Monday, April 21, 2014

Basic Guys Caps - Thin n Thick Stripes


Good morning lovlies,

Angels for the Forgotten's annual craft challenge has kicked off again this year. I've set myself some personal goals, including making 100 hats. I'm trying for a good range of male and female styles and some unisex too, but I'm really having a hard time finding guys hats I like the looks of. So I'm just winging it! Of course winging it means you guys get some more patterns woo!

Today's pattern is a basic enough hat for anyone to make, and it is a great stash buster too, especially if like me you hoard all the little balls that could make a few stripes! Id like to say sorry for the photo too, its been raining and overcast here all day and I can't seem to get a nicely lit pic. Ahh well, we're here for the pattern right, not the pics :D


This hat fits my 11yr old girl, and my partner, so I'm going to say preteen/teen/adult for the size, its got a bit of stretch to it.

You will need:
DK weight yarn in a main colour, and 2 contrasting colours for the stripes. For this pattern, Grey is colour A, brown is colour B and green is colour C
5mm hook.

With colour A
1: ch2, dc 10 times into the 1st chain, join to 1st dc.
2: ch3, 2dc in each stitch around, join
3: ch3, *2dc in the first stitch, dc in the next stitch* Repeat around, join.
4: ch3, *2dc in the first stitch, dc in the next 2 stitches* Repeat around, join.
5: ch3, *2dc in the first stitch, dc in the next 3 stitches* Repeat around, join.
6: ch3, *2dc in the first stitch, dc in the next 4 stitches* Repeat around, join.
7-8: ch3, dc in each stitch around, join.
9: With colour B, ch2, hdc in each stitch around, join.
10: With colour C, ch3, dc in each stitch around, join.
11: With colour B, ch2, hdc in each stitch around, join.
12: With colour A, ch3, dc in each stitch around, join.
13-16: Repeat rows 9-12 once more
17: ch1, sc in each stitch around, join.

End off here and weave in all tails.

If you are after a slightly slouchier hat, repeat rows 9-12 for a third time, and for a super slouchy hat repeat for a forth.

2 comments:

  1. Hi, what does dk mean?

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    1. Double Knit. It can also be referred to as 8ply or light worsted weight depending on your location :)

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