Cable Knitted Headband

Like I've said a couple of times, I didn't craft much while I was in Mexico. However, about a month before I came back, my family went to visit me and brought me some yarn and knitting needles I had requested. So, I made a few headbands. Not that they were of much use over there since the temperature was never below the 80s. Anyway, I made a few of these and gave them away to friends so they could use them when they went back home. They are really quick to make (took me less than 2 hours each) and don't require much yarn. Plus, they're super cute and I think they'd make great Christmas/ holiday gifts! So time to knit about a million of these!...

Materials used:
- 2 balls of worsted weight yarn (or you can use 1 of chunky yarn)
- size 11 knitting needles
-cable needle

Directions:
I used the Vanessa Headband pattern you can find here.

I made the narrow version, so I only cast on 14 stitches and instead of using chunky yarn, I used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together.

Action shot:

Closeup:

 Just the headband:

Thanks for reading and have a great day! :)

Moss stitch cowl/ circle scarf

I can't believe it's already March, which means spring is almost here!

It's not even remotely cold where I live but I love knitting so I recently made an infinity scarf or cowl, whatever you want to call it. I absolutely love it! The color, the texture, everything! And, since it's super easy to make, I wanted to share it with you guys. So here's the tutorial:

This is a super simple pattern, it only uses the two most basic stitches: knit and purl. All you're going to need is some yarn and size 9 knitting needles. I used one skein of  7oz/198g with 364yds/333m acrylic worsted weight yarn.

Instructions:

-Cast on a multiple of 4 stitches. I cast on 36 stitches because I thought that would be a good width for the cowl.
-Rows 1 & 2: *K2, p2; repeat from * to end
-Rows 3 & 4: *P2, k2; repeat from * to end
-Repeat rows 1-4 until your scarf measures about 70 inches long. Bind off.
-Using a tapestry needle, sew the cast on side to the bind off side to form a hoop.

And you're done!

Thanks for reading and have a great day! :)

<3, Martha

Knitted Headband with Bow and Fingerless Gloves

Hi everyone! This is my first DIY post ever and I’m pretty excited to show you what I made. I actually made these two things in December/ early January for the holidays and I’m posting them because I really liked how they turned out. I realize I should have probably made two separate posts, one for each item, but since they’re kind of related (a. they’re both knitted. b. they both use the same blue sparkly yarn), I decided to post them together.

So the first item is this knitted headband/ ear warmer with a bow. I based my headband off of this tutorial here. The only modifications I made were that I used needles a size smaller (or you could also cast on fewer stitches) because the first one I made stretched out a lot and didn’t like how it ended up. Also, I didn’t like how the bow looked with just yarn wrapped around the big rectangle so I just made a smaller rectangle (casting on 5 stitches) and wrapped it around the bigger one. 

For my headband I used a navy blue acrylic yarn with sparkles from Michael’s. Perfect for the cold weather!

 
My second project was a pair of fingerless gloves. This was my first time knitting fingerless gloves, or any type of gloves for that matter, so I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. The pattern is pretty simple. I got it from the Lion Brand Yarn (LBY) website and you can find it here. To see it you need to be registered on their website which is completely free and totally worth it because they have some great patterns. I used the same navy blue acrylic yarn I used for the headband and some grey acrylic yarn (I think it’s Vanna’s Choice yarn from LBY).

And voila, here are my fingerless gloves. Well, it’s actually only one since I had to take the picture with my other hand, but you get how they look like.

Thanks for reading!