Pumpkin Patch Hat Crochet Pattern Tutorial ¦ Baby to Adult Sizes

Hey, this is MJ and in today's tutorial i'm going to be showing you how to crochet our pumpkin patch crochet hat. This hat is worked from the top down beginning with our stem and then the hat is worked in front post double crochet stitches giving us this beautiful ribbed texture and then we're going to finish the hat off with the join as you go ribbed band and then i've added a personalized tag to the front and use some embroidery thread and my yarn needle next we added the little leaf and a vine to the top of the hat so this is our toddler size and in today's tutorial i'll be working on our 6 to 12 month baby size from brickbubble.ca and i just use a little bit of embroidery thread to sew the tag on and i can show you how to do that at the end of the tutorial working with two crochet hook sizes a five millimeter which will be the main area of the hat and then i'll be working with the 4.5 millimeter for crocheting the band i'll be working with my yarn line timeless tones anti-pilling dk weight yarn this is 100 acrylic and i'll be working with the color pumpkin spice and for the stem the vine and the leaf we'll be working with olive grove the yarn is available to purchase through merimaxim.com and .ca and the hooks are available from furls and we'll have the links in the description box below the video so let's get started we're going to begin with the pumpkin stem which is with our olive grove and i'm going to make a magic ring so wrap the yarn around your index finger three times take your five millimeter crochet hook sliding it through all three loops on your finger take the first loop pulling it through and then we'll chain two and for this size hat we are going to begin with 11 double crochet in the ring now i want to mention that when designing hats we like to start out with the number that's going to increase as evenly as possible to our desired finish stitch count this hat i aim to do six stitches between the sizes so i may start the hat with different stitch counts in order to get up to the correct number when we're doing our increase pattern so i know sometimes it can be confusing if let's say a smaller size starts with a larger number but all this does is help us increase to our desired size so don't worry about that just follow along with the pattern and increase to the desired stitches for the size hat you're making and this hat does come in your baby to adult sizes so i'm going to go ahead and finish working 11 double crochet in the ring and then i'll meet you back up to show you how to close the ring okay so once you have your 11 double crochet we're just going to move it out of the way so we can see our loops i'm going to take the tail the tail is only going to pull in one loop okay so this loop has started to pull you then just want to give it a tug and it's going to pull the other loop now you can use any of your methods for doing your magic ring or starting even with a chain to make your circle whatever you're comfortable with but this is just my method and this makes a nice tight circle that won't come loose now we're going to slip stitch in our first double crochet to join chain one then we're going to work a single crochet through the back loop only of every stitch around so when you're looking at your stitch here's your front loop here's your back loop we're just going right down the center of the stitch through the back loop working those single crochet stitches i like to count to make sure i'm on track and we want 11 so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 and then we're going to slip stitch through the back loop only of our first single crochet to join chain one and continue working single crochets through the back loop and i'm going to go ahead and do this for a total of 10 rounds so our first round second round we're on our third round so we want to continue working single crochets through the back loop for a total of 10 okay so you can count your little ridges 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and that just helps show how many rounds you've done but you know you can do less or more really whatever you think looks good for your stem so don't stress about that i've slip stitched to join i'm going to chain one and then i'm just going to work two into every stitch around two single crochet so i'm going up from 11 to 22 stitches so i'm going to work this around i'm still going through the back loop and i will meet you up at the end for changing color so for changing color i like to do the change on the last yarn over of the stitch so what we do is we go through pulling up a loop and instead of yarning over pulling through we're just going to yarn over with our next color which is our pumpkin spice and pull through okay and then we slip stitch to join with our pumpkin and we can just go through both loops now okay just give everything a little tug then i'm going to chain two and my chain two is not going to be included as a stitch and then i'm going to work a double crochet in the first stitch and then i'm going to do two double crochet in the next stitch so one and then two in the next and i'm going to do this pattern all the way around so we're going from 22 to 33 stitches and we can actually fasten the green off okay once you've worked all the way around we're going to slip stitch in the top of our first double crochet to join chain two and now we're going to start the front post double crochet stitches we're going to continue to increase though as we go we're going to do a front post double crochet in the first front post double crochet in the second and then front post two front post double crochets in the next so we go around the stitch once and then back down around the stitch again so i'm just going to go through the stitch a little slower so this is the pattern two one two and then two in the same so we're yarning over going down under the post of the stitch yarning over pulling up a loop yarning over pulling through two yarn over pull through two so again yarn over go down under the stitch yarn over pull up a loop yarn over pull through two pull through two and then we'll do two around the next stitch so now we'll be up to 44 stitches at the end of this round so i'm going to go ahead and complete that okay so at the end of this round we're going to slip stitch in the top of our front post double crochet to join the first one chain two and then this round we're just going to do one front post in every stitch around so we're going to keep the stitch count the same at 44 stitches one in every stitch okay and then i'll meet you up at the end of this round okay so we'll slip stitch in the top to join chain two and now we're going to do another increase so we're going to do one front post double crochet in the first stitch in the next two stitches okay so we've done three and then we'll do two around the next so one in each of the next three one two three and then two in the next one two okay so this will go up to 55 stitches so i'm going to go ahead and work all of this around then i'm just going to go ahead and do the next round as well because it will be just one in every stitch so this will increase to 55 and then we'll do a round again at 55 and then we'll do one final increase getting our hat up to 66 stitches okay so now we're going to do our final increase so we're going to work a front post double crochet i already slip stitched and chained two so the same beginning we're going to do four front post doubles before increase so one two three four and then two in the next so one two three four five six so you're going to increase that around and we'll end up with a total of 66 stitches now if you look here you can count your rounds from the back so one two three four five we're on to the sixth round of orange and we are going to do a total of 17 so once you've finished increasing just slip stitch to join and then you're just working one in every stitch around for a total of 17 rounds so if you just count your ridges you're going to have 16 so i am going to go ahead and work that up off camera and then we'll meet up to show you how to finish off the hat with that join as you go ribbed band and then we'll make our leaf and our vine okay so once you get your 17 rounds so again you can count the first one wasn't the post so so one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen now the next round we're just going to work single crochets single crochet in every stitch around and then we'll begin our join as you go ribbed band okay now we're going to slip stitch to join in our first single crochet and i'm going to change to the smaller hook and we're going to chain out a total of 15 so now we're going to work in the second chain from the hook and work single crochets down the chain so we're going to have a total of 14 so there's 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 11 12 13 and 14 okay so we're going to skip the first stitch okay that's going to count for this first row we've worked we're going to slip stitch into the next two stitches of the hat we'll then turn put your yarn working yarn to the back we're going to skip over the two slip stitches and then work single crochets through the back loop only to create the ribbing so we're single crocheting back up the row so once you get to the top of the row we'll chain one turn and then we're going to work back down single crochets through the back loop so we're making two more rows for those two slip stitches so we came up one row coming down row two so we're going to have a row worked per stitch around the hat okay so now we're going to slip stitch into the next two and we're just going to repeat the process you're going to work this all the way around the hat so i'm going to meet you up when we get to the last row okay so when you get to the end you can always count back to make sure you have your 66 rows you should be ending up at the top we're going to chain one and then we're just going to slip stitch the band together so we're going through the back loop and then over to the chain okay so push your hook through you're going to grab the yarn pulling it through and just work that through every stitch and i'll finish this up off camera okay so once you get all the way to the top we're just going to fasten this off then you can take your yarn needle weave in this tail and the band is just going to flip up okay and this is going to be a good size for your 6 to 12 month now also measure your baby's head because if it is on the bigger side you're going to want to go up this is going to fit around that 18 inch head size so now if your baby has a bigger head earlier on at like five months this is probably the size you may want as well when you're weaving you're always going to want to go back in the opposite direction to make sure that you secure now i like to keep my seam at the back when i'm folding the hat so i'm going to work on the leaf and our vine next okay so i did measure out the yarn just so you know roughly how many yards to make this hat so it was about 190 yards could always round that up just for a little difference on gauge and say 200 yards for this hat so let's make our vine um and we're basically going to do a curlicue for that so i'm going to use the smaller hook for this and i'm going to chain out 20. you can vary the your vine just by chaining different amounts so one two three four six and now it's really simple to do this we're going to work three single crochet into each chain so one so in the second chain from the hook two three do the same thing in the next chain one two three same thing in the next chain one two three and the more you do this you're going to notice it's just going to start to curl one two three so i'm just going to keep going at that okay you can see as i worked it just continued to curl around so what i'm going to do now is fasten off and then you can use your tails to sew it to the hat now what i did just to keep things like really simple here you can see i've just attached this one to the side so we'll do something similar but i just wove both of these tails down inside the hat and then knotted it to the inside so that's an option rather than sewing it but it's really up to you how you attach it remember you find easier so you just take your yarn needle you want to knot it like what i did and i'm going to push that through then take my other tail make sure obviously you don't go back down the same space you want to go apart so then when you knot it you can knot it and weave the tail if you want or just to make things like really simple you can just knot it and trim your tails i'm going to do the same with these tails you could also weave them or i'm just doing a really good secure knot okay so next we'll do the smaller hook as well and we will chain a total of 12 for the leaf so put a slip knot on your hook 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 okay so what we're going to do slip stitch in the second chain from the hook single crochet in the next chain half double crochet in the next chain double crochet in the next four so one two three four and then half double crochet in the next single crochet in the next slip stitch in the next and then our final chain we're going to single crochet chain one and single crochet then we'll slip stitch going to do the same thing down the other side so slip stitch single crochet actually what i like to do is go over this tail as i go slip stitch single crochet half double crochet four doubles one two three four and then we'll do a half double single crochet and a slip stitch and then slip stitch in the first slip stitch to join give that tail a little bit of a pull you can see you get a nice leaf shape you can then fasten off and you can do the same thing if you want to just use your tails to attach your leaf okay so i want it over in the corner here just right sort of to the back of our little vine so i'm going to push one tail find the other tail this is why i like to crochet over it because it gets it down into position i'm just going to move it a little bit more and in now you can knot it and then if you want to adjust how the leaf sits in any way you can always use your tails to just get it positioned but i'm going to go ahead do my knots and we'll see how it looks i'm not going to cut the tails or anything until i check it out that's looking nice okay so i'm going to trim the tails i'm happy with how that looks make sure this is to the back and then i'm going to get the tag and we can finish the hat off with putting our personalized tag okay so here's my little personalized tag and i know i get asked usually the size so this one's a little bit i have two sizes one's a little bit bigger this one's a bit smaller so it's an inch and a quarter okay and i just take my embroidery thread this is really easy to do you're going to just go up from the sort of the inside here and you'll want to pull through just roughly how much yarn you think you'll need i'd rather go a little extra than run short and then we're just going to go back and forth through our holes sometimes if you can't get it to come up right through the hole you can just push it up like this and then go through the hole on the side okay sometimes it's hard to get it to come right up through the hole so i'm going to continue that around so as we finish off you should be going back down like this and then you're going to have your tails okay so all i'm going to do is now knot this and again you can weave these little tails if you want but i'm just going to triple knot them and leave that and just give them a trim that wraps up today's tutorial i hope you enjoyed the video make sure to check the description box below for the yarn and pattern links thanks so much guys have an awesome day