Accessories handmade today are in trend. Almost every fashionista has in her arsenal a summer hat, lace mittens or crochet bactus. On a hot summer day, I want to protect myself from the scorching rays of the sun with a beautiful hat with wide brim. Such an accessory will definitely not go unnoticed, and if the hat is made with your own hands, it will be an exclusive thing in a single copy.
Knitting steps
You can crochet a summer hat simply and fairly quickly. The main thing is to understand the principle. The model can be concise, without unnecessary patterns and decorations, made with simple double crochet. And it can be openwork, with a beautiful pattern and color transition, with the addition of additional decorations, ribbons or flowers. In any case, the process of knitting a hat consists of three main points:
- Knotting the bottom (this is a certain circle, top of the hat).
- Knitting tulle (the part covering the head connecting the bottom and the fields of the hat). This is the easiest step. There is no need to add or decrease loops.
- Knitting hat fields. Fields are the most beautiful part. They can be wide or very narrow, at the discretion of the needlewoman.
Bottom
Before you start crocheting a summer hat for women, you need to measure the girth of the head. On average, it will be 55-56 centimeters. This value will be necessary in order to calculate the diameter of the bottom, which must be crocheted for the summer hat. If the head circumference is 55 cm, then the diameter of the bottom will be 17.5 cm. It is calculated simply by the formula: head circumference / 3.14 = diameter of the bottom.
Now about how to tie it. As a scheme for knitting the openwork bottom of the summer female hat with a crochet, you can take the scheme of any napkin. If there is no specific pattern or bottom pattern, then it always fits in according to a certain principle (description in rows):
- Tie one air loop and make 12 columns with a crochet (or without a crochet, if desired) into it.
- This row will double the number of columns. From each existing column in the previous row, you need to knit 2 columns. As a result, there will be 24 of them.
- We alternate: we knit 1 column as it is, 1 double, that is, we knit 2 columns from 1 column of the previous row. The result is 36.
- Now we knit 2 columns as is, 1 double, knitting 2 columns from it. The result will be 48 columns.
- We knit 3 columns as is, 1 double up to 60 columns in a row.
And so on until we reach the desired diameter of the bottom.
Here is one of the possible schemes.
Tula
Now the easiest step in crocheting summer hats. Tula is knitted with simple columns or double crochet without increasing or decreasing the number of loops. You can choose any pattern for the top of a summer hat crocheted, and feel free to use it without changes. The main thing is that this pattern is in harmony with the brim and bottom of the hat. The tulle should be knitted until the required depth of the cap is obtained.
Fields
Fields fit into the extension. This is the most beautiful and interesting part of the summer women's hat crocheted. Here you can dream up, using original patterns, to make the fields wide or narrow, rounded or shuttlecock. The expansion of the canvas is achieved by increasing the number of loops in each next row. They can be increased as much as you want. Wide fields of summer hats are in fashion today.
For little beauties, it’s sometimes not worthwhile to get involved and knit rather voluminous fields, since they will be uncomfortable to look out from under them, and you need to keep your eyesight, and if you really wanted to fashion and the hat fields turned out wide, then you can pin them up with beautiful a brooch or a flower.
Stylish crochet hat
To create this crochet summer hat model, you need to prepare a rather thick beige cotton yarn and a suitable hook size. It could be number 3; 3,5. And some brown lace yarn.
The bottom and tulle are simply knitted with double crochet according to the description above. Fields need to be knitted as follows.
Then you can twist the lace or braid it and tie it around the top of the hat.
Crochet white hat
For this model you will need white cotton yarn and a hook number 3 or 3.5.
Here's an interesting detail - the bottom of the hat. It fits in according to the pattern.
Repeat the last 2 rows of the pattern until the head of the hat reaches the desired depth.
Then you need to tie the hats. To do this, 9 rows are knitted with double crochet, and in each 5 rows with double crochet are evenly added. The edges can be tied either with a crustacean step, or with simple single crochet columns.
Crocheted fishnet hat
For this openwork model you will need cotton yarn of light beige color and a hook No. 3 or 3.5.
The bottom is knitted according to the description given above, and the top and fields - according to the scheme.
When fields are tied, the number of rapports in the pattern increases due to the addition of loops in the rows of double crochets.
The edges of the hats need to be tied up with a shrimp step and a fishing line should be passed through them. The hat can be decorated with a satin ribbon in tone, passing it between the columns of the last row of tulle, or with a ribbon of contrasting color and leave the descending ends.
Conclusion
Crocheted summer hat will always look fresh, interesting and stylish. It can be decorated at your discretion with ribbons, brooches, knitted flowers or fabric flowers. The hat can be tied in any neutral color and, changing accessories, complete it with any summer outfit.
Previously, it was customary to starch panamos and summer hats, but modern models do not provide for such a need. If you want the hat margins to stay flat, you can insert a special fishing line into them.
If it is necessary that the fields are curled upwards, firstly, they need to be knitted as tightly as possible, and secondly, after the required width is reached, several rows should be knitted without adding, and the last row should be reduced by 2-3 columns.
In general, fantasize! The knitting process itself can bring great pleasure, and with the zeal and diligence applied, the result of the work will please not only the craftswoman herself, but also those around her.