Shifted Buffalo Headbands

Reasons to knit the Shifted Buffalo Headbands:

- protect your ears with squishy cables

- the built-in elastic ensures a good fit (perfect for gifting)

- compact sizes tucks easily into a coat pocket (much smaller than a hat)

- made from scrap quantities of fingering weight yarn

- memorizable 8 row/ 6 stitch repeat

- learn Woven Knitting with this small project

- videos tutorials for every step 

Your pattern download includes separate pdfs for Shifted Buffalo Headbands A &B.  

The Shifted Buffalo Headbands are a great introduction to Woven Knitting. If you are new to both Fission Knitting and Woven Knitting, this pattern is recommended before knitting the reversible Ten Squared Headband.

Yarn: 2 colours of fingering weight yarn

Yarn Usage: 100 yd/ 90 m of each colour

Needles: 4.5mm/ US#7 circular or dpn

Finished Size: 3.5-4 in/ 9-10 cm in width; adjustable length

Other: hair elastic

Skills required: Comfortable with cables

Resources: Shifted Buffalo Headband Tutorials

Recommended Yarn shown in Samples

Headband A: Sweet Georgia Cashluxe Fine

Headband B: Marianated Yarns Scrumptious HT; Amethyst & Morning Mist

Photography: Julie Crawford

Tech editor: Kate Atherley

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