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    Three Vines Headband

    I originally had the idea for this headband over a year ago. But sometimes when you have ideas, that doesn’t mean you know how to turn that idea into something real. While I had thought I knew how to do this, the more I thought about it the more I realized I had no clue! So between this, and not really having time during the school year, it remained a sketch in my notebook. It was only after I had finished my Ripplebutt Shorts that I had an ah-ha moment – I could do the top, most visible, part of this headband with i-cords! I-cords are really not a difficult…

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    Free Pattern: Bitty Knit Headband

    I needed to do something different for the blog, something other than washcloths. I’m not saying I’m done with those, I just needed some variety. The other thing I needed was something to do with the many little balls of yarn I have left over from miscellaneous projects. I think we all have a lot of scrap yarn lying around. So the Bitty Knit Headband needed to be made. Bitty means “made up of or containing bits” (Merriam-Webster) so it seemed a good name for this headband! After finishing my Fairy Dust socks I was still on the fence about lace. There are so many different lace stitches and motifs…