Covering Our Hair
This is a collection of patterns and links to patterns to make headcoverings, and some tips. Some of the patterns that I link to are charity patterns, and they ask that if you use them for personal use, that you make an extra and give it to a charity. I think that's a lovely thought, and encourage everyone to do so.
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| Sewing Patterns | Crocheting Patterns | Knitting Patterns | Hints and Tips | Yarmulkas |
| Shoshana's Snood Pattern This one is on my site, a snood pattern that was generously shared by Shoshana. This is the Jewish style fabric snood, as opposed to the net style ones often worn by historical re-enactors. | Creative Kindness Beret Directions to sew a beret. |
| Chemo Bandana Hats Directions on sewing headscarves. The size used in the example would be a little small for full head coverage, but it should be easy enough to make them bigger. | UnderscarvesSome scarf-like sewing patterns - used by Muslim women under other headscarves, apparently. |
| Creative Kindness Headband A headband to cover the hairline. | Doo Rag Pattern For the more adventurous. |
| Easy Beret Project Another sewn beret | Reversible Chemo Hat A three page Adobe Acrobat pdf file |
| Creative Kindness Easy Hat a pdf file | How to Make a Renaissance Hat Directions to make a "flat cap" |
| Dawn's Costume Guide - Hair Snood Directions to sew a lined mesh snood. | How to Sew a Snood A different fabric snood pattern |
| Brimming With Love Another charity page, with ideas for sewn, crocheted and knit hats - they have a nice list of suggested commercial patterns | Tudor Flat Cap A flat cap tutorial, with adaptation for the women's version |
| How to Make a Hat A hat pattern to enlarge, but no directions | Fleece Ski Cap |
| Eddie Cap Tutorial Sized for a child, but could be scaled up | Head n Tails A pdf file, pattern for a headwrap style scarf |
| Ruffled Hat | Wild Things! Wild Ginger has a free demo program that will create patterns for a variety of hats - a sunhat, baseball cap, newsboy cap, beret and others |
| Tie Head Scarf Another headscarf - this one is scaled for young girls | Caul Cap |
| Pretied Scarf Rough directions, with limited photos | Pretied Scarf - attempt deux Another variation for a pretied scarf |
| Wide headband Increase the depth of the band for more head coverage. | Headband/Headscarf |
| There are lots of commercial patterns available. I've made hat 'I' from McCall's 3044 and pre-tied scarf 'G' from McCall's 4116. I recently puchased the book "Happy Hats and Cool Caps" by Anne-Metter Hermansen and Tina Elnef. It has lots of hats in lots of sizes, but I think the directions are best interpreted by more experienced sewers. I found them to be confusing in places. | |
| Cloche and Bowler Hats Not exactly a pattern, but my directions to make a cloche style hat. And a variation to make a bowler. | Custom Beret Crochet a beret. Web archive page. |
| Shoshie's Scarf Liner This is amazing! Crochet up one of these, and watch your headscarf stay put! | Floppy Hat Considerably more ambitious, but I think it could be easily simplified if wanted. |
| Headhuggers.org A charity to give hats to those with hair loss. Crochet, knit and sewn patterns. | Crocheted Adult Hat Links A gadzillion more crocheted hats! Archive page, so links will eventually become outdated. |
| Tam with Rose Hat Crocheted beret with cotton thread | Hats, Kerchiefs, Scarves & Snoods A list of crochet pattern links |
| Floppy Brim Hat I made a summer weight version of this in worsted weight cotton yarn (adjusting the hook size to match the gauge) It came out cute! | Ribbed Scarf & Brimmed Hat Set |
| Rolled Crochet Hat | Hat and Scarf |
| Rasta Hat A tam pattern | Turban Style Cancer Cap A crocheted turban |
| Three Triangle Babushkas Headscarves - would have to be made larger for full head coverage - Web archive page | Floppy Hat |
| Yarncat's Hats Includes a newsboy cap, three way cap and many more | Crochet Newsboy Cap |
| Crocheted Newsboy Cap or Beret From the photo, it looks sized for a teen. Archive Page. | Two Brimmed Hats |
| Crocheted Cap/Beret | |
| Hat with Crochet Flowers | Vintage Patterns for Hats Has a child's sized brimmed hat |
| Brimmed HatCap with a bill | |
| Half Looped | Patterns by Dot Many hat patterns in this index. |
| Braided Knot A web archive page | Tweed Cloche Also a web archive page |
| Homespun Cloche From Lion Brand | Lion Suede Cap Also from Lion Brand |
| Hats, Kerchiefs, Scarves & Snoods A list of knitting pattern links | Patterns for ChemoCaps Patterns for knit hats with full coverage |
| Chemo Toque | Roll Brim Hat |
| Pocket Scarf and Beret | Felted Brimmed and Pillbox Hats |
| Headhuggers | Adult Hats List of links from About.com |
| Patterns for Chemotherapy Caps | Coronet Hat A beanie with a nice cabled band |
| Chemo Do-Rag Scroll down the page, a knitted do-rag | |
| Hand Knit Beret Beret pattern generator | Mohair Beret |
| Knitted Hat Another beret | Berets Multiple sizes from Mary Maxim |
| Newsboy Cap | Newsboy Pattern Generator |
| Shopping for Headwear If you aren't crafty, or want something easier - shopping sites for Headwear | |
| Tznius.com A site that sells really great Israeli headscarves. Here's their instructions for tying scarves. | |
| Shoshie's Scarf Liner I love this idea so much, it goes on the page twice. Crochet up one of these, and watch your headscarf stay put! | Millinery By Jane Loewen This is very neat. An online book on hat making |
| Head Scarves More headscarf directions | |
| How to Keep Veil/Turban on Your Head Some tips | Sarong as a Head Scarf Tying as a knotted scarf. See also Sarong as a Turban |
| Scarf Tying | Headwraps Directions for African style headwraps, with links to more directions |
| How To Tie/Styling Ideas Directions for a specific commercial product | Breast Cancer Scarves Some scarf tying ideas |
| How To Tie a Tiechel Directions for a bun-styled tie | |
| Ideas for Wearing a Headcovering Tips from a site that sells religious oriented headcoverings | Scarves - An Elegant ALternative Scarf tying ideas from a site that sells cancer oriented headcoverings |
| Yarn thickness chart Compare US and Australian/UK terms. | KCG Trading Limited, Conversion Charts Conversions for needle, hook, yarn, and stitch terminology |
| Head Sizes Height and circumference from preemie to adult | |
| Pictures of some of the headcoverings that I've made up | |
| Yarmulka A web archive page. | Yarmulka #2Another archived page. |
| Kipa | Kipa A web archive page |
| Fishy Boy's Stars & Stripes Kippah | Knitted Kippah |
| How to crochet a kippah | Crochet Yarmulke |
| The Accidental Kippah knit |
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