Freshman Crocheted Hat

By Lady Butterfly

NOTES:


1. Hat is worked back and forth in one piece.
2. Completed piece is sewed together to make a tube, then one end of the tube is gathered to make the top of the Hat.

Ingredients

• Vanna's Choice Yarn:
• MATERIALS
• 860-109 Lion Brand
• Colonial Blue
• 1 Ball
• Lion Brand Crochet Hook -
• Size J-10 (6 mm)
• Lion Brand Large-Eye
• Blunt Needles (Set of 6)
• Vanna's Choice® (Article #860). 100%
• Premium Acrylic
• 400 , 401, 403: 92% Acrylic, 8% Rayon
• 402 : 96% Acrylic, 4% Rayon; package
• size: Solids: 3.5 oz (100 g), 170 yards
• (156 m)
• Prints, Tweeds, & Heathers: 3 ozs (85
• g) , 145 yards (133 meters)
• Twists: 2.5 oz (70 g), 121 yards (111
• meters)
• GAUGE:

Details

Adapted from lionbrand.com

Preparation

Step 1

HAT
Leaving a long yarn tail, ch 61.
Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across – you will have 60 sc at the end of this row.
Row 2: Ch 1, turn, sc in each st across.
Repeat Row 2 until piece measures about 10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm) from beg.
Fasten off, leaving a long yarn tail.

FINISHING
Thread cast-on tail into blunt needle and sew side edges of piece together to make a tube.
Thread yarn tail from bound-off edge into blunt needle, then sew in and out through sts of last row. Pull to gather top of hat and knot securely.
Weave in ends.