A Rainbow Adjustable Shells Headband

Learn all about the Rainbow Adjustable Shells Headband a friend commissioned from me for her mother, and get tips on how to make your very own amazingly colourful headband too!

Over the last few months, I have been working, on and off, on a brand new headband series for a fully customizable set of designs that can be crocheted to any size/width using any yarn + hook.

Last month, when a friend of mine saw all the ones I had crocheted, she fell in love and commissioned me to make a rainbow version of the Adjustable Shells Headband as a special gift for Mother's Day. Which happens to be December 8th here in Panama.

Her special request was... A thick version with BOLD colours and lots of them!

So, I poked around my stash and found little bits of several fun colours, but before I settled on an exact number, I wanted to see how I could best work the headband WITHOUT having to fasten off at the end of each row...

I determined that I would need an odd number of colours in order to do it the way I wanted it done. 

I already had the lighter blue centerpiece of the headband crocheted from when I was working on the headband video tutorial, so I decided to start the rainbow in that blue - the exact colourway is 2500 by Circulo Clea Yarns.

Then, I followed it with a purple (colourway-6614), pink (6092), orange (4156), yellow (1289), and green (5638).

Now I had the six basic primary and secondary colours. All I needed was one more. 

It took me a few moments to compare the other threads I had on hand with the six I was using so thus far. That's when I decided a navy (2859) would look amazing!

Hurray! Back to crocheting the headband...

For those of you who have been following me for a while, you'll know that I mostly only ever work with cotton thread size 10. It doesn't make a very thick anything. Which is great for all the Barbie projects I do, but not so much when I need something bigger.

Luckily, I recently discovered a clever video tutorial from Briana K that allowed me to turn one skein into a bulky yarn instead. YAY!

Off I went, switching colours at the end of each row, carrying them up the rows, and when I was ready for the same colour again, it was right there waiting for me. :D

I ended up crocheting more shell rows for this one, than I did for the dusty rose variation.

This was partly due to the loss of stretch on the sides of the headband from carrying 3 colours up the rows on each side.

And of course, I wanted to end the the headband on the lighter blue for balanace.

In the end, I ended up with 43 shell rows, which gave me 6 FULL colour repeats around. :D

It fit my head nicely with a good amount of leeway and stretchiness, which was perfect!

Especially considering the recipient's head is larger than mine.

I had it ready for her just in the nick of time too!

The day before Mother's Day, she came to collect it and gave me three hugs.

I just love seeing the happiness that comes from a happy customer!

​Don't you? :D

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This premium crochet pattern is available for free on the blog for December 2016 ONLY, but you can grab the PDF pattern for an amazing deal by purchasing two headband variations and getting the third variation free of charge!

Also, be sure to add your projects to Ravelry, so I can see your creativity too. :D

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Wishing you a most wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year...