Fast & Easy crocheted summer hat with brim

Material: I used two skeins of Phildar White Cotton Akala n.4, some leftovers of green cotton, worked double.
Crochet hook: US F5/ 3.75 mm
Gauge: 14 dc - 9 rows in 4''/10 cm
Techniques: Single Crochet (sc), Half double corchet (hdc), Double crochet (dc), Slip Stitch (sl st)



-Chain 5, join with sl st to form a ring.

Round 1: Ch 1, 10 sc in ring, join with sl st on top of ch.

Round 2: Ch 1, 2 sc in each sc. Join. Total: 20 sc.

Round 3: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 2 dc in next sc, *1 dc in next sc, 2 dc in next sc*. Repeat **. Join. Tot. 30 dc.

Round 4: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in next dc, *2 dc in next dc, 1 dc in next 2 dc*. Repeat **. Join. Tot 40 dc

Round 5: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in next 2 dc, *2 dc in next dc, 1 dc in next 3 dc*. Repeat **. Join. Tot 50 dc

Round 6: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in next 3 dc, *2 dc in next dc, 1 dc in next 4 dc*. Repeat **. Join. Tot 60 dc

Round 7: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in next 4 dc, *2 dc in next dc 1 dc in next 5 dc*. Repeat **. Join. Tot 70 dc

Rounds 8-15: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in each dc around. Join.

Round 16: With contrasting color: Ch 1, Hdc all around. Join.

Brim

Round 17: (this round is inspired by this pattern) - Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc the next 2 dc, 2 dc in next dc, ch 1, skip 1 st* 2 dc in next dc, 1 dc in each of next 2 dc, 2 dc in next dc, ch 1, skip 1*. Repeat **. join. Tot 98 sts.

Rounds 18-19: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in each of the next 5 dc, ch 1, *1 dc in each of the next 6 dc, ch 1*. Repeat **. Join. (If you don't want to count, just make all dc, and ch 1 every time you have a ch-1 sp in the row before).

Round 20: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in each of the next 4 dc, 2 dc in next dc, ch 1, *2 dc in next dc, 1 dc in each of the next 4 dc, 2 dc in next dc, ch 1*. Repeat **. Join.

Round 21: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc in each of the next 7 dc, ch 1, *1 dc in each of the next 8 dc, ch 1*. Repeat **. Join.

Finish.

Brim variant for guys:

Round 17: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, 1 dc the next 2 dc, 2 dc in next dc, * 2 dc in next dc, 1 dc in each of next 2 dc, 2 dc in next dc*. Repeat **. Join.

Round 18: Ch 2, 1 dc in same st, dc around. Join.

Finish.

Crocheting a bit

Manos del Uruguay

Have somone of you ever tried it? Is it soft? I found this amazing pattern on Sheep in The City, and I'd love to make the scarf but the wool is pretty expensive and I'm not sure it's worth...

Can someone give me a hint?

Visual DNA

A very funny tool :-)

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Happy Birthday Kitties!

Today is my kitties' b-day! They turn four and still no wrinkles ;-)



Happy Birthday Perny and Guny! =^.^= =^.^=

Coming soon

My sister finished coasters + progressing with the Polar blanket...
Right now my camera is not working, but I'll post new pics ASAP!

Crocheting with Valda

Today even Valda the Dog wanted to learn how crochet, so she sat on my sister's belly and watched her very carefully. Who knows if she actually got the basics of crocheting... Sure it is my sis almost crocheted the dog's hair onto her coaster!

Check out the comic I made on our Easter Brunch :-)

Happy Easter!

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My sister's first project

Yesterday was a great day, I went back on crocheting and my sister started and completed her first crochet project ever!
After seeing the season finale of "Prison Break" on Monday, my sister and I realized that we had finished almost all our favorite series and there wasn't much left for us to watch on tv. So we had to find something else to do at night!! And besides that, yesterday evening, we also had a black out in our building, so even if we wanted to we could not get much tv anyway.

When when my sis came home, I was already crocheting this blanket I decided to make the very same afternoon. Maybe because there was no tv, or maybe because crochet is contagious, she asked me to show her how to make something. "Nothing easier!", I told her and I went directly to my stash, grabbed a skein of yarn, a crochet hook and the "Cozy Crochet Kit" with some project to make her decide what to start with.

We picked up together a nice coaster project worked in rounds. I think that working in rounds is the better and easier way to approach crochet. I remember when I started, the most difficult thing was completing a foundation row from the chain. Making the chain is always easy and funny, but work your way through it, when you are a beginner (so probably you made your chain too tight) can be really tricky. So, I made her start with the coaster, worked in rounds in double chains, and in NO TIME, she made it!!

Here it is, isn't it great? I wish I made such a nice and neat project the first time I touched a hook. I am very proud of her, and tonight, who cares if there's nothing on tv, we'll crochet a whole coaster set! ;-)