Crochet warm hat, instruction for beginners

Winter in Russia is the time for warm knitwear. However, knitwear in stores is unreasonably expensive, and the colors with the drawings do not differ in originality, and some people are not satisfied with the quality. Maybe there is a desire to make a stylish and unique gift for a loved one with your own hands?

Skill caps

Knitting such a part of the wardrobe as a warm crochet hat for women, men and children is accessible even to beginners; this is a fairly simple piece of clothing, the errors in knitting which are not so noticeable. The abundance of various drawings represents wide open spaces for creativity and creation of a truly unique thing. In addition, sections that did not work out very well can always be dissolved and bandaged.

Below we will look at how to create simple warm crocheted hats, and at the end of the article will be presented patterns of an openwork hat and a chic beret. Knitting only differs in that there is an option with a seam across the entire width. While a knitted hat is warm crochet often without seams. A complex solution is also possible when the front side of the product is crocheted with a florid pattern, and the inside is made with knitting needles, for additional warming, and sometimes because of the elastic, to better fix the cap on the head.

Step One: Planning

At this stage, you should decide on the color of the future hat, size, yarn and tool, that is, a hook. To determine the dimensions, you can use the sample table below, or measure yourself.

Knitted things tend to stretch significantly, so if you plan to surprise someone, do the average size by eye. For a child, the size can be taken with a small margin, but not too much, the person’s head grows much more slowly than everything else.

Step Two: Material Selection

Yarn does not matter for experienced needlewomen. It all depends on the personal preferences of the craftswoman and the person to whom the hat is designed, made crochet. However, beginners should choose a more elastic yarn to fill their hand. Strive for the average parameters of the thread, so it will be easier for you later to get used to any changes.

A good yarn for a knitted hat is four-layer of smooth wool or acrylic. The hat is warm, crocheted, it does not require a lot of threads, enough 50 g of medium size for one layer. Remember that thick yarn will require a little more material, and vice versa.

Remember that natural material tends to sit slightly after washing, make a mandatory adjustment in size when using wool or cotton.

Step Three: Tool Selection

It is better to choose a hook by hand. If you are just starting to knit, you need to decide how you will hold the tool in your fingers: like a knife when cutting eyes from potatoes or like a writing pen. In any case, when buying, turn the tool in your fingers, try to imagine the knitting process. For such a yarn, as previously proposed, an aluminum hook of 4.5-5 mm is suitable. For beginners, this size will allow better control of the yarn thread and more clearly see the intermediate results of the work. For a denser knitting, it is better to take a 3-4 mm hook, but it will be difficult for a beginner to keep even rows without jerking (the fabric can “go”).

Fourth step: start knitting with a simple column

The preparation is over, we know what and how to knit, we have material and tools. It's time to get to work. For stuffing hands, the first hat is warm crochet is done with an exceptionally simple column. A column with 1 double crochet fits simply, in our case, 5 initial loops are connected and knitted 3 lifting loops. From the last loop we throw on the hook 1 revolution of the working thread and through the initial ring we pull out another 1 loop of the working thread. Next, we get the 4th loop of the working thread, stretch it through 2 in a row and take it out. There are 2 loops left on the hook, we get the 3rd from the working thread and stretch through the first 2. Done!

It is better to start knitting from the top of the cap, so it will be easier to calculate the rounding and control the size. In addition, you don’t have to knit a sample and calculate the number of loops needed for the cap fabric, and calculate the number of additional ones when knitting the tops. Loops can be added to the eye, and the size can be monitored by measuring the circumference of each row with a centimeter tape.

Step Five: Loop calculation, transition to sidewall and shutdown

How many loops to add in each row? With the initial row of air loops and the first row of simple columns, it is more or less clear, 5 loops for the ring, 3 loops for lifting and 10 columns to close the first row. Next, you can apply by eye the usual school geometry: the diameters of the circles relate to each other in the same way as the circles themselves.

For the diameter of the first row, you can take 2.5 columns (half a column for the initial loops), then in each next row the diameter will be 2 more. In each row, you need to add 8 columns (2 * 10 / 2.5), distributing them around the entire circumference so that the cap does not bulge on one side. For example, we got 18 columns in the second row, which means we knit 2 columns in each loop of the first row, except for the 3rd and 8th, where there will be 1 column.

Approaching the desired size, the addition can be reduced to 4 or 2 loops to match the circumference of the head, and then knit without additions for the entire remaining planned length. The last row is usually performed in a half-column, this is when a loop stretched through the bottom row is immediately passed into the loop on the hook.

Schemes for Experienced

You can’t always stay at the beginning of the path, in knitting it is worth experimenting, trying something new. Knitting an openwork female hat for autumn / spring seems a lot more difficult, but thanks to the pattern you will not get confused in loops and columns.

Young fashionistas may be interested in a winter beret crocheted. Do not forget to choose the right thickness of yarn and hook.

Turn your free time into beautiful, convenient, and most importantly, useful things, these skills, obviously, will never become obsolete. Crochet various warm hats, patterns for which can be found in special magazines, and some of them are presented above.