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
Michelle says
Hi, could I use hdc starting chain? Just wondering if it would effect the stretch of the camel stitch. I have a hard time making sure that my chain doesn’t twist.
Mikey says
Try it and see how it goes. That's the only way to really know.
Alison J Miller says
I've given up trying to figure this pattern out. Moved on to something else which is a shame as I really liked it.
Donna Carnicle says
Hi, I love this hat. I have been confused and just decided to do hdc on the brim in round 2-4. It says to "work work" camel stitch.... like I said, I have been doing a hdc. Is that what you want there or am I off base?