Blueberry Bandana came about as a quick and easy stash-busting project to keep my hands busy for a couple of weeks. This lightweight bandana uses lace/fingering weight yarn and a light worsted weight yarn. It features a loose stockinette stitch fabric with i-cord edges.

Made to be easy for any beginner, with video demonstrations for key steps, it is knitted flat with simple increases to shape the bandana as you go. The i-cord edging is worked afterwards.

This bandana can be knitted in animal-fibre yarns for autumn and winter or plant-based yarns for summer, making it a year-round accessory!

Difficulty Level
Beginner

Techniques Used
Cast on
Bind off
Decreasing (K2TOG) (P2TOG)
I-cord (instructions and videos included in the pattern)
Knit & Purl
Increasing (M1L) (M1R)
Working flat on RS + WS
Picking up stitches
Stockinette stitch

Click here for tutorial/demonstration videos on how to add the i-cord edging!

Materials
Yarn:
15 g Lace/Fingering Weight Yarn
Drops Kid Silk Colour 39 - used in blue bandana (25 g = 210 meters)
Katia Alexandria Colour 01 - used in white bandana (100g = 400 meters)

20 g Light Worsted Weight Yarn
Drops Cotton Light (50 g = 105 meters) Colour 33 - used in blue bandana
Colour 01 - used in blue bandana

Needles:
5mm (US 8) needles (either 30 cm straight needles or 5mm circular needles with 20 cm cord)
3.5mm (US 4) 13 cm double pointed needles

Notions:
Tapestry Needle
Scissors / Thread Snips
Finished Measurements
Long i-cord edge - approx. 100 cm
Bandana point to i-cord edge - approx. 30 cm

Gauge
Lace/Fingering Weight Yarn on 5mm needles (US 8): 10 x 10 cm = 20 sts x 25 rows in stockinette stitch

Light Worsted Weight Yarn on 3.5mm needles (US 4): 10 x 10 cm = 22 sts x 30 rows in stockinette stitch

If your gauge is not perfect (meaning off by a couple of stitches), don’t worry! This is an accessory, so it won’t make a huge difference.