The Shelle Beanie

Good morning beautiful people and welcome to day 25. Wowser not long left now!

Today's beanie is named after.. Myself! Its got many components to it, kind of like me. You will need to concentrate for this beanie, and if you are a beginner, I suggest printing the pattern out and highlighting the rounds as you go. On all of my patterns, if you scroll to the bottom of the post you will see a bright green PRINT button, which gives you a print friendly version :)

The Shelle beanie will fit a full term newborn baby. It uses 5 different coloured yarns, and has 18 rounds, all different. I have to say, this one really challenged me. I've been wanting to do something like it for a while now but truth be told, math isn't a strong suit of mine, and I struggled with getting the stitch types and repeats to work. It took me longer then it probably should have, but I think the end result is totally worth it! I love how cheerful this beanie is. I can't wait to see what colour combinations you all use!

You can choose to drop and pick up yarns or end off and rejoin each colour. I used the drop and pick up method, just be sure not to pull them too tight when you swap colours over.

The Shelle Beanie

Sized To Fit:
Newborn/Full Term

Measurements:
11.5cm crown after round 6.
15cm total height
18cm total width across brim

You Will Need:
4mm hook
8ply/DK/Light Worsted Weight yarn in 5 colours.
I used a combination of King Cole Cottonsoft, Moda Vera Marvel and Stylecraft baby

Key = A - White
           B - Blue
           C - Pink
           D - Green
           E - Purple

Special Stitches:
 DC3TG CLUSTER: yarn over, insert hook, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, insert hook, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two, (3 loops left on hook), yarn over, insert hook, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two, (4 loops on hook), yarn over, pull through all loops.

TRC: Triple Crochet: yarn over twice, insert hook, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two

Picot: ch3, slst into the 3rd ch from hook.

1. With A, dc 12 times into a magic ring, join. (12)

2. With D, ch2, 2dc in the same stitch, skip one stitch, *3dc in the next stitch, skip 1 stitch*, repeat around, join. (18)

3. With C, ch1, sc in the next stitch, *2sc in the next stitch, sc in the next 2 stitches*, repeat around, join. (24)

4. With A, ch5 (counts as sc + ch4), *skip 1 stitch, sc in the next stitch, ch4*, repeat around, ending with a slst to the first ch on the ch5. (12 ch spaces, 12 sc's)

5. With E, slst into the ch4 space, (ch3, 1dc, ch2, 2dc) in the ch4 space, (2dc, ch2, 2dc) in each remaining ch4 space around, join. (48)

6. With C, ch2, hdc in the next stitch *hdc in the ch2 space, hdc in the next 4 stitches*, repeat around, join. (60)

7. With D, ch2 (counts as sc + ch1),  *skip one stitch, sc in the next stitch, ch1*, repeat around, join to the first chain. (60, including chains)

8. With E, slst into the first ch1 space, ch3 (counts as hdc and ch1), *skip one stitch, hdc in the next ch1 space, ch1*, repeat around, join to the 2nd chain of the ch3. (60)

9. With D, slst into the first ch1 space,  ch2 (counts as sc + ch1),  *skip one stitch, sc in the next stitch, ch1*, repeat around, join to the first chain. (60)

10. With A, ch1, hdc in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch, hdc in the next stitch, sc in the next stitch, *sc in the next stitch, hdc in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch, hdc in the next stitch, sc in the next stitch*, repeat around, join.

11. With B, ch1, sc in the back loops only of each stitch around, join.

12. With B, ch1, dc in the next stitch, trc in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch, sc in the next stitch, *sc in the next stitch,  dc in the next stitch, trc in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch, sc in the next stitch*

13. With A, ch3, hdc in the next stitch, sc in the next stitch, hdc in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch, *dc in the next stitch, hdc in the next stitch, sc in the next stitch, hdc in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch*, repeat around, join.

14. With C, ch4, dc in the same stitch, skip 2 stitches, *(dc, ch1, dc) in the next stitch, skip 2 stitches*, repeat around, join to the 3rd chain of the ch4.

15. With E, slst into the ch1 space, ch2, dc2tg cluster (like the dc3tg, but with one less stitch), ch2, *dc3tg cluster in the next ch1 space, ch2*, repeat around, join.

16. With D, ch1, sc in each stitch and chain around, join. (60)

17. With B, ch2, hdc in each stitch around, join.

18. With A, ch4, slst into the 3rd ch from hook, *skip 1 stitch, sc in the next stitch, picot*, repeat around, join to the 1st ch,

End off, weave in all tails.

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