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
Erin says
Is there a gauge for this?
Andra says
Hi,
I got confused at the body, round 2. It is saying to join with sl st in top of beg ch-3 . What does beg mean? And does it mean to chain 3 in the end? And then round 3 join with sl st to beg sc? Same...don't get it that "beg" 🙂
Than you ,
Andra
Laura Jean Bartholomew says
Sorry Andra - beg = beginning. -LJ
Sophia Moreno says
Hello. Thank you for this pattern. I’m really enjoying making it. I have a question on round 2 of the decreasing. What does it mean by FPTR2tog [using 2 posts rows below]. To me it looks like I would be doing the FPTRtog around the front post and the double crochet but then if I do that it looks like I’ll be ending up with way too many stitches. Help please.
Laura Jean Bartholomew says
Sophia- the FPTR2tog is explained in the Special Stitches. It is a decrease. Uses 2 posts - 2 rows blows. - LJ
Sophia Moreno says
Hi Lauren. That doesn't really answer my question. I'm sorry. I know how to do a FPTR2tog. What I don't understand is which 2 stitches I'm performing it on. Am I doing the FPTR2tog on the two FPTCs or am I doing it on one of the FPTC and one of the double crochets? I'm sorry for the confusion.
Sophia Moreno says
Sorry that should have said Laura not Lauren. My apologies.
Laura Jean Bartholomew says
skip the double crochet and use the fptrs - hope that helps.