Thursday, January 14, 2010

Why 310 Hats, or "E2, What have you gotten yourself into this time??"

Yesterday I was at Church waiting for two of my kids to rehearse with the choir. Along came a friend who asked what I was stitching. (I was working on the very stubborn Doodle Hat.) I said, "Oh this? It's one of the 310 Hats." (I said it as if every one on the planet knows about the 310 Hats project. Ha! I tend to forget what I've told to whom. Good thing I tell the truth or my life would be REALLY complicated!) My friend exclaimed incredulously, "Three Hundred Ten Hats?! What HAVE you gotten yourself into this time!?" So I told her the full story of the 310 Hats. I realize I haven't typed the story of the 310 Hats. [I'm kind of hoping E1, my sister and the instigator of this endeavor, will type the story and send it in the email so I can just copy and paste. (HINT HINT!)]

The SHORT story of why we're doing 310 Hats is here: click for short story

Those are last year's hats and last year's kids.

Now you can see why we want to do more!

On my needles and hooks:
- darn in the ends of the ribbed head wrap
- finish the stubborn doodle hat
- a pink Silenzio hat with a pretty Old Shale border

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Crochet Basic Roll-Brimmed Hat

From 310 Hats


Worsted weight yarn
I hook (5 mm)
Marker


  • Chain 2
  • 6 sc in 2nd chain from hook. Place marker in last stitch.
  • 2 sc in each sc (12). Move marker.
  • (1 sc in first stitch, 2 sc in next stitch), repeat around (18 sc). Move marker.
  • (2 sc in each of first 2 sts, 2 sc in next stitch), repeat around (24 sc). Move marker.
  • (3 sc in ea of first 3 sts, 2 sc in next stitch), repeat around (30 sc). Move marker.
  • Continue in this manner for 13 or 14 rounds (increasing the number of scs before the increase by 1 each round) until your radius is about 3", diameter about 6", and circumference about 18". (78 scs or 84 scs). This should make a nice flat disc, which is the hat top.
  • Work even without increasing. It will start making a bowl shape. Continue even until the depth is about 6". It needs to be long enough and and big enough around to cover a Kindergarten-age child's head and ears.
  • To create a rolled brim, increase the stitches by 50%: (1 sc, 2 sc in next stitch) repeat around.
  • Work a few rounds even.
  • Slip stitch around to give a nice tight, neat edge.
  • Cut yarn. Work in ends.
  • If the hat is too "airy", you can weave colored yarns through the stitch spaces. Colored yarns will be very decorative.

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