Easy Hat Crochet Pattern: The Leigh

Skill Level: Intermediate 

Crochet Abbreviations

• CH = chain
• SK = skip
• ST = stitch
• HDC = half double crochet
• SC = single crochet

Shopping List

• Crochet hook I 5.5 mm
• Less than one skein of Lion Brand Jeans Yarn in Classic or any medium weight yarn.
• Scissors
• Yarn needle

Finished Size

• The hat fits most adult women. When following the gauge as written, the finished size is approx. 20″ circumference (unstretched/unworn) and approx a 9.75′ height

Gauge

• Each sc, hdc, hdc cluster is approximately 1.5″ & each sc, hdc, hdc cluster height is slightly less than .5″

Notes

• The hat pattern is written in standard US terms
• Sl st’s and ch 1’s do not count as st’s
• The parentheses () show the number of stitches in each row and round.

Leigh Crochet Hat Pattern

Band of the Hat

Foundation Row: ch 6, in the second ch from the hook sc, sc in remaining chains across (5)

Row 1: ch 1, in first st sc in the back loop, sc in the back loop of every st across (5)

Row 2 – 54: Repeat row 1 (5)

After the last row, join the band together short end to short end with 5 sl st’s, do not fasten off yarn, work along the long end of the band for the rest of the pattern.

Main Hat

Round 1: Ch 1 (after finishing up the 5 sl st’s to attach the short ends of the band), hdc 54 times evenly around the long end of the band, join with a sl st into the top of the first hdc of the round. (54)

Round 2: Ch 1, in first st {sc, hdc, hdc}, sk 2 st’s, in next st *{sc, hdc, hdc}, sk 2 st’s, repeat from * ending with 2 sk st’s, sl st into the top of the first sc. (54)

Round 3- 19: Repeat Round 2.

*** Next, turn the hat inside out before closing. So, the wrong side is our right side This is the side you will use when wearing your hat since it has a lot more texture. You are free to wear your hat either way. 

Closing the Top of the Hat

• After the last round fasten off leaving a 12″ tail to close up the top.
• Using a yarn needle weave the yarn tail in and out of the last stitch from the last round until you reach the stitch you started with.
• Now pull the yarn tight to close up the hat leaving the yarn needle attached to the hat.
• Drop the yarn needle & yarn end down through the hole you just created (from pulling the yarn tight) in the center of the hat.
• Turn your hat inside out.
• Pull the yarn tight again and begin weaving the yarn back and forth over the hole to close it off tightly. You can do this as much as you need
• Cut the yarn and weave in the loose end with the yarn needle.
• Turn the hat the right side out