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I knit this purple Frida headband using leftover yarn from my Ravine Hat. The Ravine Hat used almost exactly half a skein of DK weight yarn by Annie Paaren. The good thing about headbands is that they use small amounts of yarn. You might not have enough of a beautiful yarn left over to knit a hat, scarf, or sweater. However, headbands just require a few hundred metres of yarn!
This hand-dyed yarn uses 100% bluefaced leicester (BFL) wool. This breed of sheep produces a yarn that is naturally strong and lustrous, in addition to having wool’s natural warmth. Sometimes people think that 100% BFL wool yarn includes silk because of its gorgeous shine! Also, this yarn includes multiple, beautiful tones of purple. That’s the beauty of hand-dyed yarn!
The Frida headband is a double layer of stockinette fabric. The pattern, as written, called for a strand of laceweight mohair and a strand of fingering weight yarn. Together, these yarns act as a DK weight. Since I wanted to use up part skeins that I have kicking around, I used a single strand of DK weight yarn.
Instead of the recommended 4.0 mm needles, I used 3.0 mm ones due to my loose gauge. The pattern instructs the knitter to knit until you reach your desired length. As a result, you can easily make this headband for heads of any size! I’m sure this would look great in a smaller child for children too.
This is the first time that I used the double knitting technique. Thankfully, it’s not hard! I just had to make sure that I slipped the stitches purlwise. The double layer of stockinette makes sure that this headband will be nice and warm. If you want to make the headband wider, you can just cast on an extra even number of stitches. Conversely, you can make it narrower by casting on less.
Once finished, you can choose to wear the twisted part of the headband in the front, or the back. I find having the twisted, cinched part fits nicely under your hair on the back of your head. Your choice!
Get the free pattern for the Frida headband on Ravelry here. The pattern is available in both English and French.
Buy this finished purple Frida Headband from our Etsy shop.
We love knitting headbands! Check out some of the other headbands that we have made:
- Mohair entrelac headband
- Red Queensland Beach headband
- Blue woven cable headband
- Pink entrelac headband
That is such a sweet headband and looks perfect on you! You ladies style your shots so well. ?
I love the colour of your headband. It looks pretty simple to make, as a new knitter I may take a look at the pattern.
Purple is my favourite colour, so I am off to get my needles and purple wool right now #pocolo@_karendennis
Purple is such a great color on you! What a fun headband. Thanks for sharing and linking with me.
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Looks great, and a great colour on you – thanks for sharing with #PoCoLo
That colour really suits you, the twist in the band makes it look so pretty. Thanks for linking with #pocolo
That looks so pretty. Great for winter. Also handy for keeping headphones in!
Love the colour
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