I have been on a crochet baby hat marathon over the last couple months. I ran across this pattern on Pinterest and it is so simple, and quick. I can usually finish a baby size hat in a couple hours.
I first started making baby hats for our soon-to-be son or daughter, then matching ones from my older kids as a gift for when the baby comes. Since we aren't finding out the gender I had to make one of each color...just in case. It then expanded to making hats for several friends who are having babies, a couple of Christmas gifts, and...well, you get the picture.
You can get the full pattern and directions from Moogly. I modified the pattern just slightly, the two things I did differently were:
1) Instead of doing only three chains in Round 2. I just skipped the second step and went directly from 6 sc in the magic ring to six loops (which is what you have at the end of round 3) by doing one [sc, ch 3, dc] in each of the original 6 stitches. I found this to make the top of the hat lay flatter. I followed the directions for my blue hat and made the improvisation in the pink hat. The blue hat seems to have more of a "bump" of bulk at the start.
2) The second change I made was that I didn't change my hook size for the brim. I just used the same hook the whole way...makes the hat less of a beanie and more straight through the end. On some of the hats I left the brim off completely and just ended with a scalloped edge (below).
Happy Stitching!
Let me know how it goes...
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