The original stepping texture hat has been redesigned to accommodate a thinner yarn with Bernat Symphony yarn. It is a tightly textured crochet hat that is easy to follow. Two versions are in the same pattern, including a beanie and a toque (longer version). This is the Easy Crochet Step Hat pattern.
The pattern is easy to repeat, and the yarn is changing colour on its own. It uses one of my favourite brims of all time slip stitching, and with the thickness of the yarn, the brim creation goes much faster than regular 4-ply worsted yarn.
This hat is based on a Stepping Texture Hat with revisions for thinner yarn and sizing options.
The toque version repeats the section rows 2 to 6 twice while the smaller beanie version is just once.
Materials
Bernat Symphony Yarn, 225 g/7.9 oz, 282 m/309 yds
- Version 1 is Beanie Format for Average Adult in the colour called Royal.
- Version 2 is the toque version in Pomegranate Punch for average adult.
You will have enough yarn to do a generous size pom pom if desired.
Hook: 6 mm / J/10
Gauge: 11 sc and 12 rows = 4” [10 cm]
Abbreviations
- Approx = Approximate(ly)
- Beg = Beginning
- Ch = Chain(s)
- Hdc = Half Double Crochet
- Hdcbp = Half double crochet back post. Yoh and draw up a loop around post of next stitch at back of work, inserting hook from right to left. Yoh and draw through through 3 loops on hook.
- Hdcfp = Half double crochet front post. Yoh and draw up a loop around post of next stitch at front of work, inserting hook from right to left. Yoh and draw through 3 loops on hook.
- Rem = Remaining
- Rep = Repeat
- Rnd(s) = Round(s)
- RS = Right side
- Sc = Single crochet
- Sl st = Slip stitch
- St(s) = Stitch(es)
- Tog = Together
- WS = Wrong side
- Yoh = Yarn over hook
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Brim Ribbing: Ch 9.
1st row: (RS). Working in back loops only. 1 sl st in 2nd ch from hook. 1 sl st in each ch across. Turn. 8 sts.
2nd row: Working in back loops only. Ch 1. 1 sl st in each of next 8 sl sts. Turn.
Rep 2nd row until work from beg measures 19.5" [53.5 cm], ending on a WS
row. Do not fasten off.
Join back seam: Working in back loops only, sl st last row and rem loops of
foundation ch tog. Do not fasten off.
Turn work so that the seam ridge is inside the hat and proceed as follows:
1st rnd: Ch 1. Work 55 hdc evenly around. Join with sl st to first hdc. 55 hdc. Video tutorial will have a bonus tip on making this easier for spacing.
2nd rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcfp around each of next 3 sts. 1 hdcbp around each of next 2 dc) 11 times. Join with sl st to first hdcfp.
3rd rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcbp around next st. 1 hdcfp around each of next 3 sts. 1 hdcbp
around next st) 11 times. Join with sl st to first hdcbp.
4rd rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcbp around each of next 2 sts. 1 hdcfp around each of next 3 sts) 11 times. Join with sl st to first hdcbp.
5th rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcfp around next st. 1 hdcbp around each of next 2 sts. 1 hdcfp around each of next 2 sts) 11 times. Join with sl st to first hdcfp.
6th rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcfp around each of next 2 sts. 1 hdcbp around each of next 2 sts. 1 hdcfp around next st) 8 times. Join with sl st to first hdcfp.
Rep the last 5 rnds one more time for the beanie version OR 2 more times for the toque version.
Shape top: 1st rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcfp around each of next 3 sts. Skip next st. 1 hdcbp
around next st) 11 times. Join with sl st to first hdcfp. 44 sts.
2nd rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcfp around each of next 3 sts. Skip next st) 11 times. Join with
sl st to first hdcfp. 33 sts.
3rd rnd: Ch 1. (1 hdcfp around each of next 2 sts. Skip next st) 11 times. Join with sl st to first hdcfp. 22 sts.
4th rnd: Ch 1. 1 hdcfp in each st around. Join with sl st to first hdcfp. 22 sts.
5th rnd: Ch 1. 1 hdcfp in first st. Sk next st. *1 hdcfp around next next st, sk next st. Rep from * around. Join with a sl st to first hdcfp. 11 sts.
Fasten off, leaving a long end. Draw the end tightly through rem sts and fasten
securely.
Make a pom pom if desired.
Tutorial
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