The Land Girl Hairband

Frankie and Slightly Reluctant Cat

In town last week, Little One suddenly suggested she would like a haircut. Her long hair was annoying her in the heat, so before she could change her mind I whisked her into a hairdressers. They gave her a great bob, my favourite style. But now her hair is a bit short to tie back in a pony tail, so we had to come up with some new styles.

So here are the new hairbands. She said she wanted it slightly in the style of a "land girl". Did anyone else really enjoy Land Girls on the TV? (Not the film, which is also good, but there was a Bristish television series on a few years ago. Actually I think it ran for several series.) 

The hairband is fairly simple to make. I have put the pattern instructions so they are downloadable in a single document and it is available in my Etsy Shop. Sewing patterns are a bit of a new thing for me. (I did do a smocked hairband, in a failed attempt to repopularise the craft of smocking.) I expect there are pattern drawing software programmes but I have done this with the old sketchpad and scanner. 

I guess you could wear the band with the bow on the side or back. This one was made from an old school dress, to co-ordinate with her school uniform.

Here are a few more. There are three different styles of ties in the pattern to give a bit of choice: curved, single-point and double-point. What you can't really tell from the photos is the band is made in three sections, with elastic under the ties. This makes it more comfortable to wear, and means you can make slight adjustments in size.  The bow is purely decorative. It also means you don't need a really long bit of fabric to make the band, and as you can see I am using up all sorts of oddments to make Frankie a selection of bands.