Beginner Hat Crochet

Crochet hats are great to wear in all seasons. You have landed to a right place if you are looking for how to crochet a hat or a crochet hat pattern or may be how to crochet hat directions.

Here’s a beginner crochet hat pattern like all other free crochet hat patterns that you can find in various other websites. So here’s a basic pattern for a hat, good for beginners to get started with.

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

Two yarn balls almost 4oz, crochet hook, small scissors, yarn needle.

1. Starting with the center top of the hat, chain 5. Join the chain with a slip stitch so that you have a ring. Chain 2 and count this as first slip stitch on first row.

2. 1st row: Work 9 half double crochet in the ring (or you can use a single or double crochet slip stitch depending on the yarn and what effect you want to achieve). Join last slip stitch to first with a slip stitch and chain 2 which makes the first stitch of row 2.(chain 2 will be 1st stitch on each row).

3. 2nd row: Work one stitch in same slip stitch as joining slip stitch, then 2 slip stitch in each slip stitch around. Join to top of chain 2. (End all rows by joining to the top of chain 2)

4. 3rd row: Chain 2, one slip stitch in fir slip stitch slip stitch, two slip stitches in the next slip stitch (increase by one slip stitch every other slip stitch. Do this all the way around). Join as in row 1.

5. 4th row: Chain 2, crochet around making 2 slip stitches in every 3rd slip stitch (increase made), one slip stitch in the slip stitch in between.

6. 5th row: Chain 2, increase (2 slip stitches) in every 4th slip stitch around.

7. 6th, 7th and 8th rows: Chain 2, increase (2 slip stitches) in every 5th slip stitch around.

8. 9th row: Decrease every 3rd slip stitch by skipping each 3rd slip stitch. Crochet in all others around.

9. 10th and 11th rows: Half double crochet in every slip stitch around.

10. 12th row: Increase in every 5th slip stitch around.

11. 13th and 14th rows: Half double crochet in every slip stitch around.

12. 15th row: Repeat row 9.

13. 16th row: Half double crochet in every slip stitch around.

14. 17th row: Decrease every 5th slip stitch by skipping each 5th slip stitch around. After joining with slip stitch, do not make a chain 2 stitch.

15. 18th row: Shell Border: Make 5 half double crochet in next slip stitch Skip a slip stitch, slip stitch in next slip stitch.*Skip a slip stitch, make 5 half double crochet in next slip stitch, skip a slip stitch, slip stitch in next slip stitch. (Repeat from * till end.) Join; cut yarn; tie off; weave tail into hat so it doesn't show.