Knit a Headband Inlaid with Diamonds

Little projects like headbands are the perfect way to learn new knitting techniques or refresh your memory if it’s been a while sine you’ve worked with a particular knitting technique. If you’re new to stranded knitting, or you just want to play with colorwork on a little project, check out the Inlaid Diamonds Headband by Trissa Weidenaar.

This little headband has ribbing on the ends in each of the main colors, and then uses one color as the background with cascading rounds of diamonds. The design and its name are inspired by a jewelry used to set stones into silver jewelry.

The pattern comes in a single size that can fit a large child/teen to average adult, fitting a little more snuggly on the grownup. It calls for sport weight yarn in two contrasting colors to make the diamonds pop. You could try knitting it with a larger needle to make it a little bigger if you have a larger head or just don’t want it to be too tight when you wear it.

You can grab the pattern from Ravelry.

Looking for more cute headband patterns for learning new skills or just to knit for fun? Reminder that knit headbands are a great easy and relatively quick gift idea if you want to get a jump on your holiday knitting!

Easy headband knitting patterns is a good roundup of beginner level or otherwise quick knitting projects
Heartbreaker earwarmer uses super bulky yarn and slipped stitches that look like hearts
Sunny headband is an easy first cable knitting pattern
Northwind is a great one if you want to try out brioche knitting
You can also find a bunch of great knitting patterns for headbands and ear warmers on Etsy

If you have a favorite headband knitting pattern I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Daniel DeVries for Taproot Magazine]

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I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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