Crocheted Sunhat for Fanciful Flat Dolls
July 12, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under crochet, doll and dolls and dollmaking
Yesterday, I posted the pattern for the crocheted sundress for the Fanciful Flat Fiber Friends Dolls.
Here’s the matching sunhat:
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You will need one ball of Patons Canadiana (1oo% acrylic), approx 158 m/173 yds; 85 gm/3 0z in Crazy Shades.
I crocheted the sunhat with a ‘G’ (4.5 mm) crochet hook which gave a gauge of: 4 rows and 5 sc to 1 inch/2.5 cm.
The brim of the finished hat is 3 inches/7.5 cm in diameter.
PATTERN: Note that all stitches are worked through back bar of stitch in previous row to give ridged pattern.
Flora’s sunhat is crocheted in a spiral, without joining the rounds, beginning at the center of the crown:
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Rnd 1: Wrap the yarn around your finger to make an ‘e’. Insert the hook into the ‘e’, and pull up a loop, yarn over hook, and pull through loop on hook. Work 6 sc into ‘e’, then pull up tight on the starting end.
Place a short length of yarn or contrasting thread after the end of the first round, to mark the round. At the end of each subsequent round, pull the yarn out, and place it on the crocheting. Work over it.
Rnd 2: 2 sc in each sc (12 sc) place marker (’pm’ is the abbreviation I’ll use from now on)
Rnd 3: (2 sc in 1st sc, 1 sc in next) 6 times (18 sc) pm
Rnd 4: (2 sc in 1st sc, 2 sc) 6 times (24 sc) pm
Rnds 5 & 6: 24 sc, pm
Brim: Rnd 7: 2 sc in each sc (48 sc)
Rnd 8: 1 sl st in each sc. Cut yarn, weave in ends.
I turned the hat inside out because I liked the way the brim looked when the hat was inside out.
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