How to Make Crochet Headbands With Flowers for a Baby
Crochet a simple headband with a flower if your favorite baby's best outfit needs accessorizing. A decorative headband completes a young miss' ensemble without driving her to distraction the way a baby hat sometimes does. Crafty aunts, mothers, grandmothers and others will be able to make a headband and flower in an evening. Enclose a loop of narrow elastic with crocheted stitches made of a soft acrylic yarn that won't chafe a baby's tender scalp. Once you've made the first one, stitch several more headbands to coordinate with Miss Baby's entire wardrobe.
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Things You'll Need
- 13 1/2 inches 1/8-inch elastic
- Sewing needle
- Thread
- Few yards soft acrylic worsted weight yarn
- Crochet hook U.S. size F
- Scissors
- Blunt large-eyed needle
Instructions
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Headband
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Overlap the ends of the 1/8-inch elastic. Sew the ends together with the sewing needle and thread to form a ring.
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Work single crochets around the elastic ring using the yarn and the crochet hook. You will make approximately 100 stitches but an exact stitch count is not necessary
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Use a slip stitch to fasten the first and last single crochet stitches together. Chain three stitches.
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Make a single crochet in the first stitch. Work three chain stitches. Repeat these two steps around the headband. Cut the yarn with the scissors and fasten it.
Flower
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Chain four stitches using the yarn and crochet hook. Make a slip stitch into the first chain to form the stitches into a ring. Chain three stitches, then make two double crochets into the ring. Chain two stitches.
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Work three double crochet stitches into the ring and chain two stitches. Do this three times. Connect the last stitch of the round to the first stitch using a slip stitch.
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Chain one stitch to begin the next round. Work a half double crochet, then a double crochet, followed by a treble crochet, another double crochet, a second half double crochet and another slip stitch into the next stitch. You have made the first flower petal.
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Slip stitch into the next two chain stitches from the previous row. Make six more petals like the first one. Use a slip stitch to connect the last stitch of the round with the first one. Cut the yarn with the scissors and fasten it.
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Position the flower at the overlap point of the elastic. Sew the flower to the headband using the blunt needle and a length of yarn.
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References
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