Striped Elf Hat Pattern

I made this hat for my son to wear to "Hat Day" at school. I was asked about the pattern, and since I didn't follow a pattern I said I would write up what I did. So here it is. Please share with me if you use the pattern. I would love to see how it turns out! On the down side, as this hat is hot off the hook today, so is the pattern. It hasn't been tested yet. If you find something that doesn't quite make sense, or any other issue, feel free to contact me!  This size is large enough to fit a female adult, but fits loosely but not too loose on my 10 year old.

Happy Crocheting!

Sheri

Striped Elf Hat

By Sheri Goad

(Edited to Add: The fur around the brim is created by using a combined strand of Red Heart White and Bernat Boa in white. I have also changed the last line. I used 3 rows of the white for the brim. I had only put down two. It now reads Row 64-66.)

Materials

Less than half skein of each:

Red Heart Super Saver:

Cherry Red, Glowworm, White

(Any Worsted Weight in your choice

of colors will work for this pattern.)

Bernat Boa: White

Hook Size: I

Tapestry Needle

Gauge

4 rows = 2” 6 stitches = 2”

Row 1: Magic Ring, Ch 2, 9 DC Join (9)
Row 2: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 3: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 4: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 5: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 6: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 7: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 8: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 9: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 10: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next two stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2. (12
Row 11: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 12: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 13: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 14: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 15: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 16: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 17: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 18: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next two stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2. (16)
Row 19: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 20: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 21: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 22: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 23: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 24: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 25: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 26: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next two  three stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2. (20)
Row 27: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 28: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 29: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 30: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 31: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 32: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 33: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 34: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next four stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2. (24)
Row 35: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 36: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 37: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 38: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 39: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 40: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 41: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 42: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next five stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2. (28)
Row 43: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 44: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 45: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 46: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 47: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 48: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 49: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 50: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next four stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 51: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 52: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next four stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 53: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 54: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next four stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 55: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 56: 2 DC in first stitch, 1 DC in next four stitches. Repeat around. Join. Ch 2.
Row 57: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2.

Row 58: 1 DC each stitch. Join. Ch 2.
Row 59: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Red, Ch 2 .

Row 60: 1 DC each stitch. Join. Ch 2.
Row 61: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with Green, Ch 2 .

Row 62: 1 DC each stitch. Join. Ch 2.
Row 63: 1 DC in each stitch around. Join with White and White Boa together. Ch 2 .

Row 64-66 1 DC in each stitch around. Join. Tie off after last round and weave in ends.

Make a Pom-Pom using the White and White Boa yarn. Attach to the end of the hat.


©2013 Frogging Along/ Sheri Goad This pattern may not be sold or duplicated. You may sell the items you make from this pattern. Online, please link back to the pattern. Thank You!

I'm a Semi-Finalist!

I am beside myself excited! My Mountain just announced the top 18 Semi-Finalists in their hat design contest. I was thrilled to see my hat pop up in the pictures!  They are now open to voting and the public chooses the top 5!  That means YOU!  Please take a minute and GO VOTE!!

There will be 5 Finalists, but the top voted finalist will get their hat pattern listed as a paid pattern, and ALL proceeds from it will go to the charity of their choice!

A year ago I couldn't even read a pattern! I'm thrilled to be among so many amazingly talented designers!

"Yes, I believe I was the only one at the park with a hook in my hand!"

There's nothing quite as exciting as taking the kids to an amusement park to end the summer with a bang! The kids had a blast, I'm more of a hang-out-hold-stuff-while-you're-on-the-rollercoaster kind of gal myself. Thanks to hubby's awesome football throwing skills, I was in good company!

Day One - Chillin' with Dude!

Getting Dude in on some crochet action!

Day Two- Hanging with Dave!

Needless to say, the park was a bit full and lines a bit long, I had plenty of time to take advantage of the yarn packed in my bag. Here's what came out of our weekend trip.

Baby Girl Hat - Made on the way to the amusement park. Traffic was horrid!

Chillin' by the pool!

Black Light Hats! Definitely going to be getting more of this yarn and doing hats for the craft shows this fall! (Red Heart Black Light Yarn  I used the Basic Beanie (Adult Size) Pattern

I started this Purple Minion hat at the park and finished up after we arrived home, I used Dude as my inspiration. There are multiple styles of this character hat out on the WWW. I will post my pattern in the near future.

Our weekend was a blast, the kids had fun, I got to make more hats, and we all had some wonderful family time together.  School started today and soon the weather will cool, leaves will get crunchy, and the need for all these hats will be upon us!  I can't wait.

P.S.  *WAVES* to the nice lady I met at Kings Dominion and chatted about crocheting with. (Hopefully she made it here to check out the blog!)  Go ahead, pick up a hook and yarn...you can do it!

Hat Crazy!!

I will openly admit I have gone a touch hat crazy! In all fairness, it's not my fault. Full blame is to be placed on the My Mountain Hat Design Contest. I first learned about the contest while searching for crochet blogs. Liz, from Crochet in Color had posted about it.

My first request was for Boston and Boston Style yarns...from these came this, my first entry. I blogged about it HERE. (There's more pics there too. I took another batch of pics in hopes of showing the pattern off more.)

I fell in love with the Boston yarns and decided to request the same yarn in different colors for my second entry. This time I requested, charcoal heather, brilliant white, black and purple. I had a fun pattern worked up and couldn't wait to try it out. This one is named "Payton" after the adorable young lady who fell in love with it when she was modeling the hats for me.

The Boston and Boston Style yarns were amazing to work with, I loved the texture of the yarn and the color choices...so many to choose from! I decided for my third entry I would request something in a super bulky weight. I thought they were 100g so needing about 225g  to finish the next pattern I had worked up I requested 3 skeins. This time I simply asked for three of the same color, any color, and waited anxiously to see what surprise would come in the mailbox. SURPRISE! I got Neon Pink Marl in the Bravo Big. DOUBLE SURPRISE! Each skein had 200g!  With 600g of Super Bulky yarn, there was enough to make my third, fourth and fifth entry!

Entry #3 is called "Duplicity" With an open back and drawstring this hat can be used much like my first entry, "Fusion" the difference is the opening is wider and "Duplicity" can double as a cowl. Using such a bulky yarn, this hat worked up in just about an hour and a half.

Entry #4 is called "Flirty" Since the hat needed to be made in all Schachenmayr yarn, and I didn't have time to request anymore, I took advantage of the extra I had. Using about 3 yards of yarn and separating the strands, I made the flower and gray and white band that weaves in and out around the hat.  They are the perfect color match!

Entry #5 is "Bobble" using a basic pattern, I added a bit of zing to this bobble style hat by using some of the Boston Black yarn I had left over from my second entry. 

Entry #6 "Belle"  is a petite hat made from bits of Boston and Boston Style yarns left over from entries one and two.

It's been a fun month of going hat crazy...I'd be lying if I said it was going to end here...I have already done up two non-contest hats. One replicating the "Flirty" hat in a less bulky yarn and a chemo hat for a friend of mine.  

"What's Your Mountain?"

Have you heard about the My Mountain Hat Design Contest? You pick the yarn from their selection of fun yarns and design a hat! I chose Aquatic Color from their Boston Style collection, and Neon Yellow from their Boston collection.  It's a bulky yarn that's very easy to work with. My design is going to take more than  originally requested so I'm waiting! More is on the way. What a fun way to jump feet first into the world of creating patterns. I'm anxious to finish this one up. With two sampler hats already finished, the final project should be just right! It was fun designing something and figuring out ways to make it better. 

The theme of the contest is "What's Your Mountain?" I've had many mountains to deal with to get where I am today, but my focus is on crocheting. My personal mountain was learning to read patterns, I've come a  long way baby! What a perfect tribute to overcoming that mountain...designing my own pattern. Photos of the finished hats have to be submitted by August 30th. I'll share photos of the finished projects as soon as I submit them.

So tell me, "What's Your Mountain?" crocheting or otherwise.