Crochet Your Own Plastic-Free Headphone Ear Pads

Back in January, I posted on my Facebook profile:
The foam pads (read: plastic) on my headphones are wearing out. Motivation to learn to crochet because I hate round knitting.
Well, this weekend, April 23, I finally summoned up the motivation to learn enough crochet basics to fix my headphones.
See, even though I use my wooden thinksound ear buds for most electronic listening, I also have a pair of big cordless headphones for watching TV late at night and another scrappy pair of regular headphones that probably came with an old Walkman or something. The foam pads on both pairs were just in shreds. And while it’s possible to buy replacements, I didn’t want any new plastic.
So, after Googling for a while (my favorite thing) I found some instructions for crocheting my own.
Crochet Headphone Covers from Craftbits.com
Crochet: Headphone Covers, Revisited from Sewhooked.org.
Great! Except I didn’t know how to crochet. My grandmother… Read the rest