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]

I rarely understand why something becomes a trend in crafting. Gnomes and geese are both cute I guess, but I never thought we’d be making them for all seasons. (See, for example, this collection of gnome knitting patterns, or these knit geese.)

Another one I don’t totally understand is sardines or little fish more generally. Sure, they’re cute, and the shape is fun, but I had no idea when I was sharing this pattern for a fish-shaped pouch last year that it would become a hugely popular pattern that people are still searching for on the site. It is pretty cute, though, so if you weren’t around then or don’t remember you should got check it out.

Recently another fishy knitting pattern crossed my monitor: the little knit fish from Classical Songbird Designs.

Just as the name suggests, these fish are little, about 4.5 inches or 11 cm from end to end. They look like little sardines and take about 12 yards of sock yarn to make.

You can even make a two-tone fish and use just 6 yards of each color.

This sounds to me like just about the perfect use for the yarn that’s left over after knitting a pair of socks, or a mini skein or several that have been sitting around unused in your stash.

The fish are knit flat in one piece, which makes it easy to stitch on the eyes with more yarn or embroidery floss before stuffing, and you can stitch up the sides while you stuff (though it’s not a very big piece so you could probably stitch and then stuff, finishing with the end of the tail).

Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one wondering, I measured an Altoids box and as the pattern is written the fish are a little too big to fit in it (the box is about 4 inches/10 cm long). But you could make the fish a little smaller if you want to make a box of them. Or just make a fishy bag to put them in!

You can grab the free pattern for the little knit fish at Classical Songbird Designs.

[Photo: Classical Songbird Designs.]

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