knitty.com: headband
Posted January 20th, 2007 by
kath_red
I am seeing this wonderful designed knitted headband almost everywhere – its called caloremetry – I just had to mention it here, as it looks so very comfortable and stylish. (Lizzy knits has a beautiful rainbow one (see image). However there is some criticism of the pattern and design – such as it knits up too big – what do you think? Low country made one that had this problem – but I actually think looks fantastic.
What a great idea for the cover your head knit-along.
check out the crafter thread on the calorimetry and flickr has a few finished projects up too.
Kittycafe made a gorgeous blue version, and has excellent photos showing how it works.
January 20th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I knitted one according to pattern and it came out HUGE, but I still wear it anyway. I think it should be used more as a guideline, ya know, just using the technique and tweaking the numbers so that it works with your yarn and head-size.
January 20th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
My best friend just made a few of these- the sugar and cream cotton yarn seemed to work best for her. She said anything else was too bulky for her.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I knit it once as the pattern said, and found it too big. I have since made three more, casting on only 112 stitches and then doing row 5 thirteen times (instead of 15) and row 7 fifteen times. At least I *think* that’s what I did. It fits great that way, but could probably even be reduced more because the ribbing stretches so much. But all in all it’s sooo easy and quick and cute!
January 21st, 2007 at 3:13 am
I knitted this a few weeks ago and it is a little big, so thank you for these links as next time I’ll cast on less stitches. You can also fold it in half, as I’ve modelled here: http://chatiryworld.typepad.com/chatiryworld/2007/01/a_knitted_start.html
I love it, I can wear a ponytail and keep my ears warm!
January 21st, 2007 at 4:49 am
I whipped one up for a Christmas present at the end of December, although I didn’t get a picture of it. It turned out very cute and not too big at all, and looked absolutely smashing on the person I gave it too.
This pattern gets two big thumbs up from me – I will make one for myself soon.
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:18 am
After reading this post and visiting all of the other versions, I couldn’t resist making one for myself. The first version had only 80 stitches, but ended up too small to fit around my head; the second version is perfect with 110 stitches, and only five repeats of the middle rows. Perfect. What a great way to keep my unruly pouf in check. Thanks for the inspiration!
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 am
I made one in last week and have been wearing it everyday since. I followed the instructions and it looks exactly like the picture — which never happens to me. I think it’s great!