The Soñadora Hair Tie
An beginner-friendly knitted hair tie– my Soñadora Hair Tie – is a free pattern here on the blog! Read through my inspiration, materials and stitch patterns used. Or scroll on down for the free pattern.
Introduction + Design
The Soñadora Hair Tie is a very easy hair tie with minimal shaping, ideal to practice the knit stitch a basic increases and decreases, and to finally use those yarn scraps that you’ll likely have lying around.
It’s worked flat in Garter st from end to end.
Don’t miss the chance to win some yarn!
As part of the launch week of this and the Soñadora Dress knitting patterns, Purrl Kitten and I teamed up to have a Giveaway! You can win the PDF pattern (ad-free and large print) and 2 skeins of Purrl Kitten’s Toe Bean Sock in the Eat Me colorway! How to participate? Just follow both me (@kate.barrios.designs) and Purrl Kitten (@purrlkitten) on Instagram, like this post, and comment it by tagging a friend, and you’ll automatically enter. You can enter the Giveaway until Monday February the 15th/2021, and we’ll anounce the winner on the 17th. The Giveaway is open worldwide, so be sure to enter and share it with all your friends!
This is the perfect project if you’re just learning how to knit!
The Hair Tie only requires you to know how to cast on, make the knit stitch and bind off stitches. It also requires the m1R increase and the ssk decrease, but I’ll teach you how to make those below.
Yarn leftovers, here we come.
This pattern only requires about 15 gr/0.5 oz; 76 yd/63 m of Fingering Weight yarn (really, any weight of yarn will do, but the yardage will vary), so you’ll be using all of your yarn leftovers to make this hair tie, and giving it as gifts for all your friends!
The quickest knit ever
For real. It will take you from 3 to 4 hours to complete this project from beginning to end. Pinky promise.
Pattern
Get the ad-free, large print, printable PDF pattern HERE (or buy the Soñadora Dress Pattern, and recieve this one at no extra cost, only valid on Ravelry) and on Etsy HERE.
PIN this pattern to your Pinterest boards for later HERE.
Techniques Required
● Knit stitch
● Decrease
● Increase
Yarn
Recommended Yarn
Or
Approximately 15 gr/0.5 oz; 76 yd/63 m of Fingering Weight yarn; 75% superwash merino wool, 25% nylon.
Materials
Needles
US 2.5 [3 mm] needles.
Note: Adjust needle sizes to obtain gauge.
Notions
● Tapestry needle.
Gauge
32 sts and 56 rows = a square 4 in/10 cm wide and 4 in/10 cm long, in Garter stitch.
Gauge is not particularly important for this pattern, as long as you like the density of your fabric.
Finished Measurements
Finished Length: 26”/66 cm.
Notes
I am a loose knitter. If you are a tight knitter, I advise you to try knitting a gauge swatch with one needle size bigger than stated in pattern.
For best results, read the entire pattern before you start to knit. Send your questions /comments to [email protected]
Abbreviations
cm: centimeter
k: knit
m1R: make 1 right
RS: Right Side
st(s): stitch(es)
ssk: slip, slip, knit
WS: Wrong Side
Techniques
Make 1 Right: increase method that creates a new stitch from the strand between 2 existing stitches, which leans towards the right. To do it, insert the left-hand needle from back to front under the strand between the left-hand needle and the right-hand neddle, lifting the strand onto the needle. With the yarn in back, insert the right-hand needle from front to back into the front loop of the stitch. Knit it.
Slip, slip, knit: sl next 2 sts to the right-hand needle, one by one, kwise. Slide the left-hand needle into the front loops of the slipped sts and knit them together.
Stitch Patterns
Garter st.
Knit all stitches in all rows.
Schematics
Let’s knit!
Begin Hair Tie
Cast on 4 sts.
Row 1 (RS row): k all sts.
Row 2 and all WS rows: k all sts.
Begin Shaping
Row 3 (Increase Row): k1, m1R, k to end. 1 st increased. — 5 sts.
Continue working in Garter st, and repeating the Increase Row (row 3) every 6th row eleven times more, ending with a WS row (row 70). — 16 sts.
Row 71 (Decrease Row): k1, ssk, k to end. 1 st decreased. — 15 sts.
Continue working in Garter st, and repeating the Decrease Row (row 71) every 12th row eight times more, ending with a WS row (row 168). — 7 sts.
Work even in Garter st for other 32 rows (row 200).
Row 201 (Increase Row): k1, m1R, k to end. 1 st increased. — 8 sts.
Continue working in Garter st, and repeating the Increase Row (row 201) every 12th row eight times more, ending with a WS row (row 298). — 16 sts.
Row 299 (Decrease Row): k1, ssk, k to end. 1 st decreased. — 15 sts.
Continue working in Garter st, and repeating the Decrease Row (row 299) every 6th row eleven times more, ending with a WS row (row 366). — 4 sts.
Bind off all stitches.
Finishing
Weave in ends. You can block the hair tie of you want, but it’s not necessary. Now your hair tie is ready for you to rock it!
You can share your handknits with the KBD community tagging me and using the hashtags #SonadoraHairTie and #katebarriosdesigns
Copyrights
Copyright Kate Barrios Designs, 2021. You are welcome to sell finished items of this pattern, but please give credit to my design linking my website and social media.
You are not allowed to alter this pattern and sell a similar one.
Version 1, February 2021.
