Hair Accessory Tutorials

Hair accessories make quick and easy crafts, either to keep, give, or sell, and can often be used from materials you can find around your house.

• Beaded Bobby Pins
• Beads, wire, and bobby pins make this cute and quick hair accessory.

• Reversible Headbands
• This tutorial requires fabric, elastic, and interfacing, and comes with a printable template.

• Hairbows
• This bow tutorial uses fabric and ribbonand is perfect for anyone you know who hosts teddy bear filled tea parties.

• Hairclips
• I personally wear these all the time. You can make them to match every single outfit you have.

• Dainty Flowers
• This tutorial involves singeing fabric to create elegant little flowers.

• Fabric Covered Buttons
• These buttons make perfect gifts. You can add them to hair ties, clips, or headbands.

• Vinyl Hair Accessories
• This tutorial is great for any vinyl scraps you have laying around.

• Feather Hair Accessories
• Adding feathers to headbands and other accessories is really in style right now.

• Braided Fabric Clip
• This tutorial involves braiding scrap fabric to make a little colorful circle to wear in your hair. 

• Rose Hair Pin

• Again winding fabric into a circle, this tutorial involves a feather as well and is perfect for the aforementioned tea party enthusiast.

Keep in mind.
Most of these tutorials are for personal use only. Consult creator of tutorial for any questions you have regarding the project or the sale of any product resulted from the use of the tutorial. 
In addition.
None of these tutorials are my own. All rights to all tutorials featured here are owned by the creators of the tutorials. If any creator would like me to remove the link to his/her tutorial, let me know and I will remove any link or reference to it.

Free Cowl Patterns

A cowl, from the Latin cuculla meaning "hood and rope," is a garment historically used to give warmth to monks who often spent long hours in unheated and drafty churches. Today, cowls are fashionable neck warmers or hoods usually knit or crocheted in the round using lace and cabling techniques.

Knitting.

• Old Shale Smoke Ring by Cosymakes
• Simple lace ripple pattern

• Good Luck Cowl by Drop Stitch Knitter
• Simple lace leaf pattern

• Burberry Inspired Cowl Neck Scarf by The Garter Girl
• Cabled pattern based off of an expensive cowl from Burberry

• Quickie Cowl by f.pea
• Quick lacy pattern that can be both a cowl and a headband

• Incognito Cowl by Knitty
• Cowl with mustache knitted into it. Perfect disguise, really. Sizes for both children and adults.

• Cables and Eyelets Cowl by Paper Tiger
• Lacy cable cowl available for download

• Fresco Basket Whip Cowl by Classic Elite Yarns 
• Lacy pattern reminiscent of a dance step called the Basket Whip

Crocheting.

• Black Hole Cowl Pattern by Elletrain Knits
• Giant cowl with large button

• Convertible Cowl by The Crimson Owl
• Chunky cowl that is both a neck warmer and a hood 

• Honeycomb Lattice Button Cowl by Diffusible Interfacing
• Buttoned cowl with a diamond honeycomb texture

• Ribbed Cowl by Oh Baby O
• Simple lacy ribbed pattern

• Cabled Cowl by The Art of Megan
• Cabled pattern

• Skull Cowl by Kimmi's Krafts
• Two-color pattern with skulls stitched in

• One Row Lace Cowl by Without Seams
• Simple lacy cowl for download

Keep in mind.
Most of these patterns are for personal use only. Consult creator of pattern for any questions you have regarding the pattern or the sale of any product resulted from the use of the pattern. 
In addition.
None of these patterns are my own. All rights to all patterns featured here are owned by the creators of the patterns. If any creator would like me to remove the link to his/her pattern, let me know and I will remove any link or reference to the pattern.

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