The knitted headband is a fashionable accessory that is practical and at the same time adds a special charm to the image. Even a novice needlewoman can easily master the work of creating such a product, perform several options for different clothes and hairstyles. With a little skill, you can knit a headband with knitting needles in one evening.
Basic rules for knitting headbands
- A topical accessory that will protect your ears from the cold and look beautiful on your hair can be made in many patterns. All kinds of braids and other reliefs look good, but you can get by with an ordinary elastic band or "tangled", and decorate the finished product with a brooch, beads, knitted accessory, etc. Textured yarn, such as "grass", as well as fur thread do not require additional decoration.
- It is easier to knit a headband with knitting needles in straight and reverse rows: you get a strip of a certain height with one seam. If desired, a seamless tubular fabric is made round on stocking needles.
- To determine the length of the future product, find out with the help of a tailor's meter the circumference of the head. It is also important to make a sample of knitted fabric with a pattern with which you are going to knit a bandage, to find out how elastic it is. Any knitted accessory will stretch, keep this in mind when determining its length!
- Choose the width of the product at your discretion. A properly tied bandage does not squeeze, but also does not move out of the hair. It covers the ears and frames the forehead beautifully.
A simple headband with knitting needles based on an elastic band
Among the simplest methods to quickly execute a stylish accessory is to create a neat strip of elastic 1x1 or 2x2 elastic (alternating front and back) with two crisscrossing stripes in the middle of the forehead (overlap).
Make the necessary calculations. For an overlap decoration in the center of the forehead, select 10 cm. If the head circumference is, for example, 54 cm, the other two (left and right) parts of the bandage remain 44 cm. Remove 4 cm so that the bandage is not too loose, and in each part 20 cm of canvas will remain.
For a 10 cm wide band, cast on 26-28 stitches (depending on how tight you knit) and sew 20 cm of elastic until the center overlap begins. After that, string half of the loops on an additional knitting needle, and continue to knit the other half with an elastic band.
When the narrow strip reaches a height of 10 cm, return to the deferred thread bows and knit a second similar piece.
Cross the strips so that the thread to work is in the center of the fabric, and knit to the end a row from the additional knitting needle. Close the edge loops that are inside (knit a pair of loops together, like the front one), instead of them add new thread bows from the edges (pull from the lower row).
You just have to knit another 20 cm of fabric and close the last row. The headband with knitting needles is almost ready - you just need to make a neat connecting seam on the wrong side of the accessory with a darning needle and working yarn.
You can also tie a bandage with an overlap on the basis of any simple pattern, for example, "tangle" or garter stitch.
