Crochet summer hats

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

You can talk endlessly about how beautiful crocheted summer hats look. Moreover, there are so many models of the product that everyone can find to their liking. There are options for both women and children, and for men. However, it is not always possible for beginner knitters to understand the technology. Therefore, we have prepared this article. It provides detailed and step-by-step instructions for bringing an idea to life.

How to identify the perfect tool

Professional needlewomen often say that those who managed to choose a good tool, crocheting a summer hat or other thing brings much more pleasure.

All because the work is moving quickly and easily, but the quality is good. However, it is difficult for beginners not to get lost in the abundance of tools. Therefore, we suggest focusing on standard criteria:

• material - metal;
• length - comfortable for the hand (the hook should lie well in the palm of your hand);
• appearance - absencechips, "burrs", roughness;
• size - one and a half to two times thicker thread.

How to choose the right yarn

There can be no strict recommendations regarding this parameter. Therefore, the needlewoman has the right to purchase any knitting thread. However, professionals recommend purchasing cotton or linen yarn to crochet a summer hat. The reason is quite clear: other types are more suitable for warm products. Therefore, we leave them for autumn-winter things. You can choose the color of the yarn, focusing on your taste. The only important thing to consider is the pattern. On motley yarn, various textures will not be visible, which means it is better to use a plain one. And vice versa.

In addition, it should be noted that knitting threads for summer hats are much thinner than those that needlewomen usually use. Therefore, working with them can be inconvenient. But this is only at the beginning, and then things will go easier and faster.

Building a pattern

Experienced needlewomen recommend that beginners sketch their idea on a piece of paper. This will help to think through all the important nuances of the work and, accordingly, avoid possible mistakes. Therefore, we take a notebook and a pen, and then we draw the style of our cap. Next we indicate all the important parameters:

• head circumference;
• accessory height;
• field width, if any.

And for crocheting a summer hat, you must specify the dimensions of the product first in centimeters, and then in loops and rows. We will introduce the reader to the translation technology a little later.

Measuring

To knit a product that fits exactly in size, you should not use the standard parameters. It is better to determine the necessary ones yourself. To do this, we invite a model on which we will crochet a summer hat, prepare a centimeter tape and a pattern.

After that we measure the following parameters:

1. Head circumference. It is determined by placing a measuring tape horizontally just above the eyebrows.
2. The height of the accessory. Measure the distance from the base of one ear to a similar point on the other side. In this case, the centimeter tape passes through the crown. The final value must be divided by two and only then recorded on the pattern.
3. The width of the margins (if any) is measured from the forehead to the intended edge of the product. There is no minimum or maximum width. But with the definition of the latter, one must be careful. So that the fields do not hang and do not block the view, they will have to be starched. However, too wide and it won't help. In this case, it is required to prepare a special frame - a plastic circle. It can be purchased at a craft store. In extreme cases, it is permissible to use a thin wire. But such a product may not be safe for children.

How to convert centimeters to the desired units of measurement

When crocheting an adult or children's summer hat, the needlewoman takes into account loops and rows. For this reason, at the preparatory stage, it is required to calculate them. It's very easy to do this:

1. Knit a patternthe selected pattern is a square with a side of ten centimeters.
2. Count the number of loops and rows in it.
3. Divide head circumference by 10.
4. Multiply the resulting value by the number of loops in the sample.
5. Similarly, we calculate the parameters for the height of the accessory and the width of the fields.
6. Divide each value by 10.
7. Two new numbers are multiplied by the number of rows in the pattern.
8. We must fix all found parameters on our pattern.

Main part

The technology of making a crochet summer hat for a woman, a man or a child starts the same way. Therefore, having mastered the technology described below, you can safely take on any such product. So, so that the reader does not get confused in his actions, we offer instructions:

1. First of all, we knit a chain, the number of loops in which we previously calculated for the girth of the head.
2. Close it into a ring, that is, connect the first and last loop.
3. Then we knit, moving in a circle. We do not add or subtract anything.
4. You can do single crochets.
5. At the beginning of each row, it is important to go up one loop. To knit not in a spiral, but in a circle.
6. We advance until 15-20 rows remain until the end of the product.
7. Then we start decreasing loops. To do this, we divide their total number by the remaining rows. We distribute the extra loops evenly in each row. And we remove them by knitting two adjacent columns together.
8. Finishing the upper part in this wayproducts, break the thread and fasten from the wrong side.

In principle, the needlewoman, after completing the steps indicated in the description of the summer hat, the hook can postpone and finish knitting. Because such options for accessories are also considered very popular. They are especially common in children's models.

How to knit a brim hat

The main part of the hat is knitted according to the instructions described above. Then you should make mathematical calculations:

1. Divide the circumference of the head by 3, 14.
2. Round the resulting number.
3. Add 2 margins to it.
4. Multiply the new value by 3, 14.
5. Also round to integer.
6. So we will know how many loops should be at the end of knitting.
7. Subtract from them those that are equal to the circumference of the head. We need to add them to get beautiful fields of the desired width.
8. The final number is divided by the width of the fields in the rows.
9. As a result, we will find out how many loops you need to add in each row.

Having de alt with the calculations, we start knitting. We also form a part, moving in a circle. We add loops evenly. For readers who are more familiar with the diagram, an image is provided below.

Here we figured out how crocheted summer hats are made. The technology is available not only to professional needlewomen, but also to beginners. Therefore, you can safely select suitable products for yourself and proceed to its implementation. The main thing is not to quitwork if something goes wrong.