accidental hat

I've been working on a project to use up all those little bits and bobs of yarn I have lying around. Not the half balls, but all those really tiny lengths that I couldn't quite bring myself to throw out... I had quite a collection!

I am in the 'bag zone' at the moment and my daughter has been begging me to make her something. So I decided to go with a random striped bag using all those leftovers.

Yesterday I was sewing up the bag, when my daughter came over to see what I was up to...

"Is that for me?" she asked

"Yes"

"Can I have a look?"

"Sure"

She picked up the bag, put it on her head and said

"Oh, I love my new snow hat mummy!"

I tried to explain to her that it was actually going to be a bag...

"Don't be a silly mummy" she laughed

So a hat it is... an accidental hat... but she loves it, and it fits, and you can't ask for much more than that!




here's the pattern (if you can call it that)

(fits 2/3 year old)

yarns required

- whatever you have on hand!

- I have used lots if scraps for this one, mostly wool

also

- 3.0 mm crochet hook

- wool needle

let’s begin

ch 41 (the length of this chain will be the height of the hat, including a foldover for the brim… adjust number of chain if desired)

row 1 – sc into 2^nd chain from hook, sc to end (40)

fasten off yarn

turn work and join on new colour

row 2 – ch 1, sc in every stitch to end (40)

fasten off yarn

turn work and join on new colour

continue working rows of random colours until work measures circumference of head plus 2 cm

(you might like to refer to the standard head size chart here)

seam to join the starting and finishing rows

lay hat flat, with the seam in the desired position ( I prefer centre back)

tie together the ends at the top of the hat… this creates the tassel and joins the top at the same time

trim tassels to 3cm

fold over brim

sew in all remaining ends