Pride Hairpin Lace Banner

Happy Pride! To honor the month where we celebrate gender and sexual diversity, I designed a thing.

The banner I designed is meant to hang on my wall and is multi-functional. It can be a great device to help you with chakra mediation/cleansing. You can also use it as a cape and wear it to pride with pride!

You will need:

1. Scrap yarn in 8 colors:

2. Red

3. Orange

4. Yellow

5. Green

6. Blue/Turquoise

7. Deep blue/indigo

8. Purple

9. Rainbow variegated

10. A Hairpin lace loom

11. Crochet Hook Size J (10 mm)

12. A stick about 18-20 inches (45-50 cm) long

If you need a refresher on how to make hairpin lace, here’s a video to get you started from Bernat Yarns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6j-fuxuP54

1. Set your loom to 4 inches apart (should be the widest setting on most standard looms, but measure with a ruler to make sure)

2. With the first seven colors (all except the variegated yarn), make 7 hairpin lace strips with 150 loops (lps), 75 on each side.

3. If you’re not going to join them right away, roll them up so they don’t get twisted.

4. To join them together: Push hook through first 3 loops at the top. Push the hook through the first 3 loops of the strip you want to join it to. Pull those loops through the first 3 loops of the first strip. Push your hook through the next 3 loops on the first strip and pull them through the first 3 loops from the next strip. Continue down (take the next 3 on one strip, pull it through the 3 loops on your hook, take the next 3 on the other strip…)

5. Join them in ROYGBIV order left to right.

6. Border: With the variegated yarn, sl st and ch 1 through the first 3 loops on the end. Sc 2. *Push yarn through next 3 loops, sc 3. Repeat from * until the end.

7. Tie the middle of each strand to the stick, spacing them as evenly as you can (this is supposed to look rustic, so perfection isn’t the goal). Use the variegated yarn to create a string to hang the banner from.

8. ALTERNATIVELY: sc across the top of the banner, leave really long strands to tie around your neck. Now, you have a custom cape to wear to Pride!

9. You can also use this pattern to customize your own Pride cape representing your gender identity/sexual orientation (pink, blue, and white for trans; pink, purple and blue for bi; grey, white, black and purple for Ace, etc. You may have to add 1-2 strips to keep your colors even, but if this is something you’re interested in, please let me know and I can write out a pattern for you!)

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