Crochet pumpkin hat for toddlers, small children

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Skill Level:

Intermediate

Materials Needed:

Medium worsted weight/category yarn less than 100 gm

5.5 mm crochet hook for the hat

5 mm hook for the stalk and leaf

Yarn needle

Measuring tape

Size (with stretch):

Fits a child with head circumference of about 19 to 21 inches, length is 7.5 inches

Stitches/Abbreviations Used:

[ ] - Repeat instruction within parenthesis as a set as many times as directed

st/sts - stitch/stitches

sl st - slip stitch

sc - single crochet

dc - double crochet

hdc - half double crochet

fpdc - front post double crochet

Note:

• The pattern is written in standard US terms
• Ch 1 at the beginning of each round does not count as a stitch

WATCH THE VIDEO TUTORIAL HERE

Instruction

Ch 4, join the last ch with a sl st to the 1^st ch to form a ring.

Round 1: Ch 1, 11 dc into ring. Join with a sl st to 1^st dc. (11 sts)

Round 2:  Ch 1, repeat [dc, fpdc] in each st around times. Join. (22 sts)

Round 3: Ch 1, repeat [2 dc in dc, fpdc in fpdc] around. Join, (33 sts)

Round 4: Ch 1, repeat [dc in next dc, 2 dc in next dc, fpdc in fpdc] around. Join, (44 sts)

 Round 5: Ch 1, repeat [dc in next 2 dc, 2 dc in next dc, fpdc in fpdc] around. Join, (55 sts)

Round 6: Ch 1, repeat [dc in each dc, fpdc in each fpdc] around. Join, (55 sts)

Repeat round 6 until the hat measures approximately 1.25 to 1.5 inches less than the desired length. 

Band

Round 1: Ch 1, hdc in each st around. Join.

Round 2 and 3: Ch 1, hdc in the back loop of each st around. Join. (There are 3 loops in each hdc st, 2 at the top and 1 at the back. Skip the 2 loops at top and work only into the back loop of each st)

Round 4: Ch 1, sc in the back loop of each st around. Join. Fasten off.

Stalk

Using brown and a smaller hook, make 5 ch, join the last ch with a sl st to the 1^st ch to form a ring.
Round 1: Ch 1, sc in each ch around. Join with a sl st to the 1^st sc.
Round 2 to 5: Ch 1, sc in each st around. Join.
Round 6: Repeat [sc, ch 4, sc] in each st around. Join with a sl st to 1^st sc and fasten off.
 

Leaf

Using green ch 10, sc in 2^nd ch from hook, sc in next 7 ch, 3 sc in the last ch, sc in 5 ch on the other side, ch 2, turn, sc in 6 sts, 3 sc in next st, sc in 6 sts, ch 2, turn, sc in 7 sts, sl st in next st.  Fasten off and weave in the ends.
 

Vine

Using green ch 25, sc in 2^nd ch from hook, sc in next 2 ch, 3 sc in each ch across. Fasten off.
 
Finishing
Sew the leaf, vine and stalk to the top of the hat. Weave in all the loose ends of yarn.
 

 

Flower scarf

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Welcome to all my new friends and thanks everyone for being here and leaving your sweet comments for me to cherish. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I finished writing a couple of new patterns for the shops and one is this lovely scarf made of ruffled flowers. I chose lime green and light brown for the scarf because I didn't want it to be too flowery and at the same time not too sober. The pattern is available here, here and here.

The other pattern is for a monkey hat which will be available shortly.

Crochet headband - new pattern, and few other things

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This textured headband with a rose is the latest pattern in my shop. I love this stitch. It gives a wonderful texture and I have used  it in a hat pattern too.

You can buy these patterns from here, here and here. Now I am working on a beanie for my son using the same stitch.

My last post was over a month ago. I am seriously lacking motivation generally. Tips on how to keep yourself motivated to blog would be greatly appreciated, but today there is a very good reason why I am excited.

As you might know my tutorial post on the granny ripple pattern is my most popular one so far. Now allfreecrochetafganpatterns.com has released an ebook on how to crochet ripple afgans for free download containing 7 free ripple afgan patterns and mine in one of them. You can download the ebook from the link given below
http://www.allfreecrochetafghanpatterns.com/Ripple/How-To-Crochet-a-Ripple-Crochet-Afghan-7-Free-Crochet-Patterns-eBook
There are plenty of free crochet afgan patterns in their wonderful site and you can check them out.

There is also a sad story. Fluffy, one of our bunnies, was killed by a stray cat who managed to sneak into our house when we were out. Poor Fluffy, she was the friendliest one and such a darling.

Two cute little bunnies have taken the place of Fluffy now.

Ninja and Poppy, but I really cannot differentiate between Ninja and Poppy. They both look so alike.

You will see more cute bunny pics in future.

Monsters and bunnies

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Welcome to all my new friends and thanks a lot for all your comments in my previous posts. I visited all of your blogs but wasn't able to leave comments in some, the comments just didn't appear even after trying a few times. Sorry about that.

First let me show you the monsters. These are the new patterns in my shops. I made the blue monster first.

Then I felt it would be more interesting if the eyes pop out. So I made the green monster/alien.

Then I wanted a girly monster, so made this pink one.

Right now you can find these patterns in my Etsy shop. I will make them available soon in my Craftsy shop too.

We have 2 new members in our family...

...Fluffy and Tuffy

 

They are soooo cute, aren't they?