Beanies & Hats Crochet Patterns
Fourteen hat patterns, and between them they cover almost every way a crocheted hat can be built: bottom-up from a flat ribbed brim, top-down from a crown, or worked in the round with the brim added last. Most are intermediate, not because the stitches are hard but because hats need a stitch count kept around the whole round.
Sizing is the part people get wrong, so the patterns handle it two ways. The Cypress Beanie gives three sizes (toddler, child, adult) with the brim row count for each. Others, like the Top Down Meadow Beanie, are built crown-first so you can try the hat on as you go and stop when the depth is right. If you are making for someone whose head you cannot measure, the top-down construction is the safer bet.
Most of these take one skein of worsted and a single evening once you are comfortable with the stitch. Bobble and cluster puff hats eat more yarn than they look like they will, because both stitches double back on themselves - budget about 20% more than a plain double crochet hat.
Hats are the highest price-per-hour item in the shop if you sell at markets. Work out your number with the pricing calculator before you set it.
Useful while you make these: the round loom hat size calculator for head circumference by age, the increase and decrease calculator for spacing the crown decreases, and the yarn calculator for how many skeins to buy.
