{"id":1854,"date":"2017-05-17T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindadeancrochet.com\/blog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:39:33","slug":"crochet-hats-de-mystified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindadeancrochet.com\/blog\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Crochet Hats De-Mystified"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It is interesting that you completely forget how you felt about something before it became common place. Okay, that sentence could apply to many things in today\u2019s day and age, however I was personally thinking of my crochet. A conversation I had with a student juggled a little something free in my mind about hats.<\/p>\n

I find crocheting hats a pretty relaxing past time at this point in my life, enough so that the yarn I post about on Fridays … that swatch usually becomes a hat\u2026but I didn\u2019t always feel that way. Hats were intimidating to me, probably because the only crochet hats I had seen as a kid growing up were usually worked vertically with short rows. I had never really seen a top down, or even bottom up worked crochet hat, until probably college.<\/p>\n

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Top down hats start as a flat circle<\/p><\/div>\n

That does make my crochet life sound a bit sheltered, maybe it was. I did teach myself after all and I primarily crocheted with \u201chand-me-down\u201d yarn form other people\u2019s stashes. I made doll clothes and scarves, but if it was something to be adorned or admired, I made afghans \u2026hundreds of them.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I would contemplate working a hat, I was always befuddled by the dome shape, and having it actually fit. Little did I realize how easy it was to make, so easy that since I learned it I have never looked back. Essentially a top down crochet hat begins with a flat circle. Yes, a flat circle. This seems a little counterintuitive, but it works. Creating a flat circle simply requires adding the number of stitches worked in round 1 to be added evenly throughout all other rounds. Meaning if I begin the first round with 12 double crochets, then I add 12 double crochets evenly in each following round, so round 2 would have 24 double crochets, and round 3 would have 36 double crochets.<\/p>\n

After the circle is worked to a point where the outer edge, the circumference, measures the circumference of the head (usually somewhere between 20\u201d and 22\u201d (51-56 cm) for a typical adult), then you quit working any increasing stitches and continue working even (a single stitch in every stitch around), until you have the hat the desired length.<\/p>\n

Here is a really basic pattern for a hat, nothing fancy\u2026<\/p>\n

Using any yarn and a corresponding hook,<\/p>\n

Rnd 1: Ch 4, 11 dc in 4th<\/sup> ch from hook, sl st to top of beg ch. (12 dc)<\/p>\n

Rnd 2: Ch 3, dc in same st, 2 dc in each st around, sl st to join. (24 dc)<\/p>\n

Rnd 3: Ch 3, dc in same st, dc in next st, [2 dc in next st, dc in next st] around, sl st to join. (36 dc)<\/p>\n

Note: Depending on your yarn and hook only continue working Rnds until circumference of hat is met with circumference of the circle, then work Body of Hat.<\/p>\n

Rnd 4: Ch 3, dc in same st, dc in next 2 sts, [2 dc in next st, dc in next 2 sts] around, sl st to join. (48 dc)<\/p>\n

Rnd 5: Ch 3, dc in same st, dc in next 3 sts, [2 dc in next st, dc in next 3 sts] around, sl st to join. (60 dc)<\/p>\n

Rnd 6: Ch 3, dc in same st, dc in next 4 sts, [2 dc in next st, dc in next 4 sts] around, sl st to join. (72 dc)<\/p>\n

Rnd 7: Ch 3, dc in same st, dc in next 5 sts, [2 dc in next st, dc in next 5 sts] around, sl st to join. (84 dc)<\/p>\n

Body of Hat<\/p>\n

Ch 3, dc in each st around, sl st to join. Repeat this Rnd until hat is desired length.<\/p>\n

Fasten off and weave in ends.<\/p>\n

Make a few hats, and considering helping your local community by donating a few to your local homeless shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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