the right hand side [one stitch in], M1L on the left [before the last stitch], but you could just increase into the first and last stitch. Makes no diff.)
Change to slightly larger needles and begin pattern.
Row 1 (WS): Purl
Row 2: K3, yo, k2, ssk, k2tog, k2, yo, k4
Row 3: Purl
Row 4: K4, yo, k2, ssk, k2tog, k2, yo, k3
Repeat until desired length, about 20 inches, or until the band almost meets around your head while being pulled a bit. Depends on the size of your noggin.
Change to slightly smaller needles and begin decreasing.
Decrease at beginning and end of all right-side rows until you have 3 stitches left. (I ssk’d on the right hand side and k2togged on the left, one stitch in, until I had 5 stitches left. The last decrease row went like this: ssk the first two stitches, k1, k2tog the last two stitches.)
Work I-cord for about 5 inches, or to match length of I-cord at other end.
Bind off.
Draw ends into the I-cord. Block it to get it to sit flat.
Wear!
23 Responses to what to do with leftover sock yarn (another free pattern)
That’s a great idea! I am getting my hair massively chopped off as soon as I can get my hair salon to answer the damn phone, and I really ought to whip out a couple of these in short order. I’m not sure I have any leftover sock yarn lying around, though. Well, I bet I can dig something up. Geez, more rambling! Point is, really cute headband.
Very cute headband! I think I’ll make one for Noey! Thanks for the pattern. I’m having a hair crisis at the moment myself….can’t decide if I’m growing it out or not!
I LOVE IT! I have so many little tiny balls of sock yarn lying around — definitely not enough to even make socks for the boys. Plus, with the colors I buy, they might get teased just a LITTLE. LOL! Now I have something to do with all of it. Yay!
The last time I got my haircut, my stylist convinced me that I needed some “long sweeping bangs”. Well, if I spend a lot of time on my hair, it does look nice, and there is the potential for a rockin’ Veronica Lake look. But come on! What’s the likelihood of that? Most days I definitely need something to hold those bangs back.
Thanks!! I’ve been looking for a narrow headband – as I have a teeeny-weeny head!
Well, I have my own hair woes, though they mainly center around “will so-and-so think my hair is okay enough to be in her wedding?”
I personally love your new haircut, and I don’t have to be nice about it if I don’t want to, so you can trust me. But you’re certainly allowed to hate it–it’s on your head, after all, not mine.
After my most recent chop, I could use a headband. Thanks for the idea and pattern.
Amy
Very cool, I might have to make one for my niece…
Yay! Cute! We’ve been having insanely gross humidity for weeks–I need all the headbands I can get.
Wow, I was just thinking about what to do with some left over Lorna’s Laces and decided to look for a recipe for a good headband! You just made my week. I love the way your hair looks in it.
Hey–just wanted to let you know your link to the Orangina top doesn’t work (the link works, but it doesn’t go to a picture, it goes to a place where the picture doesn’t work). I don’t actually need to see the picture, but as one anal proofreader to another, I thought I’d give you a heads up. :)
I’m knitting this up in a candy pink and green handpainted sock yarn for a seven-year-old’s birthday. It’s coming up beautifully. Thanks for the pattern!
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What a cool idea!!! Thanks!!
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LOVE IT! My daughter is going to love this!
I am a beginning knitter and I do not know what an I-cord is or how to make one. I want to try the cute headband. Thanks, Tecla Blood
When I printed out the lace headband pattern, it cuts off the last half of each line. How can I get the pattern shifted to the left so the entire pattern will print?
My printer cut half the directions off.
Tecla Blood Hon, go to You Tube, and type in knitted i-cord…they are really simple, although I have never made one, but I just may try this one…usuaqlly you use a dpn (double pointed needle) to make a separate i-cord…
And to the author…I personally ADORE short hair…I have been working with my own hair since I was in high school…always got it cut short, and at the time, the duck-tail was in fashion…I curled my hair, yes, set it in either rollers or bobby pins after having it cut into a duck tail at the beauty shop…then in the morning when it was dry, I brushed the tail up in the back, and then pinned some artificial flowers at the top of the tail…against the head, (with bobby pins). I have been wearing my hair short ever since and have been out of high school for 60+ years. ;-] …so I happen to LOVE short hair…(I have even just now ordered a couple of wigs since my very fine hair just doesn’t hold ant style for long…I ordered SHORT and VERY SHORT wigs…
Hi, this looks great but I don’t know what I-cord or stockinette stitch is. Could you explain? Is it knit one row and then purl the next? I have so much to learn!
Perfect for ballet class! And I have lots and lots of leftover sock yarn!