How to Make a Hair Snood
I saw this title on one of my Yahoo boards and did a little internet hunting. I have long toyed with the idea of making a lacey-looking netty something to put my hair in. I thought the name was singularly amusing since my only previous experience with Snood is the video/computer game. Really nothing like each other at all!! LOL!!
In my search, some snoods I saw were simply tied/knotted, like fishing net, not knit or crocheted at all. Certainly the least feminine-looking! I ended up printing off a 50's era pattern and used it as the basis for mine.
Basically it's a circle that you stop increasing so it becomes a tube. Here's my instructions:
How to Make a Hair Snood
I used one ball of Lily Chin Harlem in no apparent color. It's actually a flat knitted tube yarn, 52% Cotton, 48% acrylic. My logic? If it's going next to hair, wool or silk makes static electricity! The yarn calls for 5.5mm needles. I started with 6mm bamboo DPNs then switched to 9mm.
Cast on using 2 dpns and the long tail method. Be sure to have an excessively long tail - we'll use it to increase, OK? Holding the 2 needles together, cast the first stitch on the first needle, the second stitch on the second needle, the 3rd stitch on the first needle etc. alternating back and forth between the two. This makes a seamless beginning. Cast on a total of 4 stitches per needle. I make my cast on fairly tight, I don't want any gaps between the 2 DPNs. This makes a firm knit-fabric start without loose floppy stitches as those would make holes in your beginning.
Round 1 Holding both strands together (main yarn and cast-on tail) use a 3rd DPN and knit 2 stitches. Get a 4th DPN and knit the last 2 stitches from the first needle. (You now have 3 DPNS with stitches). Use the loose DPN and knit the 4 stitches on the last needle. Stitch count 2 - 2 - 4
Round 2 Using just your main yarn strand, knit every strand on the needles. This will double your stitch count to 4 - 4 - 8 *** (This is how I start my toe-up socks too!)
Round 3 Knit 1, YO all the way around. Stitch count 8 - 8 - 16
Round 4 Knit all
Round 5 Knit 1, YO all the way around. Stitch count 16 - 16 - 32
Round 6 Switch to 9mm 16" circular or 9mm DPNs as you Knit all stitches
Round 7 Knit all
Round 8 Knit 2 together, YO - all the way around
Repeat Rounds 7 & 8 until the snood is the length you want. Keep in mind that it will stretch quite a bit so "smaller than you think" is better than "a bit too large".
Knit all stitches for the last 4 rounds. Switch back to 6mm DPNs to cast off (using a normal cast off - you want tight not stretchy!).
This brings in the top of the snood quite nicely.
Finishing can take several roads. I took three 24" strands of the Lily Chin and braided it. Then I wove it over and under alternating stitches in the 3rd to last "all Knit" round. You could also use satin ribbon - or - hair-friendly elastic. If you go with elastic you may want to hand-stitch a small hair comb to the inside edge - it will help hold it in place.
Just a note - Round 7 & 8 can actually be any non-increasing lace stitch you like. Because this was my first snood I used something really simple. Any yarn will work but you must remember that finer yarn means a smaller gauge so you may need to increase your stitch count to get the diameter you want. Don't be shy to take out a tape measure!! I'm planning to make my next snood out of ladder yarn. I fully expect it to be a PIA to knit but I'm hoping the end result will be spectacular enough to make it worth the nuisance! LOL!! The important thing is that this is a fast and easy project - almost impossible to mess up - really!!
Here's my snood on DD#2, tied around a high pony tail;
In my search, some snoods I saw were simply tied/knotted, like fishing net, not knit or crocheted at all. Certainly the least feminine-looking! I ended up printing off a 50's era pattern and used it as the basis for mine.
Basically it's a circle that you stop increasing so it becomes a tube. Here's my instructions:
How to Make a Hair Snood
I used one ball of Lily Chin Harlem in no apparent color. It's actually a flat knitted tube yarn, 52% Cotton, 48% acrylic. My logic? If it's going next to hair, wool or silk makes static electricity! The yarn calls for 5.5mm needles. I started with 6mm bamboo DPNs then switched to 9mm.
Cast on using 2 dpns and the long tail method. Be sure to have an excessively long tail - we'll use it to increase, OK? Holding the 2 needles together, cast the first stitch on the first needle, the second stitch on the second needle, the 3rd stitch on the first needle etc. alternating back and forth between the two. This makes a seamless beginning. Cast on a total of 4 stitches per needle. I make my cast on fairly tight, I don't want any gaps between the 2 DPNs. This makes a firm knit-fabric start without loose floppy stitches as those would make holes in your beginning.
Round 1 Holding both strands together (main yarn and cast-on tail) use a 3rd DPN and knit 2 stitches. Get a 4th DPN and knit the last 2 stitches from the first needle. (You now have 3 DPNS with stitches). Use the loose DPN and knit the 4 stitches on the last needle. Stitch count 2 - 2 - 4
Round 2 Using just your main yarn strand, knit every strand on the needles. This will double your stitch count to 4 - 4 - 8 *** (This is how I start my toe-up socks too!)
Round 3 Knit 1, YO all the way around. Stitch count 8 - 8 - 16
Round 4 Knit all
Round 5 Knit 1, YO all the way around. Stitch count 16 - 16 - 32
Round 6 Switch to 9mm 16" circular or 9mm DPNs as you Knit all stitches
Round 7 Knit all
Round 8 Knit 2 together, YO - all the way around
Repeat Rounds 7 & 8 until the snood is the length you want. Keep in mind that it will stretch quite a bit so "smaller than you think" is better than "a bit too large".
Knit all stitches for the last 4 rounds. Switch back to 6mm DPNs to cast off (using a normal cast off - you want tight not stretchy!).
This brings in the top of the snood quite nicely.
Finishing can take several roads. I took three 24" strands of the Lily Chin and braided it. Then I wove it over and under alternating stitches in the 3rd to last "all Knit" round. You could also use satin ribbon - or - hair-friendly elastic. If you go with elastic you may want to hand-stitch a small hair comb to the inside edge - it will help hold it in place.
Just a note - Round 7 & 8 can actually be any non-increasing lace stitch you like. Because this was my first snood I used something really simple. Any yarn will work but you must remember that finer yarn means a smaller gauge so you may need to increase your stitch count to get the diameter you want. Don't be shy to take out a tape measure!! I'm planning to make my next snood out of ladder yarn. I fully expect it to be a PIA to knit but I'm hoping the end result will be spectacular enough to make it worth the nuisance! LOL!! The important thing is that this is a fast and easy project - almost impossible to mess up - really!!
Here's my snood on DD#2, tied around a high pony tail;
LOVE this, thanks for sharing!!! You're linked, shared on FB, and would love to see this added to Ravelry!!
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Gee thanks! (blush! blush!) I'm afraid I just don't have time for Ravelry, although I think it's great!
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That' looks lovely. Have never heard "hair snood" before. :o)
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See now, Mom called that a snood. When I was about 8 yrs old, there was a tube thingy kind of like a wimple that got called a snood. My 8 yr old heart yearned for one, and Mom knit me one in blue. Then she made me a snood a lot like yours in blue to match. Good memories!
By the by, I love your cast on. And your pictures of it. Clearest I've ever seen.
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Thanks for the update. I still think it's a strange name! That cast on is the #1 reason I knit toe-up. It is absolutely the smoothest toe you'll ever knit!
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Oh this is cool. Thanks for sharing the pattern.
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My pleasure! Thanks for stopping by!
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