Texture up your hat with a ripple, lots of ripples... I say! I love the natural elastic nature of the Camel Stitch, as Mikey has demonstrated in the Crystal Ice Hat. It gave the body of the hat easy ripple textures. This is the Crochet Easy Ripple Hat.
The latest revision has some fixes and using Patons Alpaca Blend with the same hook size. The pattern was revised with a crochet diagram to help you out.
Using Caron Cakes, I decided to use CaronCakes Bumbleberry to see how it would turn out. Full disclaimer, the ball naturally fed the colours and it just happened to work out that the brim was a solid colour before changing. Seriously, I should have bought a lotto ticket! Below though, I show you a sample in Bernat Pop! and you can see the brim change midway through to a different colour.
Crochet Diagram
This is available in the download above as well.
If you want the brim a solid colour, isolate a complete section of the Caron Cakes colour and use it. When the brim is finished, cut the yarn then restart the ball at a new colour. Caron Cakes has the ability to have the colours all work together well as decided by professional designers. So don't be afraid to doctor it.
Written by Laura Jean Bartholomew, The Crochet Crowd Seeker
©2017 The Crochet Crowd
Jean says
This pattern would really benefit from a chart, especially for the decreasing rows. Love the pattern but am struggling a bit with the second row, like many others.
Mikey says
Do you think I just should pull this free pattern offline. It's easier to pull offline. I am struggling to find time to do up more diagrams at the moment and maybe just pulling this down will be the best option and revisit later on in the year.
Jean says
Thanks for replying! I really like this pattern. For a few years I have been crocheting hats for women who attend a particular cancer retreat. Each year it has been a different pattern made in lots of different colors. I have been testing patterns for the one I want to make for this years retreat. This is the 5th hat I’ve made to see which one I want to make. This is it. Great texture, relatively simple but interesting to make and it doesn’t take too long.
Determined to come up with a way to deal with this pesky Decreasing Round 2, this is what I did. Ch 2, *dc in the next st. FPTR2tog [using 2 FPTR in the previous dc/FPTR round] Repeat from *around. Then I fudged a dc then a FPTR FOR THE LAST 2 stitches to end the row with 32 sts.
I think it looks pretty good, pretty resolved. I’d leave the pattern online and put it on your list to chart or clarify when you get to it.
Hope there aren’t too many typos in this comment.
Mikey says
I have printed out this pattern to leave it on my desk. I have to crochet it first to understand it. I may need to film it if you think it would be ideal. I'm happy to do that when there's more time.
Diane Auger says
Hi Mickey!
Is there a left hand version of this pattern?
Thank you!
Mikey says
Usually, patterns aren't written in left or right handed. So to answer your question, I'm unaware of any patterns written for left handers.