Three Easy Headbands

Wow, I feel like I am dragging myself. There's the mental me, who wants to be out and about, and she's got physical me around the waist with a length of rope and she's tugging me each and every place we have to go because physical me is just not having it. Just ugh.

Weirdo metaphors aside, I've been somewhat productive. I made the basic shirts for my "Free Fallin" design.

The right one is inside out. It's that kind of day.

The one on the left was made in the same style as the first Wave on Wave shirt, just a different color scheme. The one on the left was supposed to be from a pattern, but I messed it up. It was meant to use single crochet, but it clearly doesn't. It uses doubles. When I get them all together, I'll get you a pattern. These don't even have the ends done, let alone have the ruffles added.
But don't they look like fall? I was really quite pleased to have at least the color schemes work in my favor. The one on the right was meant to resemble falling leaves... maybe if you squint your eyes and give me some artistic license? Maybe? Lie to me and say it totally works.

I didn't get a picture, but I added 12 rows of white to Little Miss A's afghan. I'm quite happy to be getting some progress made on that.

The culmination of a few days' work. There's also a hat in there somewhere.

 

The white I've been using has come from a blanket that wasn't quite working out. I finally ripped it back to the essential middle. I'll be sewing the ends together and making a cowl of it.

That's just a BIC pen, so you can see how long it is. Just a tip: always make a middle rectangle SMALLER than what you think it should be. This would've taken a decade to work out to be as wide as it needed to be.

 

I wasn't going to put a pattern on here, truth to tell. I had a few that were knocking around my brain, but they would take so freaking long to type out and proofread and all that jazz that I just couldn't convince myself to do it. But... these are so simple they're barely patterns. As per usual, you can pretty them up any way you please.

 

Kindly ignore my excessively gray hair, thanks.

 

The Blue and White One (if I think of clever titles later, I'll edit)

-used Red Heart Navy and White

-used "H" Bates hook

-multiple of absolutely any number. seriously, it's not important

-changed colors on last step of last stitch of previous color

 

Round 1: chain 71. hdc in back ridge of second chain from hook. hdc in back ridges across. connect with slip stitch to first hdc made. (70 stitches)

Round 2: chain 2, dc in same stitch. dc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first dc made.

Round 3: chain 1, hdc in same stitch. hdc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first hdc made.

Round 4: chain 1, sc in same stitch. sc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first sc made.

Round 5: chain 1, hdc in same stitch. hdc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first hdc made.

Round 6: chain 2, dc in same stitch. dc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first dc made.

Round 7: chain 1, hdc in same stitch. hdc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first dc made.

 

Don't like my method? Then it reads like this:

Chain 71, hdc in second chain from hook and every remaining chain.

dc

hdc

dc

sc

dc

hdc

 

Notes:

-Absolutely nothing fiddly about this at all

 

Modifications:

-Seriously, you can do anything with this.

-use a different hook

-use different yarn

-play with starting chain/hook/yarn combinations

-use different stitches - throw some puffs in there or trebles or use all one stitch

-sew on a flower or a button

- use the Hippie Headband method and add a chain and flowers/circles

 

 

The, um, mainly white one? My brain is broken.

 

The Accent Row one

-same specs as above except this is Red Heart and Caron One Pounder

 

Round 1: chain 71, hdc in back ridge of second chain from hook. hdc in back ridge of remaining chains. connect with slip stitch to first hdc made. (70)

Round 2: chain 3, tr in same stitch. tr in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first tr made.

Round 3: chain 2, dc in same stitch. dc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first dc made.

Round 4: chain 3, tr in same stitch. tr in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first tr made.

Round 5: chain 1, hdc in same stitch. hdc in each stitch around. connect with slip stitch to first hdc made.

 

Simple pattern

chain 71, hdc in each chain starting with second chain from hook

treble

double

treble

half double

 

Pretty much the same notes and mods from above.

 

The Ripply One! Yeah, that's not very clever either...

I didn't get a picture with this one on my head. Don't know why.

 

The Ripply One <-- apparently, not a real word

-used Caron One Pounder and Red Heart

-used "H" Bates hook

-must be a multiple of 14

- - - if you need something slightly longer/shorter, I would recommend changing your hook size rather than your sets of multiples. Adding/taking 14 is a significant length in a headband.

 

***This is the same as the second Wave on Wave shirt. As such, this pattern is NOT mine. It's my modification of Lucy's Neat Ripple from Attic24.***

 

Round 1: chain 71. hdc in back ridge of second chain from hook. hdc in remaining back ridges. connect with slip stitch to first hdc made. (70)

Round 2: chain 2 (dc, dc, 2dctog, 2dctog, dc, dc, dc, dc, 2dc, 2dc, dc, dc) around.

*I put the first dc in the same stitch as the chain 2 and connected my rounds with a slip stitch to the first dc made.*

Repeat Round 2 as needed. I used five Round 2s.

Last Round: chain 1, hdc in same stitch. hdc in each stitch around.

 

Notes:

-I start and end this with a hdc round. I do this because the first round of any ripple pattern tends to be a bit spotty. The stitches separate and pull. A foundation to work into alleviates some of this. It also "eases" a bit of your ripple. If you want a RIPPLE effect, lose the top and bottom rows and work directly into your chain.

 

Modifications:

- I haven't tried this in different stitches, so I really don't know. My best suggestion would be to play with it and see what happens. That's all I've got for today.

 

 

I made these because my mother suggested it. I asked her what I should make because I couldn't think of anything (again, with the brain fog) and she suggested head/earwarmers. Why? Because we went to a parade this weekend and had NO YARNY THINGS. How does that happen? I spend nearly any still moment with a hook in one hand and a yarn-feed in the other. Oh, it was so cold and wet and windy and miserable. So I came up with some headbands. And they're all a bit wide to actually cover the ear.

 

A crocheter with no hat.

No ear warmer.

No headband.

No neckwarmer.

No cowl.

No small afghan.

Nothing.

Genius!

 

ugh...

 

Thanks for stopping by and laughing at/with me today!