One thing I did manage to complete was a headband for another friend. I’d offered to do her a tuque (that’s a traditional winter knit cap, to those non-Canadians reading this) to wear as she walked to work through Toronto’s winter cold, but she finds herself overheated with a hat. We were talking about earmuffs, when I remembered earlier thoughts that the Knifty Knitter round-loom cap instructions for making the brim of the cap could probably easily be turned into a double-thickness headband to keep the ears comfy warn.Here’s the pattern I came up with.
Fuzzy Double-Thick Winter Headband
Free pattern (for personal use only).
Technique: French Knitting, also know as looming or spooling. This pattern uses double-stitch, which provides a tighter, more wind-proof finish to the headband, and the ribbing bind-off method.
Sizes: Small adult or large adult, depending on which loom is used
Materials:
- Knifty Knitter Round Loom -- green for small-adult size or yellow for large-adult size
- Knifty Knitter Hook
- 1 skein Bernat Boa Cardinal eyelash yarn
- 1/2 skein Red Heart Classic Black worsted-weight acrylic yarn
- Tapestry needle
Step 1: Using a strand each of the boa and the worsted-weight yearn held together, e-wrap the loom three times counter-clockwise. There will be three loops on each peg when you are done.
Step 2: Lift the bottom loop on each peg over the top two loops and peg. When you have completed the entire circle, you will have two rows of loops remaining on the pegs.
Step 3: E-wrap the loom. You should now have three loops on each peg once again.
Step 4: Repeat Step 2.
Continue repeating steps 3 an 4 until your knitting measures 6.5 inches long (7 inches for larger size).
Step 5: For the last row, do NOT add a third loop to the pegs. With only two loops remaining on each peg, lift the bottom loop over the top loop.
Step 6: Pull your knitting through the inside of the loom to access the beginning edge. Place each loop from the originating row over its corresponding peg (hint: start by placing the loop to the right of the original loose yarn over the peg to the right of the outer tie-off peg and continue around the circle counter-clockwise until you have two loops on each peg – the bottom loop being from the last row you knit and the top loop being from the edge.)
Step 7: Lift the bottom loop over the top loop, until only a single row of loops remain on the pegs, and the bottom and top of your knitting has been knit together to form a double-thick band.
Step 8: Cast off using the ribbing bind-off method.
8a: To get the proper length of tail to work with, wrap the working yarn around the whole circle three times, then cut. Thread the end into the tapestry needle.
8b: Starting with the peg to the right of the tie-off peg, run the needle and thread down through the loop on that peg.
8c: Then bring the needle and thread up through the loop on the peg to the left of the one you just did.
8d: Now, skipping the peg to the right (the one where you sewed downward) and holding the yarn behind the skipped peg, sew downward through the loop on the next peg.
8e: Sew the yarn up through the loop on the peg to the left (which will have already been sewn through downward during step 8b.
Repeat Steps 8d and 8e until all the loops have both up and down stitches.
8f: Remove the loops from the pegs and weave in the tail of the yarn.
Step 9: Roll the cast-off seam to the inside where it can’t be seen, and your headband is ready to wear.
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