Double Yarn Toddler Hat

So I've tried everything I know to get this picture to rotate and can't figure it out! My apologies for the sideways picture! I made this hat this afternoon...it's quick, easy and oh-so cute!! It'll be great for our cold midwest weather that is quickly approaching! I'm very excited to share this new pattern with everyone and hope you enjoy it too!! 

Supplies:
Two coordinating colors of worsted weight yarn (I used the I Love Cotton brand)

J hook

Yarn needle (for weaving ends in)

Abbreviations:
Ch – chain

Hdc – half double crochet
Dc – double crochet

Instructions:

Round 1: Using both colors together, Magic Ring, ch 2. 10 hdc inside ring.  Pull ring tight.  Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 2: Ch 2, 1 hdc in same stitch, then *1 hdc in next stitch, 2 hdc in the next stitch*. Repeat from * around. Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 3: Ch 2, 1 hdc in same stitch, then *1 hdc in next 2 stitches, 2 hdc in the next stitch*. Repeat from * around. Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 4: Ch 2, 1 hdc in same stitch, then *1 hdc in next 3 stitches, 2 hdc in the next stitch*. Repeat from * around. Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 5: Ch 2, 1 hdc in same stitch, then *1 hdc in next 4 stitches, 2 hdc in the next stitch*. Repeat from * around. Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 6: Ch 2, 1 hdc in same stitch, then *1 hdc in next 5 stitches, 2 hdc in the next stitch*. Repeat from * around. Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 7-12: Ch 2, 1 hdc in each stitch. Join to the top ch of ch 2.
Round 13: Take 1 color (I used the lighter color first), Ch 3, 1 dc in each stitch around. Join to the top ch of ch 3. Fasten off and weave in ends
Round 14: Take second color. Ch 2, 1 hdc in each stitch around. Join to the top of ch 2. Fasten off and weave in ends.

This hat could easily be made bigger or smaller by cutting out rows 3-5 (depending on what size you would like) or adding a few more increase rows after round 6.

Hope you enjoy this hat! I'd love to hear what you think or see pictures of what you made with this pattern!!

Happy Hooking,

Libby

© 2011 Libby Burns, all rights reserved. You may sell items made with this pattern, but if you sell them online, you must link to this pattern. You may not sell this pattern or claim it as your own.  You may publish or post a link to this pattern, but you may not publish or post this pattern in whole or in part.


 

Free Pattern: Chunky Yarn Hat- newborn

Alright folks...here we go! Here is my first free pattern. YAY!! I have seen all sorts of these thick yarn hats on Etsy and love them...just couldn't figure out how to make them! Then one day I decided to just start hooking and figure it out. So here it is! I love how thick and chunky it looks...happy hooking!

Chunky Yarn Hat

Supplies:

Chunky Yarn (At least Medium, 4-5 weight...I used Lion Brand Nature's Choice yarn)

Size J/10 Hook (6.00mm)

Abbreviations:
Ch - chain
Dc - double crochet

Fpdc- front post double stich

Instructions for Newborn:

Round 1: Magic Ring, ch 2. 6 dc inside of ring.  Pull ring tight.  Join with sl st to top ch of ch 2.
Round 2: Ch 2. Dc in same stitch.  2 dc in each dc around.  Join with sl st to top ch of ch 2.
Round 3: Ch 2. Dc in same stitch  *2 dc in next dc, dc in next dc.  Repeat from * around.  Join with sl st to top ch of ch 2.

Round 4-5: Ch 2. Dc in each dc around. Join with sl st to top ch of ch 2.

Round 6: Ch 2.* Fpdc in first dc. Dc in next dc.* Repeat from * around. Join with sl st to top ch of ch 2. Fasten off and weave in ends.

Flip hat inside out.

And here's my little sweetie pie in her chunky yarn hat! (Sorry the pic is a bit blurry...cell phone camera!)

Why hello there!

Hello World! After many months of contemplating this gig, I decided it was a risk worth taking...I mean, come on, it's not like it can harm anything! It's crocheting...no risk involved!

Yes, I am a hooker...haha. So there's a little bit of background to this story of how I became a hooker. It all started with this wee little miracle. My daughter, K, started this whole adventure. And now you're all wondering how someone who has a new baby has the time to come up with a new hobby...well 28 weeks into my pregnancy, she made a threat to come into this world. As a former NICU nurse, this scared the daylights out of me. This little stinker landed me in the hospital...for 4 weeks!! Needless to say, after three days of watching movies, reading books, doing suduko, updating our personal blog, making a new playlist on iTunes, browsing through at least 15 magazines (all in 3 days, remember) I decided I needed to figure out something else to do or I was going to go stir crazy and this baby would come sooner or later! Not wanting to deliver a baby that early, I started coming up with ideas of what I could do.

Scrapbooking: too many supplies to haul to the hospital

Writing: write what?!? a novel...give me a break!

Meditating: hard to do with frequent interruptions in the hospital

Reading: already tried that...couldn't keep myself in a book 18 hours a day

Knitting: I've heard it's somewhat unforgiving and I didn't need anything that could cause frustration (frusration = stress = more conractions)

Which leaves me with crocheting. All I could think of is the crazy mom who has her projects with her...football games, choir concerts, road trips...dorky! Well, I weighed the pros and cons of all of my options and decided crocheting would be the best. So I called my sister-in-law and asked her to stop and get some yarn and a hook.

After watching almost all of the Art of Crocheting by Theresa (http://crochet-mania.blogspot.com/p/index-of-patterns.html) videos on youtube, I was somewhat getting it...but not really! Then as luck would have it, one of my night nurses knew how to crochet and showed me how! So after calling her a few times when I got stuck, it started to click. And so my hooking adventure began!! My doctors would laugh when they came to round and would always go over to my collection and see what was new.

I think the funniest part was when I actually had my daughter and was up on the post-partum floor. I put one of the hats I made on my daughter and was taking pictures. My nurse came in and asked where I got the hat. I told her I made it and she immediately said, "Oh, are you the mom that was on high risk OB that learned how to crochet during your stay?" Who would have thought, 10 weeks later, on a completely different floor, I had been talked about! Ha ha!!

So because I got started on free patterns, I thought I would start a blog of my own to pass along the new patterns I have created on my own.

Oh yeah...my blog name...of course it has a story  behind it! Since I started learning how to do this when I was in the hospital, I felt it was appropriate to use my room number somehow...hence the 3507. KJ are my daughter's initials...she's the reason I got started with this new hobby, so I felt it was important to include her somehow. And inspirations...well, if it wasn't for a high risk pregnancy, hospitalization and lots of motivation...this wouldn't have happened. So I came up with KJ 3507 Inspirations...have fun and happy hooking!