Today, knitting has become so popular that not only women, but many men are well versed in handicrafts. Depending on their preferences, they order or buy ready-made sweaters, hats, pullovers, scarves and many other things.
Eccentricity versus classic
Along with classic, simple wardrobe items, craftswomen are increasingly receiving orders for various non-standard products. For example, knitted crowns for babies, mittens in the form of hedgehogs, sweaters with the image of deers, as well as adult and children's animal hats crocheted. These accessories are a stylized head of some real or fictional animal.
Crocheted animal hat can be equipped with eyes and nose. Some models provide only an opening instead of a muzzle, so the person who put on the hat transforms into the selected beast.
As prototypes, the craftswomen choose the most diverse representatives of the animal world: foxes, wolves, dinosaurs, giraffes, cockerels, raccoons, rams, as well as all kinds of cartoon or fictional monsters. Below are some interesting animal hats and recommendations regarding the manufacturing process.
What yarn to choose
To get a durable and warm crochet animal hat, you need to choose the right materials. First of all, the yarn should be high in wool: at least 50%. Otherwise, the crochet beanie will be beautiful, but non-functional. Do not use a fully acrylic thread, as synthetic products can be hot, but they will not give real heat.
If we are talking about knitting for children, then we need to pay close attention not only to the percentage of wool in the yarn, but also to the origin of the raw material. Sheep wool can be stiff and prickly. Some manufacturers have learned how to handle the thread very well and achieve that it becomes completely soft. However, this is the exception rather than the rule.
If you need a crochet animal beanie, the best choice is merino wool. This yarn around the world is recognized as the softest and highest quality.
Nowhere easier
The photograph below shows a bonnet that even the greenest beginner can tie.
In fact, this is a small animal crochet for boys, which is a rectangular canvas sewn in a certain order. It should be noted that such an accessory is quite suitable for a Halloween costume or a New Year's masquerade. In this case, instead of wool, you can use cotton.
The rectangle is knitted in any direction: from bottom to top, from the back of the head to the face or vice versa. The canvas is sewn as follows: on the back and on the crown (unless there is a fold line). Like all hoods, such a beanie should be sewn from the chin to the bottom edge. This is done in order to protect the neck from wind and frost.
Home Dinosaur Decor
Decorating a rectangular beast hat is easy: just knit a few triangles and sew along the seam from the back of the head to the crown. Difficulties can arise with the first element, since the size will have to be selected empirically: knit, try on and bandage. However, all other triangles will already be made according to the developed template.
To knit a triangular canvas, you need to cut one column at the beginning and at the end of the row in every second row.
Crochet animals look good, the description of which involves the use of materials such as genuine and artificial leather, suede, thick fabric (jeans, tarpaulin), fur. If there are suitable shreds, the dinosaur comb can be made of leather or suede. The main condition is sufficient rigidity of the material.
Universal animal hat
As a rule, most of the unique knitted hats are created by talented (and moderately eccentric) designers who are in no hurry to give out patterns for free and make life easier for those who want to duplicate their creation.
You can bring your favorite model to life by mastering basic knitting skills and understanding how classic hats are formed. Next, the beast hat will be considered, the scheme of which is an improved semicircular hat.
For its manufacture, you can use yarn of any thickness. The diagram shows the calculation for double crochet (CCH). The main principle is that 12 CCHs are knitted in the first row, and in each subsequent additions are also made at 12 points.
If the craftswoman wants to get a denser canvas, she should use columns without a crochet (RLS). Here, the algorithm of work will be slightly different: the first row is 6 sc, and the addition of new elements, respectively, at six points.
Features of work
In order for the bottom of the cap to be formed correctly, you must adhere to the above description. Places for adding columns can be marked with plastic markers. When the diameter of the bottom is 1-2 cm narrower than required, you need to knit one row without additions. In the next row, follow the basic instruction (introduce new elements at 6 or 12 points), then repeat the series again without additions and the expanding series. Now you can continue to work without tying out new columns.
The indicated sequence (alternating rows) is necessary in order for the cap to have smooth outlines. Otherwise, if, after intensive expansion, we proceed to knitting an even web, an ugly sharp transition may form.
If the usual patterns and patterns have already become boring and bored, you can apply the "bushes" pattern. He will give the product a slight effect of lace.
The part of the cap that will cover the ears can be made denser by applying, for example, single crochet posts.
Decor Options
To make the usual hat become the bestial muzzle, several techniques are used:
- At the stage of selecting the material, preference is given to booklet or simply very fluffy yarn of the corresponding color.
- Be sure to knit "ears".
- They make applications in the form of eyes and a nose.
- Complement the image with characteristic and recognizable features (mustache, horns, teeth).
Moreover, the listed elements may have a naturalistic or exclusively decorative appearance. The photo below shows an interesting and unusual animal hat in the form of a sheep.
For its manufacture, a technique such as a “magnificent column” was used. It is performed in almost the same way as the "bush", while the columns have not only a common base, but also a top. After each row of lush columns, crochet columns are crocheted.
After the base of the beanie is ready (semicircular hat), knit the details to which the ties will be sewn later. Then proceed to the manufacture of decor. Here it is quite possible to limit oneself to sheep’s ears, but especially diligent craftswomen can add a muzzle.
How to tie ears
Each decorative ear consists of two parts: external and internal. The first one will be slightly larger and should be knitted from the main color yarn. The second, respectively, is smaller and it needs material in a contrasting color. The algorithm for manufacturing a large part:
- Run a chain of 7 air loops (VP).
- Knit in each of them according to the sc.
- In the 8th loop, perform 3 sc.
- From the back of the chain also knit 7 sc.
- At the end of the part, knit 3 sc in one loop of the base.
Further, all the rows will be circular: in the beginning you should make an air loop, and in the end - the connecting column.
Two elements should be knitted into each loop of the base: either RLS or CCH. For the formation of a narrow edge, it is necessary to use RLS, and when moving to the manufacture of the wide side, you can not do without higher CCH.
The size of the parts is regulated by performing one or another number of rows. For example, a small eye can be connected from two, and a large eye from three rows. If three levels of CCH is too much, the last row is performed by RLS. Parts that are tied with threads of different thicknesses will have a different size: thin yarn is suitable for making a small ear, and thick yarn is for a large one. In this case, the number of rows and loops in the elements will be the same.
Ready ears are combined as shown in the photo and stitched.
Then they are folded, the fold is fixed and sewn to the product.
This is what should result in the end.
For the manufacture of applications in the form of a sheep's face, you will need a dense fabric, buttons and threads.
Cut elements can be sewn onto a hat or glued with a gun.
At this stage, the knitting of the animal hat is completed. Crochet patterns proposed above can be embodied in all details or used as the basis for knitting experiments.
Monster Caps
Many mothers are happy to dress their children in bright and fantastic hats that look like the heads of monsters.
To create such crochet animals, diagrams and descriptions are optional. You can attach cut or knitted details to almost any base. The simplest to manufacture is the one-eyed monster. The eye is given either a round or elongated shape and complemented with eyelashes, teeth, horns, hands, tail and other elements.