If you’re a music lover and always have your headphones with you then I have a crochet pattern for you! One of the ways I keep my focus while I’m working is to have my music playing on my noise cancelling headphones. Whether it’s computer work or trying to work my way through a crochet piece (especially sleeve island!) I rely on music to maintain my attention on the task at hand.
I’ve been seeing lots of headphone accessories come up when I’m scrolling Instagram and thought that it would be fun to create something to decorate mine with yarn! I set out to come up with a base cover that I could then decorate with other pieces and appliques. I used my Lovely Day Wall Hanging flower patterns to add to the base, so if you need those you can find them on that blog post. But here I’ll share with you the free pattern for the headphone cover.
You could also do some color changes to create stripes or just simply have a simple one color cover to just have that touch of crochet texture on your headphones.
Materials:
- Approximately 46 yds/42 m of dk/light/3 weight yarn
- E/4/3.5 mm hook
- B/14/2 mm hook for stretch cord
- .5 mm Clear Stretch Cord
- Two 1 cm buttons
- Thread
- Sewing Needle
- Scissors
- Tapestry Needle
- Measuring Tape
Gauge:
First Three Rounds = 2″ unblocked
Gauge is important to your project so your finished piece will be the size specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be sufficient. The hook size for the pattern is based on what I used, but gauge can vary from person to person and be affected by yarn. If it takes you fewer stitches and rounds to make 2”, try using a smaller size hook; if more stitches and rounds, try a larger size hook.
Stitches and Abbreviations (US Terms):
- BLO – back loop only
- ch(s) – chain(s)
- dc – double crochet
- hdc – half double crochet
- rnd(s) – round(s)
- RS – right side
- sc – single crochet
- sk – skip
- sl st – slip stitch
- sp – space
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- tr – treble crochet
- WS – wrong side
Notes:
- Joins are made with a slip stitch into the first stitch of the round unless otherwise stated.
- Pattern is in written instructions with a picture tutorial to attach crochet pieces to cover.
- Stitches between [ ] are to be repeated total number of times indicated.
- Stitches between ( ) are to all be worked in the same stitch.
- Full disclosure, I am not well versed in embroidery. I used the simplest of techniques, straight small lines to create simple shapes as background detail to the crocheted appliques.
- Finished crocheted covers are 5″ wide and 5″ tall, this fits my Polaroid Bluetooth Headphones that are 4.5″ vertically from earpad to earpad (height), 4″ vertically from bottom earpad to base of head strap (secondary height), and 4″ horizontally from earpad to earpad (width). Hole for head strap would fit a strap up to 1.5″ wide. Pattern will work best with rectangle/oval shaped headphones and there is some stretch and room for this to fit other brands of headphones.
- Square or Round headphone tip, if you need a cover that is rounder or square replace the treble crochet in row 4 with double crochet.
Measuring:
Height- From earpad to earpad, where the padded fabric meets the plastic of the headphone, measure from the center bottom to just beside the head strap at the top.
Secondary Height- From earpad to head strap, start center bottom where the padded fabric meets the plastic of the headphone, straight up to the base of the head strap.
Width- From earpad to earpad horizontally across the middle of the headphones.
Sizing Tips:
- After round 4 is complete, you want the piece to fit on the flat face of the headphones before it begins curving in. If this isn’t big enough, add a round of dc in each stitch and a double crochet, ch 1, double crochet in each chain 1 space. Then continue with the pattern as written.
- After round 6 is complete, you want to be able to lay the cover on like it would be once finished, the top of the rectangle should hit right at the base of the head strap. Add or remove a row to fit needed.
- After done with entire pattern, the cover should fit where the edges just hit the beginning of the padded ear piece.
Headphone Covers Pattern
Make 2.
Working with your E hook and yarn,
Rnd. 1: In magic circle, ch 2, dc 2, [ch 1, dc 3] 3 times, ch 1, join with a sl st to top of ch 2. Close magic circle. (12 dc, 4 ch sps)
**Chain 2 counts as a stitch ONLY for this first round and working the first stitch of next round. After that, you will not count it as a stitch.
Rnd. 2: Ch 2, [dc 3, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp] 4 times, join with a sl st to top of first st. (20 dc, 4 ch sps)
Rnd. 3: Ch 2, dc 4, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp, [dc 5, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp] 3 times, dc, join. (28 dc, 4 ch sps)
Rnd. 4: Ch 2, tr 5, (tr, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp, dc 7, (dc, ch 1, tr) in ch 1 sp, tr 7, (tr, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp, dc 7, (dc, ch 1, tr) in ch 1 sp, tr 2, join. (18 tr, 18 dc, 4 ch sps)
Rnd. 5: Ch 2, dc BLO 6, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp, [dc BLO 9, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp] 3 times, dc BLO 3, join. (44 dc, 4 ch sps)
Rnd. 6: Ch 2, dc BLO 7, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp, [dc BLO 11, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch 1 sp] 3 times, dc BLO 4, join . (52 dc, 4 ch sps)
Rnd. 7: Sk first st, sl st 5, ch 1, hdc in same st as last sl st, hdc 2, (hdc, ch 1, hdc) in ch 1 sp, [hdc 13, (hdc, ch 1, hdc) in ch 1 sp] 3 times, hdc 3. (53 hdc, 4 ch sps)
Row 8: Ch 1, turn, sc 3rd loop 4, sk ch 1 sp, sc 3rd loop 15, sk ch 1 sp, sc 3rd loop 15, sk ch 1 sp, sc 3rd loop 15, sk ch 1 sp, sc 3rd loop 4. (53 sc)
Row 9: Ch 15, sl st into 6th ch from hook and next 9 chs, sl st 53.
Fasten off. Weave in ends.
With B hook and stretch cord,
With RS facing you, attach cord to the corner of the left side at the base to the button strap, go into the single crochet from row 8 and under the slip stitches from row 9. You’ll use the cord just like yarn.
Row 1: Surface sl st with the stretch cord in each st across. (53)
Fasten off. Weave in cord ends.
Sew button on right corner across from strap.
The left and right side covers are exactly the same. You will just button your cover around the head strap and then pull the headphone cover down and around the headphone until it’s on snugly.
Decorating Tips:
The possibilities for decorating your headphone covers if really endless or until you run out of ideas. I want to share some inspiration with you by showing you how I decorated a few pairs myself. All of the decoration elements I added to these covers are also FREE crochet patterns on my blog so you can recreate what I’ve done here if you want to!
I think this is the best part of these headphone covers. While they are cute stand alone, the pattern is pretty minimalist on its own. If you want your covers to have some character, you can add your own unique touch and personality to them with some decorations and really bring them to life! Here are a few patterns I used to add to my covers.
Flowers
For the floral versions I made here I used the flower patterns from the Lovely Day Wall Hanging Crochet Pattern. This pattern is available for free on the blog and comes with a couple other flowers more than I used here. You can recreate almost any kind of floral arrangement you want. I love to search Pinterest for photographs of bouquets or drawings of floral arrangements and try to recreate them with the thread flowers.
You can also get the Lovely Day Wall Hanging in my Etsy or Ravelry shop and that pattern comes with examples of how to make several flower arrangements, most of which could be used on the headphone covers as well.
Mushroom
You can recreate this mushroom version by using the Mushroom Mod Free Crochet Pattern. Originally, the mushroom modification was created as an addition to the Lovely Day Wall Hanging and the flowers. It can be used just as easily to modify the headphone covers!
You can find the pattern for this large mushroom as well as a smaller mushroom. Create an entire family of mushrooms if you want to!
Bow
I’m always looking for more ways to bring bows into my accessories and crochet. Adding a bow to these headphones is super quick and super simple and the finished look is ADORABLE.
You can use the Back to School Bows Crochet Pattern, which is free on my blog, to make this layered bow. I used the square tailed version. You can do the pattern as written or if you want to make longer tails, like I did here, just add a few rows on each side of your bows tail.
Hopefully those sparked some inspiration for you or you loved one of them enough to recreate it with the available patterns. I would love to see your headphone covers if you make them! Feel free to tag me on Instagram, @woodland.stitchcraft.
