Christmas Hat Crochet Tutorial (English)

Hi Blogmonsters,

today its me again, Clawdeen.

Today I am showing you a pic of my hometown, Olpe. In the background you see a part of the medieval town wall, the round tower is the Angels Tower, and the church above the St. Martins Church.

And now I have the first christmas special for you:

How to crochet a christmas hat.

Its this one:

But if you don't want to crochet it and instead win Operetta with hat, dress and boots, you still have a chance, but it ends next friday.

You can win her here:

http://calaminthe.blogspot.de/2014/11/christmas-giveaway.html

But now to the tutorial.

You need:

- red yarn and a rest white yarn. We use cheap acrylic yarns for Chrochethook size 4 or smaller.

- Hook Size 3,5 or 4

- a small white pompom

- white sewing cotton

- sewing needle, bigger wool needle to sew up and scissors to cut off the yarns

Skills you need:

- Crochet chains

- single crochet (basic crochet stitch)

- sewing up

Of course you start with a loop on you hook. Use the white yarn first.

I hope you don't mind the very old sagging sofa as background.

First you crochet a loop of chains, until you have like 25 or 30.

As soon as you know how many chains you need, you close the row by stitching into the first loop again.

You have enough, if the chains fit around the head of your doll .

It should then look like this.

Now you can begin to crochet a row of single crochet.

When finished the first row, cut off the whit yarn, leaving enough to sew it up later. Now you can begin using the red yarn. 

Make a loop and then just go on with single crochet stitches.

Make 4 rows of red, then it should look like this.

Try it on to your doll. You have enough rows if you don't see much of the back of the dolls head from the profile.

Now you go on like this:

Do a HALF row of single crochet, until you are at the FRONT of your hat.

Then pass over one single loop like shown above.

Go on with single crochet stitches as before.

From now on, you just pass over one loop at the front of the hat in EACH row.

After doing some rows you can see that the hat begins to get smaller at the front.

Go on this way, and soon you have your nearly finished christmas hat, like you see it on the pic. 

Sorry the pic is a little bit blurry, but I am sure its good enough that you can see what it should look like now.

Cut the yarn and knot now the top up like shown on the picture above.

Before sewing it up, there is one thing that needs to be done also:

Fix the top of the hat to the side.

You need the wool needle and a piece of the red yarn.

Stitch from inside the hat at one side to outside, like shown in the pic above.

Then, stitch in and out again near the top, like shown.

Stitch once more into the bottom part, very close the stitch you came out first.

Then, from inside, pull the top until it is next to the bottom and knot it. If you don't do this, the top of the hat looks like the hat of a garden gnome.

But if you made everything right, your hat now should look like this.

Now sew up everything.

The last thing you have to do is to sew a white little pompom to the top of the hat with sewing cotton, and your christmas hat is finished.

Thats all for today.

I really would be happy about some feedback, so please comment.

I hope you have fun trying out how to chrochet this hat.

Of course I would also be happy to get photos of your own finished hats, if you like.

And if you want, I then share them here if you want me to.

Don't forget that Operetta still wants a new home.

Bye for today

xxx Clawdeen! xxx