Sunflower Beanie - Add a little sunshine to your autumn & winter with my Sunflower Beanie...

 

Last week I shared my Sunflowers Scarf pattern with you all and this week we have the matching beanie.  Inspired by Van Gogh's famous painting, I hope this will add some sunshine to your life.  Crocheted in 100% new wool, this hat will keep your head cosy even in the coldest weather.

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Video Tutorial

Sunflower Beanie

Materials

Drops Alaska in Dark Brown Mix (A) 1, 50g ball, Mustard (B) 1, 50g ball, Off White (C) 2, 50g balls

Darning needle

Stitch marker

5mm (H) hook

4.5mm (7) hook

Gauge

4 x 4 inches (10x10 cm) = 14sts x 8 rows (in ldc) 

Ability 

Intermediate

Abbreviations US Terms (UK Conversion)

dc - double crochet (treble crochet)

sc - single crochet (double crochet)

hdc - half double crochet (half treble crochet)

ldc - linked double crochet (linked treble crochet)

lhdc - linked half double crochet (linked half treble crochet)

ch - chain

st(s) - stitch(es)

sp(s) - space(s)
sl st - slip stitch

cl - cluster

bcl - beginning cluster

ps - puff stitch

yo - yarn over

sk - skip

pm - place marker

Other notes: US terms throughout. Drops Alaska is a 100% new wool. Each 50g ball contains approx. 77 yds (70 m) and is hand wash only. When substituting yarn be sure to choose one with a similar gauge. When starting the first ps, pull up a loop to the height of the st, this looks more seamless than chaining 2 to start. 

Special Stitches 

Beginning cluster: Ch2, [Yo, insert hook into st and pull up a loop, yo pull through 2 loops] x3, yo pull through all loops, ch1 to lock in place. Cluster: [Yo, insert hook into st and pull up a loop, yo pull through 2 loops] x4, yo pull through all loops, ch1 to lock in place. 

Puff stitch: [Yo, insert hook into st and pull up a long loop] x4, yo pull through all loops, ch1 to secure puff. 

Linked double crochet: Insert hook into horizontal bar of previous st, yo and pull through loop, insert hook into next st, yo and pull up a loop, yo pull through 2 loops, yo pull through remaining 2 loops. 

Linked half double crochet: Insert hook into horizontal bar of previous st, yo and pull through loop, insert hook into next st, yo and pull up a loop, yo pull through all loops. 

With A and 5mm hook, ch4 and join with sl st to form ring. 

Round 1 Ch1 (does not count as st), 12sc into ring, join to 1st sc. (12sc) 

Round 2 Ch1, sc in same st, [ch3, sc in next st] around, ch3, sl st to sc. (12sc, 12 ch3 sps) 

Round 3 Sl st into next sp, ch1, sc in same sp, [ch3, sc in next sp] around, ch3, sl st to sc. (12sc, 12 ch3 sps) 

Round 4 Pull up a loop, ps in ch sp, ps in same sp, [2ps in next sp] around, sl st to top ps. (24ps) With B, join with sl st in any ch sp.

Round 5 Bcl in same sp, [cl in next sp] around, sl st to top bcl. (24cl) With C, join with sl st in any ch sp. 

Round 6 Ch1, sc in same sp (pm), hdc in next st, ldc in next st, ldc in each sp and st around, do not join we will be working in a spiral. (72ldc)

Remember to move marker up each round. 

Round 7 Ldc in each st. (72ldc) 

Repeat round 7, 9 more times or until piece measures 8 inches (20cm) from top of crown ending with lhdc, sc, sl st in last 3 sts. Do not fasten off. 

Ribbing 

Row 1 With right side facing and 4.5mm hook, ch9, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch, sl st to next 2 sts along bottom of hat, turn. (8sc) 

Row 2 Sk both sl sts, sc in each st working in bl only, turn. 

Row 3 Ch1, sc in each st working in bl only, sl st to next 2 sts along bottom of hat, turn. 

Repeat row 2 & 3 until you have worked around the entire hat. Do not fasten off. 

Turning work inside out, sl st or sc both edges together to join, fasten off and weave in ends.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and if you would like to make the matching scarf you can find the pattern here.

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See you all again soon...

Catherine

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Summer Crochet For Kids - 10 quick and easy projects to make for your kids this summer...

Hello friends, the sun is shining and I hope you are all able to get out and enjoy the weather.  I have put together some really cute, quick and easy crochet projects to make for your kids, with a summer theme.  The patterns are all free and by my favourite designers, so be sure to go and check them out.

I love this cute zesty coin purse by Crochet Cloudberry.  Perfect for your little ones to keep their pennies in, or for yourself...

Lime Coin Purse

All I hear from Little T in the summer is "Mum can I have an ice pop?".  If your kids love them too then they will love these ice pop cosies by Green Fox Farm Designs.

Freeze Pop Holders

In the UK we have been making rainbows to hang in our windows to show our support for the NHS.  Why not make one for your kids to hang in their windows too.  The pattern is by The Crafty Therapist.

Rainbow of Gratitude

When the sun is hot, keep your kids cool in a cute, cotton sun hat.  I'm sure this pattern by Cute & Cosy Crochet would look just as good for a boy in more masculine colours.

Simple Sweet Sunhat

The next three patterns are all by Jen Hayes Creations and would all make great pretend food for your kids to play with.

Cottage Garden Cabbage

Cottage Garden Carrots

Cottage Garden Tomatoes

Another coin purse, this one with a cute koala design.  Pattern by Fluffy Stitches

Koala Coin Purse

It would not be a summer without butterflies and these gorgeous crochets ones are just as beautiful as the real thing.  Pattern by Loops & Love Crochet.

Butterfly Amigurumi

Make this cute ice lolly cuddler by 3am Grace Designs

Popsicle Kawaii Cuddler

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I hope you enjoyed my selection of free patterns and have found something fun to make for your kids.

Bye for now...

Catherine

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Crochet For A Cause Blog Hop - Free pdf pattern to download every Monday...

Hello friends, this week I am excited to announce that I am taking part in the Crochet For A Cause Blog Hop, which is being organised by the lovely Ashley from Edyth Blayn. 

Each Monday during the event, two designers will make their pattern available to download free. Their pattern will be free for one week only so be sure to check back every Monday.  You can find more information about the cause and links to the free patterns here...

All designers will be sharing hat and scarf patterns with the aim of donating them to your local homeless shelter, school, cancer centre or pregnancy resource centre.  This coming Monday it is my turn to share a pattern and you will be able to download the pdf for my Basic Beanies free for 1 week.  Remember this pdf will only be free for 1 week from Monday 15th June, so be sure to head on over to Ravelry for your pattern.

Click the picture above to find other great patterns, you will need to check each Monday to see what pattern is available for that day.  Click the picture below to get your free pdf of the Basic Beanies pattern.

I hope you enjoy this blog hop and will consider making something for one of your local charities.

Take care for now...

Catherine

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Granny Square Beanie - Mini Mother's Day Series Part 3

Hello Friends.  It's time for part 3 of our Mini Mother's Day pattern series and this week continuing on with the granny square theme, we have the Granny Square Beanie.  I'm sure any mother would love this for Mother's Day or you could even make a head start on your Christmas gifts.

You can find part 1 and part 2 here...

The hat is designed to fit an adult and is quite snug around the brim and slightly slouchie at the top.  4 squares are joined together with ribbing added at the brim and granny stitch shaping at the crown.  It works up pretty fast, making it a great quick and easy gift.

I have used Stylecraft Batik Elements DK in the shade Titanium and matched it with Jarol Heritage DK in Winter White.  Although I have used different colours this time, all of the patterns are designed to be a matching set and you can of course use the same colourway for each one.


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Granny Square Beanie

Materials

Stylecraft Batik Elements DK & Jarol Heratige DK (less than 100g in total)

4mm (G) hook & 3.5mm (E)

Darning needle

Size

Adult

Gauge

Granny square 4 ½ inches (11 ½ cm)

Ability

Intermediate

Abbreviations US Terms (UK conversion)

sc - single crochet (double crochet)

dc – double crochet (treble crochet)

ch – chain

sp - space

st(s) - stitch(es)

sk – skip

bl – back loop

mc – main colour

cc – contrast colour

dec - decrease

Decreasing:  A decrease is worked over 2 sps as follows, dc in the 1st sp, dc2tog over same and next sp, dc in 2nd sp.  

The first round of decreases is worked where the corners join, all following decreases are worked over the sps before and after previous decreases.  You are effectively making a granny square in reverse.

Other notes:  Alternate between cc and mc each round and join in new colours with a sl st.  If you wish to make in only 1 colour, sl st to corner sp when starting a new round.  

Ch3 at start of round counts as dc (you may replace with a standing st or chainless dc if you prefer).  The larger sized hook is used for granny squares and crown.  The smaller hook is used for ribbing.

Granny Square (make 4)

With large hook and cc, ch4 and join with sl st to form ring.

Round 1 (Right side), Ch3, 2dc into ring, [ch2, 3dc into ring] 3 times, ch2, join with sl st to top ch3.

Round 2 Join new colour in corner sp, [ch3, 2dc,  ch2, 3dc] in same sp, in next and every sp [3dc, ch2, 3dc], join with sl st to top ch3.

Round 3 Join new colour in corner sp, ch3, 2dc in same sp, ch2, 3dc in same sp, 3dc in each sp across sides, [3dc, ch2, 3dc] in each corner sp, join with sl st to top ch3.

Rounds 4-6 repeat round 3.

Joining squares

With right sides together sc or sl st 4 squares together to form a tube.

Ribbing

Row 1 With right side facing, small hook and mc, attach yarn at any seam with a sl st, ch9, sc in 2^nd ch from hook and in each ch,  sl st to next 2 sts along bottom of granny square, turn. (8sc)

Row 2 Sk both sl sts, sc in each st working in bl only, turn.

Row 3 Ch1, sc in each st working in bl only, sl st to next 2 sts along bottom of granny square, turn.

Repeat row 2 & 3 until you have worked around the entire hat.  Do not fasten off.  Turning work inside out, sl st or sc both edges together to join, fasten off.

Crown Shaping

With mc, right side facing and large hook, join yarn with sl st in any sp that is not a corner sp where squares are joined.

Round 1 Ch3, 2dc in same sp, 3dc in each sp around working a dec at each join (over sp before and after the join), join with sl st to top ch3.

Rounds 2-5 repeat round 1 placing your decreases above decreases in previous round.

Round 6 Ch3 (counts as 1^st dc of dec), work 4 dec
 around, join with sl st to top ch3.  Leaving a long tail fasten off and thread yarn onto a darning needle.  Work through each stitch and pull tight to close top of hat.  Fasten off and weave in ends.

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I do hope you enjoy the pattern and give it a go and make sure to stop by next week for our final pattern in the series.

All the best
Catherine
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Basic Beanies - Free crochet pattern, part of the 2020 Charity Stash Bash CAL

Hello everyone, it's time for our second installment of our Charity Stash Bash CAL.  If you are knew to my blog then you might like to check out the link below, which will give you all the details.

This month we will be making beanies.  Hats are always a sought after item in the shoe boxes every year and are another quick and easy make, great for stash busting.  I have designed this pattern to be a base for your own creativity.

The hats are very basic giving you plenty of scope to adapt and embellish the pattern to make it unique.  You can easily add stripes, pom poms, tassels or stitch on a cute flower or applique.

The pdf for this pattern is available free for Crochet for a Cause for 1 week only, from 15th June 2020

Helpful Links...

2020 Charity Stash Bash

Operation Christmas Child US

Operation Christmas Child UK

Ravelry pattern page

An ad free pdf version of this pattern is available in my online stores, thank you for supporting my work...

If you would like to take part and prefer knit over crochet, I have linked some other pattern choices along with more crochet hats for you to make.  Just click the Stash Bash link above for more patterns and information. 

Basic Beanies

Materials

Aran / worsted yarn (less than 100g for each size)

5mm & 4.5mm hooks

Darning needle

Size

Newborn [3 months, 6 months, 12 months, toddler, child, teen, adult, adult large]

Ability

Beginner / intermediate

Abbreviations US Terms (UK conversion)

sc - single crochet (double crochet)

dc – double crochet (treble crochet)

ch – chain

st(s) - stitch(es)

bl – back loop

Gauge

15 sts to 10cm (4 inches) and 7 rows

Sizing:

Inches (cm)	Newborn	3 months	6 months	12 months	Toddler	Child	Teen	Adult	Adult large
Circumference	12 (31)	14 (36)	15 (38)	16 (41)	18 (46)	19 (49)	20 (51)	21 (54)	22 (56)
Crown to bottom of ear	5 (13)	5 ½ (14)	6 (15)	6 ½ (17)	7 ½ (19)	8 (20)	9 (23)	10 (25)	11 (28)

Other notes:  Hat is worked in rounds starting from the crown.  Ribbing may be added and is worked sideways, joining onto the main body of hat as you go.  Beginners may wish to forego the ribbing to make the pattern beginner friendly.  

This hat pattern is designed to give you a blank canvas to work from, enabling you to and adapt and embellish as you wish.  Change colours to add stripes or add flowers and appliques to make a truly unique hat.

Increasing:  Increases are made by working 2 stitches into the same stitch.  An easy way to remember how to increase evenly around is as follows –

Round 2, make 1 increase in every st.  Round 3, inc in the 1^st of every 2 sts.  Round 4, inc in the 1^st of every 3 sts.  Round 5, inc in the 1^st of every 4 sts and so on for as many increases as your required size states.  

Hat crown shaping

With 5mm hook chain 3 and join with sl st to form ring.

Round 1 Ch3 (counts as dc), 9dc into ring, join with sl st to top ch3.  (10dc)

Round 2 Ch3, dc in same st, 2dc in every st around, join with sl st to top ch3.  (20dc)

Round 3 Ch3, dc in same st, [dc in next st, 2dc in next st] repeat around, dc in last st, join with sl st to top ch3.  (30dc)

Continue in the same way increasing 10 sts evenly each round for 0 [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4] more rounds.

Newborn, 6 months, toddler, teen, large sizes only

Continue in the same way for 1 more round, increasing 5sts evenly.  You will need to increase in the 1^st of every 6 [_, 8, _, 10, _, 12, _, 14] sts.

You should now have – 35 [40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75] sts

Hat body

Round 1 Ch3, dc in each st around, join with sl st to top ch3.

Repeat round 1 a further 2[3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] times.

If you are a beginner or would like a more basic hat and don’t want to add the ribbing, add more rounds of dc here until you reach required length.

Ribbing

With 4.5mm hook, join new yarn with sl st and Ch5 [5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8]

Row 1 Sc in 2^nd ch from hook and each ch across, sl st into next 2sts on brim of hat, turn.

Row 2 Working in bl only, sc in each st across, turn.

Row 3 Ch1, in bl only, sc in each st, sl st into next 2 sts on brim of hat, turn.

Repeat rows 2 and 3 until you have worked around the entire brim of hat.  Turn hat inside out and sl st a seam to join ribbing.  Fasten off and weave in ends.

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I hope you enjoy the pattern, there are so many charities out there that need hats, I am sure you will find one that is dear to your heart.  If you are joining in with the CAL, don't forget to share your photos with the Facebook group or use #lullabylodge.

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See you all again soon...

Catherine

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