Double Crochet – Geek and Yarn

A while ago, my mom asked me if I could make hats for her co-worker’s new babies. One boy hat, and two girl hats. I was excited to start designing, and crocheting them! At first it was an extreme challenge to get the just the right size, and it took quite a while, and lots of test hats, but once the hard part was over, it was a breeze! It also was kind of a new experience, for I really only dabbled in hat making, never made anything that was ready for a baby.

We packaged them in acrylic boxes, with decorative tissue paper around the bottom of the hat. And a blue ribbon tied around the box with a orange gift tag.

For a while I was thinking about making and selling baby hats. I did great a deal of research on the size of baby heads, hat sizes, different types of yarn, and various styles for the hats. All the research came in handy for these hats, and for hat making in general. But you could say, after making these hats, selling hats wasn’t something I’d care to do.

Brace yourself, ’cause here comes a flood of photos!

Here is a closer look at the ribbed edge and stitches, unfortunately, I didn’t think to get a close-up of the yellow/pink hat. I worked in double crochet, using a 4 mm crochet hook, and Lion Brand’s Babysoft yarn in White, Lemonade, Sweet Pea (I love how that sounds), and Creamsicle. To get the ribbed look, I used the front post double crochet.

When we went to get the yarn, mama helped me pick out colors, and during the design process, she told me what color combinations she’d wanted for them.

Here is a closer look at the flowers. They were easy to make, and the result was girly and delicate, perfect for baby girls. These flowers were inspired by Skip To My Lou’s, Crochet Flowers pattern, and also Mary Jane’s Mary Janes Three Layered Flower pattern. When looking for inspiration for the flowers, I was looking for something with more than one layer. I didn’t even know you could crochet flowers with layers without having to sew them together. You learn something new everyday, especially in crochet!

Here are the hats with their edges folded up. With the edges folded they were around 4″ in height. With the brims unfolded, the hats were approximately 5.5″ in height. And they have a 13″ circumference.

These are pictures of the little dots on the tops of the hats. Done by just using the green yarn or pink yarn for the magic ring, then changing to the white or yellow yarn to do the body of the hat.

The pinks in the girl hats are actually the same. The lighting was set up differently when the photos were taken with the yellow hat. And it was much darker when the pink hat was photographed.