Description

Loving yarn as well as pasta, it wasn’t long before cables started to look like noodles to me. The first was lasagna, and then came the rest. This is what happens when you get hungry when you’re knitting—you knit some noodles! Three different headbands knit three different ways: Fettuccini is worked end-to-end starting as a cord and ending the same way, lasagna is worked end-to-end and seamed, and Rotini is worked in the round.

Finished Measurements

Fettuccini: 18” [45.5 cm] long, 3.5” [9 cm] wide with 10” [25.5 cm] tie at both ends
Lasagna: 18 (20, 22)” [45.5 (51, 56) cm] circumference, 4” [10 cm] wide
Rotini: 16.5 (18, 19.5, 21)” [42 (45.5, 49.5, 53.5) cm] circumference, 3” [7.5 cm] wide

Materials

• Worsted weight yarn, approx 85 yds [77.5 meters] for each headband
• US size 7 [4.5 mm] dpn or size needed to achieve gauge
• US size 7 [4.5 mm] 16” circular needles
• US size 7 [4.5 mm] straight needles (optional)
• Cable needle
• Stitch marker
• Yarn needle

Gauge

28 sts & 25 rows = 4” [10 cm] in Fettucini Cable, after blocking, slightly stretched
24 sts & 28 rows = 4” [10 cm] in Lasagna Cable, after blocking, slightly stretched
21 sts & 29 rows = 4” [10 cm] in Rotini Cable, after blocking, slightly stretched

Skills Used

Cables, knitting in the round, increases, decreases, knitted cord, seaming

Yarn used: Cascade 220, color #8010

Construction

Three different headbands knit three different ways: Fettuccini is worked end-to-end starting as a cord and ending the same way, Lasagna is worked end-to-end and seamed, and Rotini is worked in the round.