After all of the shawl knitting I have been doing recently I’ve been taking a bit of a break in order to knit some headgear. I’ve got some hats in the works but because my daughters are required to wear their hair up for school I’ve found that hats are not always that practical for them. After one particular day when Cassie insisted on jamming her Foxy Hat on her head over a high ponytail and wondered why her ears weren’t covered I figured I should probably knit her a headband instead. Oh and one for Felicity too. Incidentally this is Cassie when I knitted her Foxy hat:
The hat is 5 years old and miraculously at nearly 7 it does actually still fit her when her hair is down. Seeing as she still loves and wants to wear this hat I was excited to find a pattern for a fox headband and cowl set. I don’t really see myself knitting the cowl element although it is pretty flipping cute. The headband though is exactly what I was after.
These were really quick to knit with a simple seed stitch strip, knit flat and joined and the ears and bow made separately and sewn on. I actually knit the girls headbands last year, simple navy ones to match their school uniform. They were also seed stitch but knit in the round and they hardly ever wear them because they are a little large and don’t stay on well. I much preferred that these were knit flat as I could keep trying them around the kids heads so that they fit perfectly. I used a provisional cast on and joined the ends with a 3 needle bind off rather than seeming because personal preference and then sewed the ears on where I thought they should go rather than following the directions because my bands were a little shorter than the measurements given in the pattern (tiny heads run in the family!). I used DROPS Lima and some scraps of white something or other from the stash for the inside ear bits. Apparently the yarn is a little itchy on their ears but they have been wearing them without complaining so it can’t be that bad!
Both girls are really pleased with these, they love wearing them to school and I love that their hair isn’t all messed up when they get there in the morning. I will be making them a hat each soon too because some days it is so cold that a hat is definitely needed but for the rest of the time these headbands are just the ticket.
Oh and don't mind Cassie's face in this picture, she was determined to get her crazy teeth in every photo I took! At this point those top front ones were so wobbly that you could see them flopping about when she was talking, so grim. Currently she looks like this:
So now we are just waiting for the other one to drop out, at the moment it's sort of hanging to one side so it looks like she has one central tooth poking out between her lips. She is putting absolutely no effort into getting it out so I'm guessing it's just going to hang there for at least another week. Join me next time for another episode of tooth watch!
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