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Knit a Headband Inlaid with Diamonds

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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!

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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A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]