Rose Quartz Yarn Headband Tutorial

Written by Kate Curry

Is it too hot to show off your favorite yarn? With temperatures hitting the 90s here in NY, it is impossible to wear my favorite beanies, scarves, or shawls. But there’s so much pretty yarn I want to wear!

If you’ve been eyeing some yarn and are at a loss of what to make, I have just the project for you!

Materials

A cake of rose quarts sparkle worsted weight silk yarn in different shades of pinks is resting in the sun on a wooden table. There's a red metal crochet hook stuck into the cake and a purple yarn tag is posed in front of the cake.

Yarn! I will go over how to use lace weight, sparkle worsted weight, hemp yarn, AND sport weight twist yarn for this project.
Necessary crochet hooks, matching the weight of yarn that you’re using
Small, sturdy hair ties.
Scissors
Tape measurer

Before We Get Started

Measure your head! You’ll need to know the measurements of your head to know how long your chains will have to be!

These headbands are a mix of different styles of chains and simple crochets. With one skein/cake of yarn, you will be able to do as many chains in your headband as you’d like!

Techniques You’ll Need To Know

Chaining

Single Crochet

Double Crochet

‘Chonking’ or thickening up yarn

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Hey everybody, Kate from Darn Good Yarn here. So I'm going to show you a really cool technique to thicken up, or, as I call it, chunk up some yarn. So I have some of our worsted weight yarn. And before I show you my trick, I just kind of want to show you what a regular, like, simple chain of this looks like so that when I show you the chunky version, you can actually see the difference. All right, so just one chain of our worsted weight yarn looks pretty much like this.

All right, so the first thing you have to do is you have to make an S. I always like to put my ball of yarn to my right. And then I will make a little S with my yarn. You bunch it together. And you make your knot with the working strand of yarn on your right side. And then you're going to make this, like, knot or any kind of knot really. You know, I'm not a big fan of slip knots. All right. Perfect. So you can see now we're going to have three strands of yarn. There's going to be the working strand and there's going to be this, like, little lasso. So I'll show you how it works. So I'm going to make a few quick chains. It's maybe a little tight because this crochet hook is a little too small for this thickness.

It was perfect for the plain worsted weight. But now that we're a little chunky, the first one might be a little tight. There we go. Now she's loosey goosey but as you can see, the chain is definitely chunkier. Look at that bad boy. Now, these three distinct strands, there's one working strand to catch the ball of yarn, and there's one like little lasso. So once you've gotten to the end of this, three strands to make more, you take your lasso, you're going to take a working yarn, and you're going to pull it through this pull it right through that little lasso Now, what you do is you're going to grab the lasso and kind of pull the yarn together. So you're making three strands of yarn again.

So essentially, while you are building up your project, you also have to stop every so often to put your yarn through that lasso to make more three stranded yarn or chunky art, as I like to call it. Here's a better view of the lasso. So you'll see one working strand attached to the ball of yarn or cake, whatever. And then you have the lasso. So to make more fingers through the lasso, pull the yarn on through and then squish it down here where you've ended the last lasso, you'll see like a little attachment. It does not affect the yarn at all. So remember those few stitches I showed you at the beginning, this is the same yarn.

But now this is with the thickening technique. So it's nice and thick and chunky. And again, once you get to like the end of your lasso, you can just push the yarn through Come on, buddy. Push the yarn through and tug. This would work better if I had a beautiful yarn bowl. Thankfully, I work at a place that makes yarn bowls and then you pull it down and then you have your three strands. I think it shows off the colors a lot better. Also, it shows off the sparkle a lot better. And that is pretty much it for my chunky yarn trick.

Let’s Get Started!

Sparkle Worsted Weight

Single Crochet Chain

Step 1: Using a slip knot, attach the yarn to the hook while the hair tie is around the hook. This will anchor the yarn into the hook.

A red metal crochet hook with a navy blue hair tie has the pink sparkly yarn attached to the hook.

Step 2: Using 5.50 mm hook, CH 73 (or however many chains you will need to fit comfortably around your head.

Step 3: SLST and YO. Knot and leave a long tail to attach to the hair tie.

Step 4: Attach the tail end of the chain to your hair tie with a tight knot. Snip off any excess strings

A pale hand is holding a chain of stitched rose quartz pink yarn. To the upper left of the hand is the full cake of the same pink sparkly yarm.

Chonky Chain

Step 1: Chonk up the yarn using the above tutorial. Using a slip knot, attach the yarn to the hook while the hair tie is around the hook. This will anchor the yarn into the hook.

Step 2: With a 6.50 mm crochet hook, CH 55.

Step 3: Slip stitch and YO. Knot and leave a long tail to attach to the hair tie.

Step 4: Attach the tail end of the chain to your hair tie with a tight knot. Snip off any excess strings

On a wooden table, a blue and a gold metal crochet hook rests on the table. In a pale hand is a chunky crochet chain of pink and orange ombre sparkle yarn.

Double Crochet Chain

Step 1: Using a slip knot, attach the yarn to the hook while the hair tie is around the hook. This will anchor the yarn into the hook.

Step 2: Using 5.50 mm hook, CH 73,

Step 3: Place 1st DC into the 4th sts and DC the whole row.

Step 4: Weave in the ends and anchor the strand to the hair tie.

On a wooden table, a pale hand holds a strand of double crochet pink ombre sparkle worsted weight yarn.