How to Make a Tapered Crochet Headband
If you can crochet, you don't have to limit yourself to making doilies and bedspreads. Use your skills to hook up some fashionable accessories for you or someone you know. Make a crocheted headband with tapered ends so it will fit more comfortably around your head; add adjustable ties for a custom fit every time. Make one of these headbands in each of your favorite colors so you can wear them any day of the week.
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Things You'll Need
- Measuring tape
- Crochet hook size US H
- Worsted weight yarn
- Scissors
- Embroidery hook
Instructions
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Measure across the top of your head from the top of your left ear, up over your head to the top of your right ear. Call this measurement "A." Measure from just behind the lobe of your ear, under your head to the nape of your neck; call this measurement "B."
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Make four chain stitches using your size US H crochet hook and your worsted weight yarn. Make a single crochet in the second chain from the hook and single crochet in each remaining chain for a total of three single crochet stitches.
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Make one chain and turn your work; single crochet in every single crochet across the row. Repeat this step until your headband matches the height of measurement B.
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Make one chain and turn your work; make two single crochets in every stitch across the row to increase the width of your headband.
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Make one chain and turn your work; make a single crochet in every stitch across the row. Repeat this step until the wide portion of the headband matches measurement A.
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Make one chain and turn your work. Single crochet two together in every stitch across the row.
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Make one chain and turn your work. Single crochet in every stitch across the row. Repeat this step until the narrow portion of the headband matches the height of measurement B.
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Make one chain and turn your work. Slip stitch in the first and second stitches of this row. Make 30 chain stitches and fasten off your work with a slip stitch, then cut the working yarn.
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Attach your yarn with a slip stitch to the center stitch of your starting row. Make 30 chain stitches, then fasten off your work with a slip stitch and cut the working yarn.
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Thread the hanging tails of yarn one at a time onto an embroidery needle and weave them in and out of your crochet stitches to hide them. Tie the headband on with pride.
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Tips & Warnings
To make a chain stitch, bring the yarn up and over the hook from back to front (yarn over); pull the yarn through the loop on your hook. To make a single crochet stitch, insert your hook into the stitch indicated. Yarn over and draw up a loop; yarn over and draw through two loops on the hook. To single crochet two together, insert the hook into the first stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop. Insert your hook into the next stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop. Yarn over and draw through all of the loops on your hook. To make a slip stitch, insert your hook into the stitch indicated. Yarn over and draw through the stitch and the loop on your hook simultaneously.
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