Quick and Easy Hat

Crochet Hat_Quick and Easy Hat PDF

Pattern for use by kind permission of Anneke Sevink

A blanket can keep almost all of a child warm, but they still need something to protect their heads from the cold! Please make sure that the Quick and Easy Hat is large enough to fit a child’s head. Proportionally, a four year old’s head is almost the size of an adult, so please keep that in mind when you are crocheting. If the hat fits you, it will fit a child.

Materials and Tools

• Light worsted weight yarn (American)/DK (UK)/8 ply (Aus)
• 4.5 mm/US 7 hook

OR

• Worsted weight yarn (American)/Aran (UK)/10 ply (Aus)
• 5.00mm/US 8 hook

Abbreviations

Note: Pattern uses American terminology

Special Stitches

Front post double crochet (FPdc): yarn over, insert hook around post of stitch from right to left, yarn over, complete dc as usual.

Instructions

To make the Quick and Easy Hat, chain 3, join with sl st.

Sc 6 sts in ring

Mark each round at the beginning with a stitch marker. Work in spiral; do not join at the end of a round.

Rnd 1: 2 sc in each sc around. (12 sts)

Rnd 2: *1 sc in first sc, 2 sc in next sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 3: *1 sc in next 2 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 4: *2 sc in first sc, 1 sc in next 3 sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 5: *1 sc in next 4 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 6: *2 sc in first sc, 1 sc in next 5 sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 7: *1 sc in next 6 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 8: *2 sc in first sc, 1 sc in next 7 sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 9: *1 sc in next 8 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 10: *2 sc in first sc, 1 sc in next 9 sc*; rep from * to * around.

Rnd 11: *1 sc in next 10 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; rep from *to * around.

Rnd 12: Sc around and repeat until the hat measures 7” (18cm), join with a slip stitch.

EDGING

Continue working with the same yarn OR fasten off and add new colour.

Finished width of brim: 1.5” (4cm).

Rnd 1: Ch 3, dc in each stitch around, join with a slip stitch in the top of the beginning ch 3, do not turn.

Rnd 2: Ch 3 (counts as dc); * FPdc around post of the next dc of the previous round, dc in next dc of the previous round*. Repeat from * to *; slip stitch in the top of the ch 3, do not turn.

Rnd 3: Ch 1, sc in each stitch around. Slip stitch in the ch 1 of the beginning of the round. Fasten off.

Weave in all ends.

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