FO: Headband for a lady

(For my non-knitting readers: “FO” is knitter-speak for “finished object.”)

This headband is really a story about how wonderful my friends are. I made it with (beautiful) yarn given to me by a friend’s mom, for Olivia in thanks for bringing me soup when I was sick. Everyone I know who knows Olivia agrees; she’s basically Wendy Darling. One of the most caring and kind people I’ve ever met.

Isn’t this pattern the loveliest? It’s Hera’s Headband from Sock Yarn One-Skein Wonders, designed by Sarah-Hope Parmeter, and I loved knitting every single stitch. It’s a lot of cabling, but they’re all really just 2-stitch twists so you don’t even need a cable needle. I think if I were to knit it again, I’d only change the border to something a little simpler. As it is it’s a slowly winding single-column cable over garter stitch, and I’d prefer either something much bolder or much simpler.

It fastens in the back with a button, and after knitting it I realized I should have made it just an inch or so shorter. My fingers are crossed that Olivia’s head is bigger than mine, but on me it was a little too loose.

 

Coming soon:

• Finally another Pretty Pages!
• Some snuggly toddler cuteness
• Crocheted hats and shawls
• Some summer-nostalgia with a healthy dose of German Shepherd

Wait, what?

I don’t hate this thing I made as much as I thought I would! I made it specifically for some images for the upcoming redesign and new advertising, but might actually wear it, like, in real life. It’s like a headband, but the knitted part doesn’t go all the way around. Because that bugs me. There’s about a 5″ gap at the back, where I strung an elastic through the short edges of the band and then re-tied the elastic. I’m not doing a very good job of describing this, so I guess I’ll add another picture. But I did it that way so I can put my hair over the headband without that weird bulge in the back.

(I promise I’m not naked in these pictures; just wearing (the most comfortable) tube dress.)