Crown your festive style with a knitted flower headband! Check out our pattern for sweet everlasting flowers
Put on this flower headband, and you’ll instantly feel festive. This showstopper for any party sports daisies and roses. Assemble your own bouquet in the spirit of Frida Kahlo.
Frida flower headband: materials
- sport weight yarn. The sample flowers weigh 2–7 g each. The sample headband uses Markus Company 6-ply yarn (50 g = 125 m) in these shades: 4001 Brilliant White, 0760 Cyber Yellow, 1263 Autumn Glory, 1763 High Risk Red, 1656 Rio Red, and 6153 Fern Green, as well as Gepard Kid Seta (25 g = 210 m) in shade 488.
- 2.5 mm (US1.5) double-pointed needles or according to your gauge
- a wide headband
- sewing thread, needles, and pins
Knitted flower headband: instructions
Large and small rose
Cast on 10 sts for the small rose and knit 10 cm in garter stitch [in Finnish]. For the large rose, cast on 15 sts and knit 15 cm in garter stitch. Bind off and roll the rose loosely from one end, cinching it with either the cast-on or bind-off tail using a running stitch. Weave in the ends. If you like, shape the rose by turning the petals outward or by attaching the free edge of the piece to the rose. You can knit the mohair rose with the same pattern as the larger rose.
Daisy or gerbera
- Cast on 10 sts with white yarn and knit 6 rows in garter stitch. On the 7th row, bind off the first 7 sts, knit the remaining 3, turn work, knit 3, and cast on 7 sts by knitting them on.
- Knit the next petal the same way, and continue until you have six petals in total. Bind off all 10 sts.
- For the daisy, knit another identical six-petal piece. Join the pieces into rings with a needle, and sew them lightly together at the edges of the center part so the lower petals peek out between the upper ones.
- Cast on 3 sts with yellow yarn and knit them. On the next row (in garter stitch), increase 2 sts by knitting the edge sts through both the front and back loops. Knit the next row, then on the following row, increase 2 more sts at the edges of the center. Knit 2 rows in garter stitch. Finally, on every other row, decrease 1 st at each edge by knitting 2 sts together until you have 3 sts left. Knit those 3 sts and bind off.
- Attach the center to the middle of the daisy, folding the edge inward so it smooths out and is slightly lifted from the flower. Weave in all yarn ends gently.
- Work the gerbera in the same way, but switch yarn colors as you like.
Leaf
- The leaf is worked flat in stockinette stitch, that is, purl on the wrong side and knit on the right side.
- Cast on 3 sts with green yarn and purl them, then turn work. Knit 1, make a right-leaning increase (lift the strand between sts from the back and knit it through the front loop), knit the center st, make a left-leaning increase (lift the strand between sts from the front and knit it through the back loop), knit the last st. Turn and purl 5 sts.
- Repeat the increases on each right-side row on both sides of the center st until you have 11 sts. Work 3 rows in stockinette stitch.
- Begin decreasing: work an skp decrease (= slip 1 knitwise, knit 1 and pass the slipped st over) on the right side of the center st, and knit 2 together on the left side. Work the decreases on the following right-side rows and purl on the wrong side until you have 3 sts left on the needle.
- Break the yarn and draw it through the remaining sts. Weave in the ends.
Finishing and assembling the headband
Lightly steam the pieces and shape them, especially the leaves, daisies, and gerberas. You can let them dry on an ironing board by pinning them in place. Decide where you want the flowers and leaves by carefully pinning them to both the headband and each other before stitching them in place. Voilà—it’s Frida!
