Ever since seeing the most recent re-imagining of Wonder Woman (the 2018 Gal Gadot movie), I’ve been thinking about how cool her updated tiara and wrist cuffs looked. I became obsessed with the idea of making a headband/earwarmer pattern that would evoke the front plate of her tiara and spent a lot of time fooling around with fingering weight swatches until I realized that it would be much simpler to just do cables in worsted weight! Fortunately I had some lovely bronze-colored Wool of the Andes leftover from a previous project and was able to start designing right away.
One of the things that initially slowed me down was trying to be too faithful to the original tiara, at the cost of what would work best for the actual knitting. It took a lot of ripping and reknitting before I had a pattern that felt fun and intuitive to knit, while still evoking the original inspiration. I hope others think so too!
Now that I’ve got it out in the world, I’m back to noodling on a matching pair of wristers to complete the cold weather set. Get ready for…more i-cord.
Diana Headband is available in my ravelry store.
