Free Crochet Hat Patterns Just For Baby

I have gathered a selection of my popular, free baby crochet hat patterns and placed them on one page for a quick one stop and view, just for you!

Just find your favorite and click on it's link, that will then take you to the free crochet hat pattern page

Little Fans Down Under-Beanie Babe
Free Crochet Pattern

 The Shy Butterfly-Baby Beanie
Free Crochet Pattern

The Baby Scale
Free Crochet Pattern

Little Wraps-Baby Beanie
Free Crochet Pattern

Little Cluster Beanie Babe Hat 
Free Crochet Pattern

This is my new born grandson wearing the above hat, he weighed 6.6lb, he will get lots of wear out of this hat as you can see.

The Baby Chain-Baby Hat
Free Crochet Pattern 

 Please continue to drop by Cats-Rockin-Crochet for more free crochet patterns, not only for baby, but for the child and adults too!

CROCHET A CUTE SMALL OWL

I love these guys!

They measure about 3 inches and are very quick to make using only small amounts of yarn.

Make some for the Christmas tree, I did.

Enjoy my free pattern!

Some different shapes and sizes made until I got the pattern right!

CROCHET SMALL OWL

Difficulty level, easy

Time, 1 hour

Size approx, 3 inches high

Materials:

3.5 to 4 mm hook

8 ply (DK) yarn, small amounts of all 3 colors

2 small buttons

Sewing needle

Small amount of stuffing (good handful)

St’s used:

Sc

Hdc

Dc

Owl consists of body, 2 wings, 2 eyes and a beak.

First make the body:

When changing colors, LEAVE ALL YARN ATTACHED IT’S MUCH EASIER THIS WAY.

All Rounds are joined with a sl st and ch 1, unless otherwise stated

Beginning at the bottom of the owl and main color A make a magic ring

Row 1, work 6 sc into magic ring, join. (6 sc)

Row 2, work 2 sc’s in each sc, join. (12 sc)

Row 3, *work 1 sc in next sc, work 2 sc’s in next sc,* repeat from *to* to end, join with color B (18 sc)

Row 4, work 1 sc in each st to end, join with color C, (18 sc)

Row 5, work 1 sc in next 2 sc, work 2 sc’s into next sc, * repeat from *to* to end, join with color B (24 sc’s)

Stop increases:

Row 6, work 1 sc in each sc to end, join with color A (24 sc’s)

Row 7, work 1 sc in each sc to end, join with color C (24 sc’s)

Row 8, work 1 sc in each sc to end, join with color B (24 sc’s)

Row 9, work 1 sc in each sc to end, join with color B (24 sc’s)

Row 10, work 1 sc in each sc to end, join with color A (24 sc’s)

Use main color A for the rest of the rounds.

Shaping the head and making the ears:

Row 11,* work 1 sc in each of the next 2 sc’s, work the next 2 sc’s together (dec made)* repeat from *to* to end, join (18 sc’s)

Row 12, 13 and 14, work 1 sc in each sc around, join with a sl st only, (18 sc’s)

Ears:

Row 13, ch 3, work 1 dc into same space as ch 3, work 1 dc into next sc, work 1 hdc into next sc, work 1 sl st in each of the next 4 sc’s,  work 1 hdc into the next sc, work 1 dc into the next sc, work 2 dc’s into the next sc, work 1 dc into the next sc, work 1 hdc into the next sc, work 1 sl st in each of the next 4 sc’s, (2 st’s left), work 1 hdc into the next sc, work 1 dc into the last sc, sl st to the top of the ch 3 space, finish off with a tail to sew across head after stuffing, instructions below.

Wings, 3 rounds only, make 2:

Using main color A make a magic ring, joining the same as previously

Row 1, work 6 sc into magic ring, join. (6 sc)

Row 2, work 2 sc’s in each sc, join with color C (12 sc)

Row 3, *work 1 sc in next sc, work 2 sc’s in next sc,* repeat from *to* to end, sl st to join (18 sc), finish off with a long tail for sewing on wing.

Eyes, 1 round only make 2: pick a color of your choice.

Row 1, work 6 sc into magic ring, sl st to join, finish off leaving a tail for sewing (6 sc)

Construction:

Sew or embroider inner eye choice, sew eyes into place on owl, just under the ears and leave a place between the eyes for sewing in the nose which is the very last step.

Wings can be attached prior to or after stuffing, place just under the decrease row and central to the sides of the owl. Sew top half of the circle only, looks like a little wing. Leave 1 long thread in place to sew in the nose.

 

Stuff your owl, placing small amounts in at a time and making the bottom area slightly larger than the upper body. No need to stuff fully nearest to the ear part as the ears will keep their shape.

Now sew the top of the head closed, I found it neater using the inner loops of the st’s only, back loop only.

Beak sewing:

Now take that long thread you left on the wing and sew it into the body and up to the lower central eye position and come out with the needle and thread. Now go into the upper mid eye section and come back out where you started, do this a few times to get your beak shape.

Sew in and bind off all loose ends, sit back and admire your little owl.

Free pattern courtesy of Cats-Rockin-Crochet. 24/09/2013

You can sell your items from this pattern.

Pattern is not for sale!

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Crochet Happy Hippo and The African Flower Square

Very pleased to finish to my latest crochet project!

You too can make this, it's a $ pattern that can be found here at Heidi Bears site.

The pattern is a 35 page pdf file, it's that many pages because she explains in thorough detail how to make happy, beautiful pictured instructions, graphs and written terms, she has not forgotten a thing!

I thoroughly recommend this pattern to any one who wants to give it a go, I personally can't wait to try her horse and bear :)

Happy was made as a companion for the African Flower Square throw I was asked to make for a family member.

The pattern for the  African Flower Square is a free on line pattern found here.

There was lots of ends to sew in, but I cut this down slightly by making some squares with just the out line of the flower, these can be seen in the photo above, from corner to center to corner.

I wonder who wants one for a Christmas present?

The pattern is repetitive so you soon learn it quickly, more crochet and less reading :)

Hope you enjoyed this post fellow crafters.

Crochet Projects

Just a few projects I have been working on recently.

I've been thinking about destashing, especially the small quantities of left over yarn. This is one project I had success with, I gathered lots of scrap blues and called this scrappy blues. It has several different crochet st's in it too.

 

 

Another scrap project was a cot blanket made for a grand son due in November, it is the C2C crochet pattern, found here.

 

 

I got involved in a granny square swap and these are some of the squares I made, I have a board on pinterest which have the patterns for the squares found here.

 

 I have also made some head bands for custom orders.

 

I have another order for a family member which I am currently making, a small throw made with the African flower square which is so pretty. But we could not resist the happy hippo pattern made with the African flower to go with the throw, the hippo is almost finished too.

 

 

I also made a peppa pig for my grand daughter, she loves peppa pig, when the show finishes on TV she hits the TV screen and cries, so she needs a peppa pig of her own, the free pattern can be found here

 

 

Some coffee cozies

 

A baby hat

Tunisian honey comb st head band

 

Cable crochet head band

 

So I have been busy with my crochet and have many more projects cued up.

This is my place to share with you and also keep my memorable crochet addiction in a place that I can reflect upon.

Thanks for reading, happy crafting. 

 

Cute Crochet

Just a few pictures of what I have been making of late, some cute and cuter!

I've used a hdc in the round in some of these, looks just as good as the sc in the round and works up faster.

I made my own pattern for the cup cakes and doughnuts, using lots of inspiration from other patterns.

These look good enough to eat

Free patterns here

These are made with a hdc, no pattern, I was inspired by other pictures, Duncan on the left and Earl on the right.

There are so many ways to make a crochet coffee or tea cup look so cute!

I also made my very first Kokeshi doll

And some out fits for my Grand daughters

 Good colors and a cute factor = success

For Savannah 1 yr old

Free pattern link

These colors were a shade too dark, but they match Cindy's skin color, pattern from the Candy Tots pattern book

 

 

Crochet Hook Holder

Crochet Hook Holder
see bottom of page for update to this post

for my new crochet hooks

Addi SWING Ergonomic Crochet Hook

The addi swing crochet hook is exactly what it says it is.

Ergonomically friendly.

I posted a little while back about my golfers elbow pain being eased by crocheting, so I thought I would go one step further and buy a better hook, I did purchase a top brand name and was not happy with that, so I went onto do more research and found the addi swing.

This hook has given me more progress of easing the golfers elbow to almost no pain when I cut, wipe or rub.

 It's so comfortable to use, I have a knife grip on my hook, but if you had a pencil hold on your hook it would still be worth the buy with the pen hold as it has a very comfortable hold equal to a pen grip and a groove for your thumb to sit into.

With the knife grip there is a generous amount of length to hold onto your hook and a hook shaft that just glides through your crochet work.

They remind me of holding a tooth brush or nice shaver, the more expensive type's that give you a comfortable hold and grip.

So I had  to make a new holder for my hooks.

1 solid disposable cup

Some yarn and my hook

Start with making a sc circle to fit the bottom of the cup, once it fits the bottom of the cup, stop increases, continue to crochet and your work will grow tall up the sides of your cup

 I increased for the top of the lip for both out side and in side of the cup.

Then I decreased back to the st count the same as the sides of the cup and crocheted it just a little longer so the whole piece will fit snug outside and inside with out any need for glue

The next part I made.

 I made 8 sc in a ring and crocheted in the round for the length desired, this will hold my needles and scissors and I am going to place it around the cup like a 

donut

This is what I had been using for a long time

I sewed the donut around the cup and secured it in only 3 places, this leaves me gaps to slide my scissors and whatnot into

 I had no need to stuff the needle holder as I made it thick by using 2 strands of yarn.

So here she is all finished, simple yet effective

I really missed my old crochet hook organizer, so I gave it a face lift and another dimension, an inner upright hook holder for the addi swing hooks.

I'm so pleased to have her back I missed her convenience, here is a picture of her with her new face lift.

 The tiny buttons are to hold small sewing needles.

 this is the guts of her, so you can see it's easy to stick in pins and hooks!