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Effortless Earwarmer Knitting Pattern

March 11, 2022 by Sarah White

I seem to be on a bit of an earwarmer/headband kick lately. The thing is, they’re a great early project for people learning to knit — or learning to knit in the round — and they are faster to knit and usually not as fiddly as hats.

The Effortless Earwarmer from Little Larkspur Designs is perfect for using a little bit of super bulky yarn and you can really knit it in about an hour if you’re not trying any new skills on this project.

Even if you are it will still be pretty fast.

This is a great one to keep on hand for stash busting and gift knitting (you can also combine two worsted weight yarns to get a similar weight if you’re using up yarn on this project).

You can grab the free pattern on Ravlery or on her Instagram profile if you don’t do Ravelry.

[Photo: Little Larkspur Designs.]

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Comments

  1. Penny Brockelsby says

    December 12, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to trying this. I do charity knitting for my local library. They have a warming wall. Anyone that has a need can take a hat or ear warmer!

Have you read?

Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!

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