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
Terri says
I’m just starting but the 60 chains doesn’t look big enough, am I reading it correctly?
Mikey says
It depends on the size you wish to make. Just add more chains if you feel it's too small.
Krystal says
Hat is super cute but the pattern is confusing. And the video seems like he is crocheting backwards. It’s yarn over isn’t it? Not under?
Mikey says
I haven't filmed this pattern but if you are referring to under. The way my mom showed me was to just grab the yarn which was doing it under. In getting bigger, a major organization asked me to retrain myself to go over to match pattern books. The original tutorials has me doing it under but it took me about a month to get it to stick naturally to YOH. I'm sorry for the confusion.
N Greene says
I would benefit from a video, as well. I love the pattern, and have done pretty well, but I'm at the decrease portion of the hat, and I'm having to kinda fly by the seat of my pants! It's very confusing and not lining up or decreasing the way it should. I'm tweaking as I go along, but I would love to see what you actually did - in action. Thanks!
JoAnn Kupcho Trenary says
Any way to save/print the patterns that are not on Ravelry?