 So today we are going to be doing a headband, what I like to call a boho headband bohemian because it has a kind of a bohemian pattern to it. This is only half of it, by the end of it we'll be working two of these pieces and sewing them together with the mustard color yarn. So we're using three different shades here, a brown, a mint color, dark brown, and a mustard color. And we're also going to be using Red Heart's Boutique yarn. Measuring your head, what I usually do is take a piece of yarn, wrap it around my head, get a feel of the yarn that you're going to be using for the project. This one is fairly stretchy, so it has a lot of give, so when I put this one around my head and measure it, go around your forehead to the back of the nape of your neck and bring the two ends together and make it so it has a little bit of stretch and it's tight a little bit so that when you get it on your head it doesn't just slide off. So when I do that with my head it measures about 19 inches around, but we chain less than that because it's going to stretch. So this chain I chained and it changed to about 17 and a half inches, and I want the number of chains to be in twos, so we're going to make them an even number of chains and then once you've chained an even number of chains, chain two more at the end because you're going to be working a double crochet back through. So here I'm at 88 and I'm holding this chain at the end, I'm going to chain two and then I'm going to go into where my 88th stitch. So you're really chaining 90 and doing your first stitch, I'm going to do double crochet and doing your first stitch into the 88th chain stitch. So this entire row is going to be double crochet and I'll meet you back. Okay so we've worked the row of double crochets and we're going to work into our last stitch and then we're going to switch colors. So yarn through or put your hook through the last loop, yarn over pull through once, yarn over pull through both loops, then here's where we add our greens so we're going to pick up our green, wrap it around our hook and we're going to pull it through the last two loops that creates our final stitch and our chain, it completes the stitch. So now we are going to kind of pull it taut and we're going to yarn, chain one, we're going to do double crochets in the next row, we're going to chain two and I'm going to turn the work. This chain two is not going to count as our first double crochet because we have other things that we need to do and then I'll show you in a minute. So we're going to work these two tails in to our work as we move along so kind of wrap them around the back, you're going to hide them back there. When you go through this chain you're also going to go through the tails so we're going to do our first double crochet in this first stitch after this, after the chain so it's not going to be this chain, it's going to be this one. So you go through, you got your other yarns there, yarn over pull through once, yarn over pull through twice, yarn over pull through the third time and see this is just going to end up being kind of like our border, this is our first double crochet, our second double crochet was worked into the same stitch as the first one and it creates a V so yarn over pull through, yarn over pull through two, pull through three and there's your second double crochet and then we're going to work on like this we're going to skip one, work into the next we're going to yarn over, skip one, I'm sorry just go through the same chain, oops I accidentally pulled through our tails so I'm going to pull that back out you can get a little cumbersome working with the tails in but it's easier than when you get towards the end you don't have to weave them all back through with the needle so there is our two double crochet or four double crochets you do these into the same chains so you have one chain here has two double crochets skip it, skip a chain and then the next one has two double crochets then you're going to skip a chain and go into the next one and work two double crochets into the same stitch, skip one, move to the next one you see I'm still working those tails in when they get towards the end they will begin to kind of go a little wild so here I'm just doing double crochets skip one, go into that one these double crochets will create a V pattern because you're crocheting into the same stitch we're not putting any chains in between because we want to keep the stitch count at a certain number and so here we have you can see our pattern starting to form and so here we've got one two first stitch second third fourth so I wanted to keep my stitch count the same if possible so this is one we worked into this stitch there we skipped that one we have worked into that one and skip that one so that's a chains on the lower level it's one two three four and so up here you can see I've got one two three four stitches that's what I want to keep so work this until the end and I will see you back at the other side so I've ended the other green row and we're now going to add in this mustard color which we changed over to the color what we're going to do here is we're going to do a spiky stitch throughout the whole entire row using single crochets so we're going to single crochet the first two chain stitches or the first two stitches chain single crochet we're working in the tail ends also into this stitch so we've got two single crochets for our first two stitches of the row four one two three and this is a row four and we're going to single crochet into the double crochet spaces space right there in between these two double crochet so put your hook in underneath the chain and in between the two stitches pull up to the level so it's the same level yarn over pull through there's your single crochet then we're going to single crochet into the next stitch yarn over pull through kind of work these hidden ones back and then we're going to single crochet into the next double crochet spaces bring it up pull through that one little tiny straggler there we go then single crochet into the next one single crochet single crochet we're working the tails in we're almost to the end see we got those little stragglers crochet and we're going to work this pattern all the way to the end of the row and I will meet you back here at the end that's what it begins look like so it has a little bit of a spike stitch come to the end of this row and what I'm going to do is we're going to add the new color so we're going to frog that stitch frogging is just when you add the new color you take out the old color then you're going to go back in and start the stitch but we're going to finish it with the new color so there we go and pull everything a little tight and we're going to work these ends we're going to do a chain one and then turn and then we're going to crochet in the tan color or the mustard color because we're not going to we're not going to cut it we're going to just chain it on in there with this color so we don't have another tail hanging out so we're going to do a single crochet in this entire row and that's basically going to be the entire stitch so we're going to go into this very first stitch here we're going to work in those ends the mustard blue are getting worked in and this yarn that I'm using the blue yarn is a brand named called unforgettable and I will post that information inside the instructions so here we go we have our first row and I will meet you guys back at the other end we've completed the row of blue and now we worked our mustard stitch we've weaved it in as we went along so it's over here at the end for us to pick up we're still going to take out the last stitch of frugging it and then we're going to pick up the mustard color there we've got two we're going to drop the blue pick up the mustard and pull through that will give us our last so we're going to chain one we're going to turn the row turn it in the and cut the blue because we're not we don't need it here we're going to single crochet into the first stitch we're going to grab that yarn to so we're going to hide the blue tail we've got our first single crochet so we've done our first single crochet and now we're going to work into the bottom edge of the blue rows down here so we're going to do another spike stitch but it's going to be over those rows underneath so what you do is you kind of look to see where the top chains are these are chains one two three four so what we're going to do here it's a little interesting is we're going to the second chain we're going to go straight down into the middle of those two down here bring it up to the top pull through single crochet and then we're going to do a single crochet in the next chain we're working in that blue yarn to hiding it and then we're going to go down again in between next these two I just pulled something through that keeps happening to me that's okay so in the middle of these two orange or mustard stitches and go down pull it up pull through single crochet into the next stitch and down into the middle of these two we're going to work our way like that across the entire row so single crochet into the next stitch down in between single crochet and single crochet in between two stitches so that's what it's going to be look like and I will meet you at the end we have come to the end of row seven and now we've single crochet the entire row in the mustard all the way up to the end and we're going to switch to turquoise now and so we're going to frog that stitch like we did the other ones so you pull it out and then we're going to go back in I'm going to chain one through and then we're going to finish off the stitch with our turquoise then this last row is going to be different so come right back to you okay so we've got our first blue I'm going to go ahead and snip the mustard color because we don't need it anymore then we're going to just work with the turquoise on this last row and I say last row because it is going to be the last row we do and we're going to repeat this entire section and then sew it together at the end so this is just going to be a row of single crochets so we're going to do a single crochet row of the turquoise to the very end and I'm going to work these two ends in so I'm working these loose ends back in like we did before so you don't have to go back through and do a bunch of sewing at the end so work this entire row single crochets and when we turn the video back on or the next edit cut we'll show you how to piece together these two pieces to make your completed headband so now we're at the end of the row here and I'm going to go ahead and snip the blue we're going to just yarn over and pull through the last loop and then just kind of tighten it off like that so then we have our finished pieces what we're going to do is make two of these looks like I got a little fray in there but that's okay I'll make sure to tuck it back in so what we're going to do is make two of those then we're going to put them together like this and that's going to be your finished headband so once I make the second one I'll come back and we'll show you how to sew them together using the mustard colored yarn okay so I'm going to start off here in these first two top stitches going through the bottom rows and just do a normal sewing stitch I'm going to bring it up to right towards the end of the where I've made a little knot but I'm not going to close it up and then just keep working your way into the top of each of those stitches through hopefully not getting it tangled up I'll do a couple like this and then show you what they look like so when you actually turn it over it's going to look like that and I'll show you at the end we'll see then we've come up on the end of our piecing it together so what I'm going to do for the very end is I'm going to go in to the edge the very last stitches and tie it together I'm using my hook because I just think it's easier than using needles just pull it on through and then I'm going to go back through and just kind of try to tie it off actually I think I might go back through the same stitches bring it back through I'm going to take that loop put the other end in and tie a knot just make it go tight and I'm going to cut it off a few inches down the row and work that back in probably down here and into the gold to hide it the tail so this is the finished piece together headband that's the this is the wrong side which looks I like the way these stitches look this is the okay so once you've it completed both sides we're going to join these two pieces together like this these are my two tails I still need to work those in but we're going to join these two pieces together in the same way we did the middle stitch and after you've completed that and this way can be a little bit more difficult but you just need to match up as best you can the edges and match them with the stitch here is the finished headband this is the seam side which is going to go on the bottom in the back I should have used the brown here because I don't like the way that that looks so I recommend using the brown to go ahead and seam it together I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I hope you enjoy wearing your new boho headband