After my exploration into the world of hats last weekend I found myself totally addicted.  I cranked out 5 other hats this week.  I tried making hats back in 2005 when I first started teaching myself crochet but I didn’t get very far.  I first tried going around in just a circle but ended up with a strange triangular funnel shape which I turned into a toy mouse.  I believe that the mouse has since ‘died’ after a couple years of playtime.  Last summer a friend gave me a crochet book from which I learned how to crochet a coaster which was successful!  I then tried a hat from the same book but it was a strange hat-like disc too large and too shallow to actually function as a hat, or anything else for that matter.  I was again defeated by hats.  Between then and now I made a baby hat successfully so I was grasping something.  I’m glad my crochet knowledge and understanding has grown enough to make sense of patterns without disastrous results.

The Week of Hats

  • Monday: Maroon Divine Hat for myself with yarn received from a fellow Freecycler (so I have no idea what it was exactly aside from soft).
  • Tuesday: Easy Double Crochet hat with left over fuzzy orange yarn.  Pulled out a fore mentioned pink hat-like disc and made my own variation of Easy Double Crochet hat with fpdc & bpdc.
  • Wednesday: Attempted 2 hats in red, neither a success.  Started an Easy Double Crochet Hat in red.
  • Thursday: Finished Easy Double Crochet hat in red with variation of fpdc.  Started Crochet Head Hugger.
  • Friday: Finished Crochet Head Hugger with variation of one puff stitch instead of one double crochet to add more fullness to the hat.

Hat Summary(Sorry the image is so small, I’m having issues with the image display squishing the picture completely)

I’m not sure yet what’s next in my crochet adventures.  I was speaking with my husband and he said it sounds like I need to work on another blanket.  LOL.  I will donate most of these hats to the Mitten Trees at school.  I looked up crochet mitten patterns but have decided against that.  I don’t know yet if I’ll make any scarves, maybe.  I think I want to make a nice hat for my sister in Portland, OR.  She moved there from Atlanta, Georgia so she might need a couple cute hats.

I received a lot of compliments at work on my maroon Divine hat.  It matches wonderfully with my red scarf, which at least 2 people noticed and complimented.  You could nearly hear another person’s jaw hit the floor when I told them that I made the hat.  This is what I was looking for when I searched for crochet hat patterns.  I wanted something that when done right didn’t look like a home made hat (kind of like the pink and red hats I made this week).  For the maroon hat I used a smaller hook to get a tighter feel and less holes; it worked out well.

Christmas will be arriving shortly in our home so I don’t know how much crochet will be done this weekend.