Instructions for a Crocheted Hair Net
You may be a crocheting fanatic looking for a new project, or simply interested in making your own hair net for holding your hair in place, as a fashion statement, or to meet your religious requirements. Crocheting your own hair net allows you to customize it to suit your head size, amount of hair you have, and your personal fashion taste. All the materials you'll need you can find at your local hobby store.
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Things You'll Need
- Size C2 crochet hook
- Baby weight or fingering yarn, color of your choice
- Stitch marker
- Tapestry needle
- Narrow hair band or a 20-in narrow elastic strand
- Scissors
- Needle
- Thread
Instructions
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Take your yarn pull out and locate the string's end. To form a slipknot, make a small circle at the very end of your string and pull its tail through that circle. Allow about 6 inches to hang out at the end of your yarn after the slipknot. Place your crochet hook through that loop.
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Crochet five chain stitches. Join them to make a circle using a slip stitch. On your last stitch, slide your crochet hook through the stitch, catch your yarn, and thread it through the loops of both the stitches on your hook. Put your stitch marker in this stitch. This marker will be used to indicate the start of every new round.
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Crochet four chains. This will be your first of several double-crochet stitches. In the same place as the slip stitch you made in the first round, stitch a double crochet. Chain one, then stitch two double crochet stitches inside your next stitch, which is the midpoint of your circle. Chain another one, and continue this two double crochets pattern, one chain until your round is finished. Use a slip stitch to join it into a circle. You end up with fifteen double-crochet stitches in that round.
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Stitch four chain stitches, and then double crochet at the same exact place as the slip stitch and chain one. In each following two stitches, crochet a double crochet plus one chain stitch. In the next stitch, double-crochet and chain one. Double-crochet stitch in the following two stitches. Continue that pattern until you finish the third round. Use a slip stitch to join. By now you want to have twenty double-crochet stitches.
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Start off your fourth round the same way. Crochet a double crochet plus a chain stitch in each one of the three stitches that follow. Crochet two double crochets, chain one in the following stitch, and then chain one, crochet one double crochet, and finally chain one in each of the succeeding three stitches. Continue crocheting in that pattern until you finish your fourth round four. Join the round using another slip stitch. Now you should be up to twenty-five double-crochet stitches.
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Continue to add to the size of every succeeding round, up until the hair net reaches the diameter you want for it to fit right on your head. For the final round, crochet one double-crochet inside each of the stitches.
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Start decreasing the quantity of stitches within each round once you've reached the diameter of your head. "Decreasing" means joining at least two stitches together. In order to join two double-crochet stitches, start a double-crochet and pull your crochet hook through the loops of your following stitch. Rather than completing this stitch, you want to yarn over and place your hook right through the succeeding stitch, finish off your double crochet, and allow just one loop to remain on your hook.
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Start your round by stitching eight double-crochet stitches, and then join two double-crochets together. Continue that pattern until that round is finished. Use a slip stitch to join the round. For your next round, you want to decrease every four, five, six, or seven stitches. Don't make another round once you see that the hair net's mouth has reached the size of your. At last, you can join your final round using a final slip stitch.
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Use a double-crochet in each of your stitches around to crochet a hair band for your hair net. Cut your yarn and fasten it. Entwine the tail into the hair net. If using an elastic band, weave the band in and out of your stitches, and sew its ends together with a hand-stitch using a needle with thread.
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References
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