This pattern makes a head covering that keeps long hair from whipping into your face on a windy day. The finished item looks like an Easter basket without a bottom. The handle goes around your head (over the crown, behind the ears, and across the back of the neck), like a headband. Your long hair goes into the basket.
50 grams of yarn makes a “basket” that is 4 to 5 inches deep. That’s long enough to keep your hair out of your face.
Materials
1 or 2 50g balls worsted or sport weight cotton
16: size 8 circs
1 stitch marker to mark the beginning of the round
1 elastic headband, 30 inches of ribbon, or two or three 30-inch strands of yarn
Head band
Cast on 90 sts (an inch or so more than you would for a hat) and join to work in the round.
Rnds 1 & 3: K
Rnd 2: P.
If you’re using an elastic headband, run it through the work in Rnd 4.
Rnd 4: * Lay the headband between the needles, yo, k2 tog, k2, lay the head band between the needles, yo, k2 tog, k3 *.
Rnds 5-7: Same as 1-3.
Rnd 8: P15, bo 60 pw (two thirds of the number of stitches cast on), p 15.
“Basket”
Rnd 9: K15, co 30 (one third the number of stitches originally cast on), k15: 60 sts.
Rnd 10: P.
Rnd 11: K.
Work lace or mesh stitch until almost out of yarn. The simplest pattern would be as follows:
Lace rnd 1: * k1, yo, sk2p, yo *.
Lace rnd 2: K.
When the snood is long enough or when you’re almost out of yarn, knit 1 round, purl one round, knit one round, and bind off as if to purl.
