<p>For Christmas I made a lot of Swatch Bangles for the girls in my family. I thought to myself, ‘what a clever and useful pattern’ - especially since these days I’m living vicariously paycheck to paycheck.

<p>Then I looked at my wardrobe and wondered what else I could recycle and refresh. I saw my impressive collection of headbands hanging by my mirror and the lightbulb went off in my head and I set to work figuring out how to make high fashion headbands for way less (free, in fact, if you have some stash yarn). And just like the swatch bangles, when you get tired of a certain design on one of your headbands, just rip out the seam and make a new design! Not only that, but the headbands I used for this pattern was a headband that used to give me major headaches, and now that it’s got a headband swatch around it, it’s much more comfortable and doesn’t give me a headache anymore! (Not to mention it matches a lot more of my outfits since it’s not black with white polka dots anymore :P) Now, I know the frigid temperatures are coming to an end and spring is upon us, so a knitted headband isn’t in everyone’s best interest - but they make fantastic gifts and work up quite quickly! Get a head start on your holiday presents for next year! So grab your stash yarn and do up your headbands, Blair Waldorf style!