How to Crochet a Stylish Red Hat

Materials Needed

You'll need:

• 2 skeins of red yarn (30% wool, 70% polyacryl; 100m/100g);
• Crochet hook 7.

Instructions

Total Height: 34 cm

Head Height: 21 cm

Fold: 8 cm

The crown is 5 cm higher than the head.

For these measurements, you'll need 76 rows (or 76/2 = 38 cables, as the pattern repeat is 2 rows) and 56 sts.

Start working with the wrong side row. Seam will go along one side of the hat, making it more comfortable to sew the crown.

Make 57 chain sts, 56 double crochets through back arches, starting from the 2nd st. This is the wrong side row of the 1st cable.

Turn your work and start making the next cable. Crocheting of all the next rows is always through back half-sts. Start each row with a chain st increase, which isn't counted. Don't strengthen it.

When you come to making the third cable, don't crochet the last 2 sts of the right-side row, make an increase st, and crochet the wrong side row.

When you come to crocheting the central part or when you need to add sts after crocheting the central part, the principle of work is the same: catch the side of the previous cable, then back loop of the 1st unfinished st (from the previous cable), and catching the working yarn, draw through all the sts on the crochet hook. Make the second slip st as usual.

When your hat is ready, the "tails" of the beginning and end should be from the right side of the hat. In order to make a thin seam, make it with half the yarn thread.

Then, fold the hat right-side inside. Sew with double crochets, catching both sides of the arch from one side and only the back part from the other side.