The Kids Cloche crochet hat I made – attempt one
I’d seen the hat photos on facebook a few weeks ago of the beautiful little crochet cloche sun hats and ignored them – too tricky and not right for our current UK climate – you know the ones…..
Then a couple of days ago a good friend challenged me to make one of the cloche hats, one friend I could ignore, then two others pipped up on my facebook timeline saying of course I could make one of these.
I like a challenge (ask my husband about my driving test), so I decided to have a go! A quick phone call to my local haberdashery to ask if they sold such a thing as Mercerized cotton, which they did – so off I set. I got there to find out the cotton they had was completely wrong, but luckily they had a few balls of this wonderful pink colour which should do the job. It’s called Katia Brisa colour 13 ???
Update – The great news is a lovely lady in Australia worked out the pattern.
You can find all the details here ??
So with tiny crochet hooks at the ready (a 2.5mm and 2.0mm), I started.
I followed a video that looked great – until you realise it’s all in Russian! I then tried a youtube video, again, no luck – well this is what I ended up with………..
To watch the videos of the Kids Crochet sun hat in English – click here
I don’t think I have ever started and undone a project so many times in my entire life! But give up I did not… and I very luckily stumbled across this blog – from Louise in Australia …. and she saved my crochet reputation!
All of a sudden I was off – and I got so excited I forgot to take any pictures of the stages (but Louise does this for me)
I was well away – until I got to the brim
Three rows on single crochet on a 2.0mm hook is not kind to the hands!
But then the brim – I read Louise’s instructions, started and stopped, ended up with twice as many stitches as I needed, undid it again, started, and again got it wrong. Louise even gives step by step pictures – but could I manage it – nope!
Then I had a eureka moment. I went back to the original pictures and studied what the brims looked like – then plan B was born.
The brim I have done is a follows straight after the final row of single crochet here
Chain 3, DC in the same stitch, then *FPDC, BPDC* and continue the * * until the end, then each row is the same. I like Louise stopped after 5 rows in total as my fingers hurt.
But this is the effect:
Voila – one Cloche crochet hat made, then as the sun was shining I got my little girl to pose in it outside (not finished but hey)
A couple more edging rows, then the final single crochet all the way round.
Then onto flowers……
The rose I decided on was this one
Leaves – I made up – a cross of, Chain 11, 1SC in the 2nd chain from the hook, then 1HDC, 1DC, 1TC, 1TC, 1DC, 1HDC, 1SC, then slip stitch over to the end, and chain at least 11 more and repeat, then do about 16 chains before the last leaf.
For some other flower patterns – check these out
The bigger leaves follow the above instructions, but when I got the end I turned round and went up the other end of the chain.
>>>For a video tutorial on how to make a leaf – click here
The little blue flowers – were a chain 6, 3DC in the chain furthest from the hook, chain 5, *SS then chain 5, 3DC, chain 5*. Repeat * -* until you’ve got 5 petals and pull tight! Add a couple of buttons and it looks pretty good I think.
Apologies for my daughters grubby face – but here she is showing off her new hat!
I love this photo of her……..
but I think my favourite photo is …….
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