So, we have already established that I like to crochet. And, I think briefly we touched on my strange and twisted love of history. And hence another fusion of passions: snoods.I am a practical kind of lady, and tend to look to the past for what other practical ladies did. Snoods fit the bill for me and my hip length hair.
These two snoods are both my own inventions for the patten. Modeled by looks on some I found from the Civil War era. I did try to find and then follow some patterns, but they always came out way too small. I have A LOT of hair, and I finally gave up and just kept trying it on as I went.
The tan colored one is actually some sort of chenille yarn from an exchange long ago. It turned out to be fairly stretchy after it was all crocheted up. But oh my! It was such a pain to frog it! In fact after trying to frog it twice, I gave up and just cut the yarn and started again.The brighter yellow in the edge is a grosgrain ribbon that has a piece of elastic about an inch long holding the ends together. The elastic stays enclosed in the ribbon the whole time to allow it to slide inside the yarn. I wore it without the elastic for about a year, but by then it had stretched out a little too big, and it wasn't staying on my head even with the hair pins.
The pattern is made of chains and treble crochets. I increased the number of chains between the tr on each round, joining the rounds. I then switched to a triangle pattern for the band done with double crochets.
The purple one is made from some gorgeous silk yarn that was a Yule present from a crocheting friend of mine. There is a piece of round elastic concealed in the last row of single crochets on the outside edge.I like the way it turned into a sort of web pattern. And even though the holes get to be rather large before I gathered it back in for the edging band, it still holds my hair very well. The pattern is simply chains with single crochet attachments, worked in a spiral. I then switched to some sort of hexagonal/square pattern for the band, not really sure what it is, but it ended up looking nice!
Some snood trivia: Did you know snoods are more like hair nets than hair bags? You are meant to style your hair neatly and securely, then place the snood over the top to hold the style down during activity and wind. There are also two types of snoods, full head snoods, and low snoods, that hold the hair in a hanging bun at the nape of the neck. The low snoods are often connected to either a headband or a large barrette. Snoods are also usually made of yarns/threads with a lot of grip, so they hang on to the hair.
3 comments:
I really love your snoods! I do have a question though....
do you have a written out pattern of them?
I've been wanting to make one for myself but I can't find one that's my style. But your snoods fit the bill.
Can you help me out?
Hi needelding. I hope this reaches you, because I am not sure how else to contact you. The, albeit rather rough, patterns for each one are above in the text. The tan one is simply done with treble crochets (US terminology, two YOs before inserting hook) with an increasing number of chains between them on each round.
The purple one is a fishnet pattern. The first round is three ch with a sc to attach to the center magic ring, the next round is 4 ch, the next 5 and so on. When it was big enough to fit my head I just worked some sort of pattern that didn't increase anymore for the band. I did that in a spiral also until it was deep enough to hold my hair.
That's it. Pick a yarn and a hook to go with it and just start working in rounds.
These are great and just the thing I was looking for. My hair is almost hip length and I'm always looking for new ideas on how to wear it.
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