Pauline Hat

Hi, everybody. Welcome to our live crochet event. I am Brenda KB Anderson and today I am excited to share with you this design of the Pauline hat. This is what it looks like. It's a very sweet hat. It's got this um really nice button band on the bottom that has um some horizontal texture. It actually really does button and unbutton here. Check that out just for fun. It looks very authentic because it actually works. Um And then it has a nice kind of textured stitch pattern up top. It's not, I wouldn't exactly call this a lace pattern, but there is a little bit of space between your stitches. So I would call this. Um, it, well, because I live here in Minnesota, it's very cold. I would not call this a winter hat. I would call this more of like a, a late fall, early spring spring kind of hat. It is warm but the wind is going to blow through those holes between your stitches a little bit. So maybe in other parts of the world, this could be your winter hat. Um But here it's more like signs of spring type of hat to me anyway, so we're gonna be working up this hat. I'll be leading you through the whole process. Um And you can go ahead and download the free pattern called the Pauline hat. Uh The link is in the description so you can follow along that link will still be there later. If you wanna watch this later, you can watch it later as well. Um So you'll have access to this at any point. All right. So, um, in order to make this hat, of course, you're gonna need some yarn for this project, you need between two and three skeins of what it's like in between a worsted weight and a decay weight. In my opinion, the, the yarn that I'm gonna be demonstrating with today, this is technically a worsted weight. That's what it's called on the label. Um And then the yarn that I used for this example here, this was actually a decay weight also sometimes called a worsted weight. But, um, so anything between a number three and a number four. And so if you think about it, it would be like a heavier number three or a thinner number four just to give you an idea. All right. So you're gonna need, let me just take a look. This is, well, it's size for five different sizes from child to extra large adult. So you'll need anywhere between 100 and 85 yards to 235 yards just depending on the size that you're working up. So you'll need your yarn, you'll need two different hooks, one hook that's a little bit smaller is gonna be used for this ribbed band here. Um, for a little bit of a tighter gauge. So I am gonna be using an F hook, which is a 3.75 millimeter hook. Um, but you will use whatever size you need to in order to get the proper gauge and we'll talk about getting gauge in just a little bit. Um And then you're going to be needing a slightly larger hook. This is like two steps up. Um an H hook five millimeter um Hook was what I used for the top of the hat, the body of the hat, like the main section of the hat. Um So let's, and then, oh and then you're gonna need three stitch markers. And so I actually refer to these stitch markers by their color in the pattern and also in the chart. So if you don't happen to have a green stitch marker or a red stitch marker and an orange stitch marker, that's totally fine. You can just use whatever stitch marker you have, but put like a little, maybe a piece of yarn on it or a little piece of tape on the, the locking part of the stitch marker, the.in the color that it is so that you don't get confused. Um But I am going to be referring to these markers by their color. So you'll need to have something that you can put on your project and know that it. Oh, that's the red stitch marker. Even if it isn't really a red stitch marker. OK. So you have to figure that part out if you don't already have um markers in that color stitch markers in that color. Um And then you'll just need a yarn needle to weave in your ends. So, oh, and a button, I should say this button. Let me just check here. This is a one and a quarter inch or a 32 millimeter inch button. Um, and you can use either a button with a shank, which is the style button that I've been using for this hat. It's that a shank just means it has um, this piece on the back that you can sew through, but you don't see the thread on the front side or you can use a shank this button as well where you have like a larger button and the holes that are that, you know that where you sew directly through, um, the top of the button, it doesn't matter which type you use. Um And then later on when we're finishing up our hat, I'm gonna be demonstrating a little, um, sort of a little the process that I use for blocking this type of hat, which is, I use a balloon and then a spray bottle with water and a coffee mug. So those are optional things. If you already kind of have an idea of how you want to block your piece, you definitely do not need to block it the way that I do. Um That's totally fine, but, um, you know, it's just kind of optional materials if you wanted to block it in the same way that I do. All right. And blocking just means you're gonna be shaping your hat at the end of the process just to make all your stitches kind of even out and it hangs nicely on your head. All right. So, um this is a live event, of course. And so I love it when you guys are active in the chat and when you say hello, um looks like we already have some questions. Let's see. Oh OK. Oh This might have happened before this event. Where did you get that crochet hook? Barbara had asked that I'm guessing it was the crochet hook in the picture. Let me just see what hook I had in the picture. Oh, this hook. OK. So the main photo which I think it, well, it's at the end of your pa pattern. There is a photo of and I think it might be on the website as well, possibly. Um It's like a wooden handle and then it has like a little section of this kind of glittery resin. And then another wooden section I found that on Etsy there. If you search on Etsy for handmade hooks or hand carved hook, hand carved hooks. There's all kinds of really cool crochet hooks. So, um, let's see. And Elaine is saying she's an inexperienced crochet person. Ok. Well, can, ok. And, and she's wondering if I can help her learn how to begin to crochet. So today, we're not gonna be learning the very basics of crochet. But, um, you know, there are other resources on the creative Crochet corner. There is a 14 day learn to crochet um series that I teach where you can learn how to crochet and that's completely free. So if you're interested in that, um I would check that out, but of course, you're welcome to watch this and, you know, you can always re-watch things over and over until it makes sense to you. So, um hopefully that will help out a little bit. All right. So, and Jean is saying hi, hi, hi to me. Hi, Jean. Hello. Um And Debbie is saying hi from Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania. Hi. Hi, Debbie. Welcome. Thanks you guys. I'm glad you guys are here. Ok. So we are going to start out this pattern. Um When we're working on this project, we start out by making the Hat band first. So that's the section right here. And I'm gonna show you what that looks like when we get the hat band done just so you have kind of an idea of where we're going with this. So this piece here is very, a very long strip and then there's a little button hole at one end of it. So it's gonna come around and button right on top of that other end there. So that's what, that's what we're going to be making first. Um And in order to make this, this is actually made in the round and we're going to start with a foundation chain that goes almost the whole length of this piece. And then we're gonna work around that foundation chain. And if that sounds crazy to you, that's OK because I'm gonna show you how to do it. Um But basically, what we're doing is we're making an oval first, we work across our foundation chain on one side of the chain and then we're gonna turn our work 100 and 80 degrees and work across the opposite side. All right. And so because this is so long and I, I know you don't want to watch me make all these single crochets in the middle. What I'm going to do is I'm going to create a very short hat band just for this demonstration part for the beginning. Um Just so that you can see the process and how all the stitches work are worked on the two ends. The section that I am not gonna crochet up is, you know, just imagine that that is the middle section here. Like if we just pull this together like that, this is what I'm going to be making, just kind of a shorter version of this band. All right. So, depending on the size you're making, you are going to begin. Well, first of all, you're gonna begin with the smaller of the two hooks. Um, and, and actually let me talk about gauge just for a second here first. So normally when, when we make a gauge swatch, we work up our hat or whatever we're working in the stitch pattern that covers the most, um, the biggest part of our project. Ok. So we would use that stitch pattern. We'd swatch it up and then we would compare the swatch that we get compared to what I, what I got for my, you know, in my pattern. And so that way you'll know if your swatch ends up bigger, then you, you need to go down a hook size or two hook sizes to match my gauge. If your swatch ends up smaller, then you have to go up a hook size or two to get the same gauge. Otherwise your hat is not gonna turn out the size that you think it's going to turn out even if you're using, you know, even if you're following the directions for that certain size. So, um, but because this hat has some kind of, you know, it's this long skinny band, we're not going to be crocheting up. Well, you, you can actually crochet up a gauge swatch of this if you want to. But I just begin by working the hat band and then checking the fit of the hat band. And then I continue switching to this fabric here and then I just sort of monitor the size of that fabric and how it looks compared to the hat band. So if you get the hat band to be the right size, you know, it's gonna fit your head, you can even try the hat band on. Um, then you're good. And then once you begin working up this stitch pattern, you can just make sure that it's just ever so slightly larger than the hat band, um, width wise here and then you should be fine. So if you're a person who really, really likes to make the gauge swatch to know exactly, you know, decide all that stuff ahead of time. That's completely fine in the pattern. There are directions for making a gauge watch, um, for both of the patterns. So you can certainly do that. So if you're a person who does not like making gau swatches, in my opinion, it is ok to just start on the hat band because it's not really that big of a surface area that you're crocheting up. It's just a long skinny strip and then you'll know exactly what size that's going to be. You can try it on your head, make sure that it's the right size that you want it to be. And then move forward. So basically your half band is going to serve as your gauge swatch as you're working it up. All right. So depending on the size that you are working up, you are either going to, oh, here, let me just turn the page. Ok. Um, you're either going to chain 92 98 100 and 4, 100 and 10 and 100 or 100 and 16 stitches. So these numbers here, those are gonna correspond to all the different sizes. So if, for example, you're working up the adult small size that would be found right here for 98 stitches, you would chain 98 stitches. And the reason I know that is because if you go back to the section where the sizes are listed, so there's listed right here, hat size for child. And then in parentheses, it says adult small, adult, medium, adult large, adult, extra large. So in those parentheses, where your sizes that you're making wherever that lays in the par within the parentheses or in front of the parentheses, that's where your set of directions is going to be throughout the rest of the pattern. OK. So they correspond to each other. Um I also just wanted to make a quick note here that if you're having trouble figuring out your size, there is some information here about what size, you know, the hat actually ends up measuring, um you know, for each size and also the pattern is letting you know you should have, the hat band should be an inch or two inches up to two inches smaller than your head measurement. So that's how you can figure out your hat size. If you're able to measure your own head, you can just take a look at what size whatever size is listed here, that is an inch or two inches smaller than your head measurement. Ok. So back to our chain, we're gonna chain um, 98 stitches if we were making the adult small, which is what I'm going to be demonstrating later. But right now I'm just making a very shortened version of the hat band. So, um you'll chain however many stitches you need to for your size and then we are not gonna join even though we're gonna be working in the round. So what we're going to do is we're gonna start with stitch number nine. So the ninth chain from the hook and then we're going to work into the bottom of our chain and then we're going to work across the bottom of our chain. So what that means when you look at our chain, there's all these little vs kind of going in this direction and we are going to begin by working into the ninth chain. So this is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th chain, but we're gonna work into the bottom of it. So let's roll that over and now you can see all of these little horizontal dashes. That's where we're going to be working when we work across this chain to begin with here. Let's count one more time here just to make sure. Um So there's the first horizontal dash, that's the first chain, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th, the ninth one would be right there. So we're going to place our hook underneath that little um horizontal dash. That's gonna be where our first stitch is. I'm gonna put my thumb right next to it. So I don't lose it. So to do a single crochet, we insert yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through two. OK? So that is our first stitch. So you should have eight chains here that are not connected to anything. They're just open here. 12345678. And now we are gonna work single crochets all the way across into the bottom of our chain. OK? So just one single crochet into each of these horizontal dashes across the bottom of our chain. It looks like we have a couple more. Hellos. We've got um Renee saying, how do you from Montgomery, Texas. Howdy Renee and Sophia is saying hello from Barcelona Spain. Hello. Thank you for joining us. Um oh and Pauline is joining us and saying I will, I will have to make this just because it has my name. Yes, I actually named this hat after my great grandmother who was, she was like one of my first memories of somebody crocheting. She crocheted a lot. She and my mom would, when we would go to visit her at her house, they would talk about crochet a lot. So, um, I associate crochet very much with her and plus it's a beautiful name. Um, and then Darlene is saying hi from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm a long time crochet and I always look forward to learning something new. Awesome. Well, we are so happy you're here, Darlene. Ok. So we're just continuing working across that first chain, right? So we're working into the bottom of each of those chains all the way across. So you're gonna have a much longer strip of fabric than I do because it's gonna reach all the way around your head. And so far, um, you didn't, you aren't able to try anything on quite yet because, um, we, we need to have at least one row and my process for figuring out if the hat band is going to be the right size. I checked it after every single row just to kind of monitor where we were going because even though your gauge does change, you know, after you work one row or even more than one row, your, your gauge starts to kind of even out or change a little bit as you work. And that's why you can't just like make one little chain of, you know, 12 stitches and be like, oh, my stitches are going to be this wide. Ok. Um, you have to work up a block of fabric really to know what your gauge is going to be. But you, you, you can have sort of an idea if it's going to be way off even by the first row across. So I always, you know, once I do that first row I kind of assess and think, OK, is this, is this even close knowing that it could get a little smaller or a little larger as you work, you know, successive rows um onto that row, but just, you know, just something to keep in mind. All right. So we have worked all the way across the our entire foundation chain, right? Since we made that little loop worked all the way across. And so at this point, if you have not already checked your gauge, you can take this loop and make it into a loop around your head and where the very end of the loop is. So right here, that loop, the very end of it, that's where the button is going to be sitting right in there, not on this side, not in the middle, but like all the way over to the side that should match up with that very end stitch there that you made. So those two I know this is super tiny and kind of ridiculous. This is for really a doll at this point. But you can loop your, you know, your larger chain that you have and just look at it and see, oh, that's gonna be way off or? Oh, that's gonna be, you know, way too big, way too small or maybe that'll be ok. If it's like an inch or two off, just keep going on the next round just to be sure before you rip it out. Unless you already have an inkling, then trust your gut. I'm a big believer in trusting your gut when you're crocheting. Ok. So now on round two, this, so we've just crocheted across here, let me straighten this out. So you can see we've just crocheted across and now we're gonna work our way across this side of the chain. Ok. So we're gonna rotate this piece like we're turning a steering wheel. We're not, we're not gonna see the other side of the fabric. We're just gonna turn it upside down like this and then we're gonna start working into those stitches across this edge here. And if you are a chart person, I did chart this whole thing out so that you could, you could follow along, um, just visually here and, and I mean, I if you don't really like reading all the words, you can figure out the hap angels from this chart. Um But all of the words will be telling you exactly what to do. So, um, especially like where we add stitch markers and things like that. So it's best to kind of look at both things if you can. So here we have worked across, let's see. Um This is where we started. So we did our foundation chain here and then we worked our first row across here and see that green little plus sign. That means we're supposed to put a green stitch marker there. I forgot to mention that. So we're gonna put that right around the post of our stitch. So the post is just basically the front of the stitch not into the top of the stitch because later we're gonna work into the top of the stitch and this will be in the way if we do that. So there's our green stitch marker and we have rotated our work so we can work around the other side working on that other edge of the foundation chain. And we're going to work only underneath the back loop of the stitches across. So what I mean by the back loop is, let's see, make sure I don't lose that loop there. Um When you take a look here, you see those little vs again, you're gonna place your hook underneath the back section of that V, not underneath both. This is where we would normally stitch right here so that you're stitching under both legs of the V, we're just going to be working underneath that back loop only. OK. So that for the first stitch, we're gonna place two single crochets into the back loop there. So one, let me move that to the side there and two, then the next stitch we're going to be placing two single crochet, stitches into that back loop. So again, underneath that back strand, we're making one single crochet and two single crochets. And now after we've done our, those are called increases when we put more than one stitch into a stitch, um because we're increasing the stitch count. So now we're gonna work across all the way over to this button loop. So before we get to the button loop, we're gonna be placing one stitch into each stitch across and continuing just to work underneath that back loop. So just the back, the back part of the stitch and we're just making those single crochet stitches all the way across. And this part right here is probably the trickiest part because it's part of your foundation chain and it, it might get a little tight or a little tricky to get your hook in there at first. Um So give yourself a little patience. It is going to get easier after this first pass. It is just a little bit, you know, more fiddly. I really like any, any time you're working into a foundation chain, it's always just a little more fiddly than when you, once you get going. Let's see. Oh Marine is saying hello from Maryland and Jeanette. Is saying, I'm Jeanette from Northeast Ohio. Looking forward to this project. Awesome. I'm happy that you're here. And Lyne is saying, trust your gut and don't let it smell your fear. Yes. True. That, uh, yep, you just have to go forward or, I mean, what's the worst thing that's gonna happen in crochet? Right? You have to rip it out. But, but the great thing is that yarn is always reusable. I mean, almost always. Sometimes it gets very um shredding or a little too pilly and fuzzy, but most of the time you can rip it out and reuse it. OK. So we have made it almost all the way to our little button loop. Just oops, I kind of split my e in there. There we go. OK? And so I've got one more stitch left. See, there's just one stitch left there to work into the bottom of. And now we have those eight stitches in that loop. So when we get to those eight stitches, we're gonna be placing t um let's see, 12 single crochets into that loop. So we're just crocheting into that loop as though we were working into a stitch. So we're just gonna put our hook right into that loop. That would be one single crochet two, three, four, 56. And when you've placed, when you've worked six, you should be about halfway around your loop and you can always kind of shift those over or spread them out. Um You know, you can adjust those as you go. So when we work the seventh loop, we're gonna be placing a stitch marker into that into that stitch. So here is my seventh single crochet rather sorry, not loop. There's seventh single crochet gets the orange stitch marker and then we continue eight, nine oops 10, 11 and 12. And now we are going to continue working across into that back loop until there are two stitches left before our beginning stitch marker. Oh, I forgot to place the beginning stitch marker. You guys. So the very first stitch we did of this is called round two. When we did those two single crochets into one stitch. I was supposed to place a red stitch marker into that stitch and I forgot. So the very first stitch of this round gets the red stitch mark. I know it's right next to that green stitch, but it'll get easier as we keep stitching. OK. So after we've worked into that button loop, we placed our orange stitch marker. We continued working in a single crochet into the back loop of each stitch across here, we're gonna keep going until there are only two stitches left before that red marker. So two stitches left in the round. And I know this seems like a lot of stitch markers, but it just really helps to keep you from getting confused about what side of the button band you're working and where to put those increases that we're making. Um, so that way you don't have to count all of your stitches because that's, even though the stitch counts are actually in the instructions, it is, um, I don't know, it's really easy to get confused about what side of the, what side of the oval you're on and where you put those, um, increases unless you have stitch markers put in there. So, if you're one of those people who's like, oh, I never use stitch markers, I can just remember that I would say for this project, just humor me and use them because even though I made up this pattern, every time I make this button band when I try to do that and get away with no stitch markers, I am always sorry. All right. So here we have two stitches left before the red marker and we're going to put an increase in each of those stitches. So that means two, single crochet is working through that back loop only into each of those stitches. So there's one and two in the first stitch and here's the second stitch, one and two in the second stitch. OK. So we worked all the way around. Uh that's called round two. And then we are going to remove the red stitch marker just for a minute and then we're gonna begin our next round, which would be round three. So we're gonna work a single crochet into that first stitch, just the back loop. That's what we're gonna basically doing throughout the rest of this. Um the hat band as we're working through that back loop only. So we did one stitch there and then we're gonna do two stitches in the next stitch. One and two again, just working through the back loop. One stitch in the next stitch and two stitches into the following stitch one and two Renee is wondering would it be OK to use a chain single crochet foundation row? I think so. Um I'm trying to remember what the bottom edge of that is. It might if you have are there, I think there are two loops like a V on the bottom because you just want to end up um having having that extra front loop to leave out in the front to leave that chain across. But I'm pretty sure that that would work because I think that the, that the bottom of the foundation row also looks like a V but you guys can correct me if I'm wrong about that. I don't use the um the Chinless single foundation row very often because um in my, in my patterns that I'm using to instruct because I feel like, you know, some people know about it, some people don't, the people who don't know about it might just kind of skip over the pattern and be like, well, I don't know how to start that pattern. So I don't really want to make it. So, so that's why I avoid it. Um, but I should really do a little tutorial on that and brush up on that. So, I, it's been a while since I've used that. Um, and Ramona saying good morning from Alaska. Uh K Kosub. I'm not really sure how to say it. I'm sorry if I'm butchering your town's name. Um, Loreen is saying good morning from Connecticut and Jeannie saying good morning from West Virginia and Felicia from North Carolina. Hi, you guys. Thank you so much for saying hello. All right. So now that we've worked since the beginning of round three, we worked one single crochet. Then we worked two single crochets in the next stitch. Then we worked one single crochet. Then we worked two single crochets in the next stitch. And after that, we're just going to continue working all the way across until a few stitches before the orange marker. So we're going to just work those single crochets into that back loop all the way across until we have, let's see, four stitches left before our orange stitch marker. So, working through the back loop here, this allows your piece to have just a little bit of extra stretch, which is nice in the hat band. But also it gives it that really pretty horizontal, like all those lines that come across, it just is kind of a nice texture to have there in the hat band. I really wanted to have, you know, two very distinct textures in the hat, one in the hat band and then one for the body of the hat. So I just went for this um working in the back loop only. All right, we are almost to, to the end here. We're just going to be crocheting, working into that back loop until there's four stitches left. Let's count 12345. So I'll work one more and now we have four stitches left before that orange marker. So we're gonna do two stitches in the next stitch. One and two and then one stitch in the following one and then two in the next one and two and then one in the following. Just one. OK? And now we can remove our orange stitch marker for a second while we um start working around the other side and we're gonna start out with one stitch into the marked stitch right there. We're gonna replace our marked stitch and then we're going to do two single crochets into the following stitch, one and two and then one stitch into the next stitch and then two single crochets into the following stitch. One and two. All right. And now we are going to work our way all the way across until we are until we have four stitches left before the red marker. So we're just doing those single crochets through the back loop. And Trudy is saying that she loves the use of the button on this pattern. She, I have so many of my mom's buttons in this pattern. It was a great way to use her buttons and hats for the generation of grandkids who never got to meet her. All that is so awesome. I love that so much. Absolutely. Yeah. It's kind of like a nice hat pattern for showcasing like the one really special button that you have. Maybe you just have one button that doesn't, you know, you don't have any mates for the button. This is like the perfect, perfect little showcase for your special button and Jody saying good morning and um you are welcome. I am excited to show this hat to all of you guys. I'm glad that glad that you're here, Jody. OK. OK. I am almost at the opposite end here. We just got about a few more stitches left before. Remember we have to stop with four stitches left before that red marker. So the red marker marks the beginnings of our rounds. The orange marker is like the halfway point and it's really a pattern repeat so that we can kind of do one half of the, the pattern on one side and then repeat that across the other side of the button band. All right. So we have 1234 and five. I'll do one more stitch here. Now we have four left and we're gonna do two single crochets into the next one into the following two crochets into the next stitch and one into the following stitch. And we have reached our red marker, which means we've reached the end of round three. So now we have one more round, round four. I'm gonna remove my marker and we're gonna start this out with two stitches. One stitch into the next stitch and one stitch into the following stitch. Oh, I have a little knot there. We're just gonna ignore it just because this is not actually going to be a real hat. If this was a real hat, I would do something about that, but we're just gonna crochet over it. All right. So let's see. Let me get on the right page page. So I remember to tell you when to move our markers. OK. So we have two single crochets in a row just working one into each of the next two stitches. I should say. Then we're gonna do an increase. So we're gonna make two single crochets into this stitch right here. Then we're gonna do another single crochet in the next stitch, another single crochet into the following stitch and then we're gonna do another increase. So that means we have two single crochets under the following stitch. So just to recap here on round number four starts out with one single crochet into each of the next two stitches, then an increase and then one single crochet into each of the next two stitches and then an increase and then we're gonna cro single crochet across until there are six stitches left before the orange marker. And so this is the last round that we're gonna be doing on our button band. And just so you know, this round is kind of incomplete. So something happens at the very end of this round um where we join the, the button band up into a loop. So round number four is starts off pretty similar to round number three. But then towards the end, um that's when we don't complete our round and we join it into a circular shape. So then we can work the rest of our hat off of that. All right, we're getting close to the end here. Os All right, let's count our stitches here. So we have 123456. I have eight actually. So I'm going to work two more single crochets leaving us with six stitches left before the marker. OK. So there's six on work stitches right here and we are going to do our increases or increase pattern here. So we're gonna do two single crochets into the next stitch, one and two. And then we're gonna do a single crochet into each of the next two stitches, one and then one in the next. And then we're gonna do two single crochets into the following stitch, 12 and then finish up with one single crochet into each of the next two stitches. All right. So now we're at our halfway point, we're going to remove our orange stitch marker and we're gonna work a single crochet into the next stitch, another single crochet into the following stitch. And then we're gonna do an increase into the next stitch one and two. And then we're gonna repeat that. So one single crochet into the next stitch, another single crochet into the following stitch and then an increase into the next stitch one and two. And so you may have noticed that I didn't put that marker back in. That's because we're gonna move our marker to the following stitch. OK? So after we finished those two repeats of the single crochet into the next stitch, single crochet into the following stitch increase into the next stitch. So we repeated that twice. The next stitch is just a single crochet into that into that back loop there. And then we're gonna place the orange stitch marker into the top of that stitch. OK? And so let me show you on the chart just in case you're a chart person where that actually is. OK. So here we are working around our last round. Here's where we started at the beginning of the round. So here is our round number four. We worked across the first side. We got to that orange stitch marker which was right here. And then we worked our single crochet, single crochet increase, single crochet, single crochet in crease, this stitch right here. That's where you're moving your orange stitch marker to right there. OK? And then you just continue working across your piece until there are three stitches left before the marker this time. So, three stitches. So we're just continuing working in the same, you know, just working in that back loop all the way across to the other end. All right. So we've got, oh Trisha saying, just saying hi from Quebec near Montreal. Awesome. I have been there actually quite a long time ago. I took French in, in junior high and in high school and my parents took us on a little trip so that we could go someplace where they spoke French and I was very bad at it, but I did try. Um And you could probably tell that I was not very good at it because because I called it Quebec instead of Quebec, right? Is that better? OK. So we've got 3123 stitches left before that red stitch marker. I'm doing those last two stitches. So now, now there are actually three stitches left before the red stitch marker. So this is going to be the point where we start joining our piece into the round now because this is so tiny. I am gonna switch to the larger piece that I made already. Um And let's see here. So you can see these two look very similar. I've got uh my orange stitch marker. Right there. And then on the other side, I had, oh I use different stitch here. Let me pull this out. So I don't confuse you. This was just to hold my place and I did not have a red stitch marker. So I used a pink one, but I'm gonna um take that one out because you don't even need that anymore. You don't need to know where the beginnings of the rounds were for your band anymore. And um I'm gonna use this green stitch marker and put this back in here because I should have marked this post. There we go. So now they look the same, right. OK. So at this point, we are going to bring the orange stitch marker right next to the last stitch that we worked. This is going to work just like this. They're gonna overlap a little and we are going to make a slip stitch into the back loop of the marked stitch. So that stitch right there that had the orange stitch marker. We're gonna put a slip stitch there and then we're gonna slip stitch into the following stitch as well right there. OK. So those last two stitches were slip stitches and we can now we can use the orange stitch marker to mark the beginnings of our rounds if that's helpful. Um But at this point, we're gonna be working in joined rounds. So you'll actually be able to see where the beginning of your round is so it's not super necessary. It's up to you if you want to use it for that, but just leave the green stitch marker in place. So at this point, we are going to um switch to our larger hook. First of all, I almost forgot. Now we're going to chain one that doesn't count as a stitch or anything. And we are going to work a single crochet chain, two single crochet into that same back loop where we made our slip stitch. OK. So we've already worked in that back loop. We're gonna work in there again. So single crochet chain, two, single crochet all into that back loop. Then we're gonna skip the next two stitches and again, working into the back loop because we're gonna be doing that all the way around. We're gonna do a single crochet chain two and then a single crochet. OK. So we're making kind of like these little bumped. It's not really a shell, but there are two, there are two single crochets into one stitch with two chains between. So we're skipping the next two stitches, single crochet chain to and single crochet, skip two stitches, single crochet chain, two single crochet. So this part that I'm working on here in the pattern is called the body of the hat. I think I called it. It's like the main stitch section. We're switching um to the other stitch pattern bar body of hat textured section. That's what I called it and we are just going to continue working this all the way around our hat. So that remember to skip your two stitches. Remember to work into the back loop of your stitch and you're just placing a single crochet, then a chain to and then a single crochet into each of the stitches we're working into. And those little raised areas where the chain twos are, they kind of make a little bit of a peak there. Um That is gonna be where we're going to be placing all the stitches on the next round. So you can just kind of pay attention to that when you're working this little stitch combination so that you can locate that easily. So you kind of understand where to put your hook next time. It's gonna be into that chain two section. All right. So as I am working my way around, um definitely, if you guys have questions, let me know, put those in the chat, but also if you guys don't have questions, um and you can think of other projects that you are excited to learn about, like whether they are, you know, a certain kind of a stitch pattern, a certain technique um or like an item, you know, you really want to make, you know, socks or you really wanna make um you know, some kind of home Decor or if you're really into Amaga roomy or whatever it is. Um If you have ideas or thoughts or, you know, special requests. A lot of times I will. Um, II, I think I've made almost all the special requests so far. Um, that people have made. Uh, because I, I like to, I like to have a challenge and I like to, uh, you know, as a designer, it's fun for me to have other people suggest things for me to make and then it gives, it points me in a direction. Sometimes I'm a little too um like, oh, I, I have all these ideas but I'm not really sure what I should make, but it's nice when somebody is like, hey, I'd like to do this and it gives me a little, sometimes I need a little focus. That's I think what I'm trying to say. So that's helpful to me. Um This hat actually, this was something that I did a little show and tell on a few weeks ago, I had a live event where I talked about. Um It was for New Year's. Um I call it new yarns resolutions. And it was basically me going through some of my piles of, of abandoned projects and trying to figure out what to do with them, whether I was going to take them apart, whether I was going to finish them, what I was going to do. And so this hat was a design that I had made and the rights had reverted back to me and I was debating whether I should publish this one again or, or just or not. I don't know. And then a couple of people who were watching the live ha showed interest in making this hat. So that is why I'm doing this today. Actually, it was somebody, you know, a couple of people said yes, I want to make that hat. So, here we are. Ok. I've almost reached the end of the round. I think I maybe have one more little group of these to do skip to. Yep. So one more little group. And then when you, when you have, um you know, only that one stitch left and then there were the two slip stitches from the beginning of kind of after, right after we joined, that's when you are done with the round and we are going to make a slip stitch into the very first single crochet that we made there. So that kind of brings it all together. So that was round one of the textured section of the hat. This is what it should look like. And so at this point, you're going to make a slip stitch at the beginning of round two, you'll make a slip stitch into that chain two. So there is your slip stitch that doesn't count as a stitch. We're just kind of working our way over to that section and then we're gonna chain 3123, that's gonna count as our first double crochet of the round and we're gonna place two more double crochets into that same chain. Chain two space. So we're gonna yarn over insert, yarn over, pull up a loop. You aren't over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. That's a double crochet. We're going to do that again. You're an over insert, you're an over, pull up, you're an over pull through two, you're an over pull through two. So now we have a total of what looks like three double crochets. This one was really a chain um chain three, but it's gonna count as a double crochet. And now we are going to work double crochets all the way around our hat. So we'll yarn over insert, yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over, pull through two. And then we're gonna repeat that two more times into that next chain two space. So maybe I should make that a little more clear. We are only working into the chain two spaces on this round. So we're placing three double crochets into each of those chain, two spaces. Chain two spaces from the previous round. Yeah. OK. So here I'm going a little bit quicker now, but I, I'm just placing three double crochets into each chain two space. So you can see what that's starting to look like here. All right. So as we work our way around, just, just remember you're only working into those chain two spaces and you're putting three double crochets into each chain two space. And I think in the interest of time, I am going to just show you what the next round would look like. Um instead of completing this round, so you'd work all the way around to let me just, I'll just fasten off here. You wouldn't, of course. And then I'm going to join over here like I'm finishing up my round here so that you can see how, how it looks when everything gets joined. OK. So just imagine I had been working my three double crochet groups into each chain. Two space all the way around and I'm coming around to the end here and here is our last chain to space. There we go. And then you would make a slip stitch into the top of this chain three. So right here, you would slip stitch to join your the end of year round together. Then to start the next round, you would just make a slip stitch into this middle, double crochet. I call this the middle, double crochet to move your hook over there. So now our working loop is, looks like it's kind of coming out of the top of that center of those three double crochets. Then you're gonna chain one to start, it doesn't count as a stitch. And then we're gonna do the same pattern as we did on the on round number one. So we do a single crochet chain, two, single crochet OK. And then we're going to skip the next two, double crochets and we're gonna do a single crochet chain, two, single crochet into that middle, double crochet out of those three. So when you look at the group of three, it's the middle one that we're working into each time. So we're gonna do a single crochet here. Chain two and then another single crochet into that same spot. Now we skip to the next middle, double crochet and we're gonna do a single crochet chain, two, single crochet. OK. So we're just kind of working into the center stitch of each of those um groups of double crochets, single crochet chain, two, single crochet into that center, double crochet. And you can see it's creating this, you know, this, this is exactly the same round that we did in round one, the same stitch combination. So you'll have those little peaks and then when you come around, you'll join to that first single crochet with a slip stitch and then to begin the following round, it's exactly the same thing as when we began round two where we slip stitch into that chain two space and then make a chain three to begin. OK? And then we're just continuing working between those two rounds over and over. Um Let's see, depending on the size you're making, you will have either 13 rows or 13 rounds 15 or 17, just depending on what size. And then you're gonna do one more repeat of round two. So round two is the round where we do all the double crochets. So let me show you what that looks like. This is the adult small size, same size that I was just working on. So this is after you do a number of repeats of those two rows or two rounds, sorry. Um And then we ended with a uh repeat of round two right here. So that would be round 14 for this hat or it could be round 16 or 18 just depending on the size that you're working on. OK? And then we're gonna begin the decreases to form the top of the hat. So to start the decrease, we're gonna do something that I'm calling a, let's see, a single crush, a decrease which this is not like a regular decrease, this is not a regular single crochet two together. And there are instructions for the decrease in your pattern that you can refer to, but I'm gonna show you how to do it here. So you're gonna do you, we slip switched into that very first double crochet. OK? At the beginning of this round, just like we normally do. And then we're gonna chain one just like normal. And then instead of doing our single crochet chain two single crochet right here, we're going to decrease this stitch together with this stitch in a single crochet. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna insert our hook here yarn over and pull up a loop. Then we're gonna hop over here to that middle, double crochet. We're gonna insert our hook yarn over and pull up a loop. And now we have three, um, loops on her hook and we're gonna yarn over and pull through all three. So this is basically taking place of the first single crochet in that single crochet chain, two single crochet combination, except we've decreased. We've kind of brought these two sections together and I'll show you, show you this a few more times, then we're gonna chain 21 and two and then we're gonna place one single crochet into the same spot that we just worked. The second leg of the decrease into that same middle, double crochet right there. OK. So this is kind of like doing a single crochet chain two, single crochet, except the first single crochet is a single crochet two together between these two groups of stitches. Let's do that again. It looks like we have a couple of comments here. Lana would love me to show how to deal with knots in your yarn. OK. All right. Hopefully we'll have time to get to that um in a little bit. If I don't, I will definitely keep that in mind for a separate, um, like part of my next project uh that I, that I do a demo on, I'll make sure that I uh talk about that a little bit Renee is wondering if I've made a video tutorial in an infant hat with a knot at the top. Ok. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Um, long crochet tube that ends up in the knot. Make the body of the infant hat. Ok. Um I, I, I haven't done one. but that, I know that kind of hats that you're talking about and I will put that on my list. That would be very cute. OK? So we're going to do the same kind of single crochet decrease. So we're gonna insert our hook into that middle, double crochet yarn over and pull up the loop. Insert our hook into the second group of uh the middle, double crochet of the next group, sorry uh yarn over and pull up a loop. Now we have three loops on our hook. We're gonna yarn over and pull through all three chain two. And then we're gonna place a single crochet into that same middle stitch right there. Let's do that again. So we're skipping to the next group of double crochets. We're gonna pull up a loop from the middle stitch there. We're gonna pull up a loop from the middle stitch of the next group yarn over. Pull through three shade two, single crochet into that middle stitch and then move on to the next two groups. OK? So we pull up a loop here, pull up a loop here, draw through all three chain two and then a single crochet into that same stitch. Pull up a loop here, pull up a loop here, bring them together and then train two single crochet into the same stitch. So we're gonna work this um decrease all the way around the hat. So this is decreasing. Our groups of basically our groups of double crochets will be cut in half. Um By doing these decreases. Here, there's a decrease chain two single crochet into that same stitch. Here's our next decrease chain two single crochet into that middle stitch. There's our next decrease chain two single crochet into the metal stitch and we all continue working those decreases. So you can tell it's already starting to bring in the top of the hat. It's making it smaller. Oops somewhere back here. I forgot to do the second single crochet. There we go right there and then decrease J two single crochet, decrease chain two single crochet, decrease chain two single crochet, decrease jane two single crochet. Here we are. Let's see almost at the end here. OK. So I've got one more group of double crochets left. So that makes me think that I may have made a mistake and not decrease somewhere. Let me just check my pattern real quick. Let's see next to Oh no, that was right. OK. So you will end up with one lone group of your three double crochets at the end just like I did here and then you're just going to do exactly what we were doing on previous rounds where you do a single crochet, just not a decrease there. Just when you end up with just that one set of three, double crochets, you just do a single crochet. J two, single crochet into the middle one there. OK? So you'll have that sort of loan group where you can't pair it up and then we are going to make a slip stitch into the very first single crochet of the round, which was that decrease. So we're making a slip stitch right there. And then sometimes you kind of have to feel around here to see where those chain two spaces are because they are a little bit hard to see once we've done these decreases. But if you kind of pull up on it, you can see those two chains above my finger. That's where we're gonna be inserting our hook. We're doing the same thing that we've been doing on um on the even rounds. So we're going to just do a slip stitch into that um chain two space. Sorry. Were there even rounds on last time? Yeah. Yes. OK. So now we're going to be doing the same thing. So we chain 3123. This is our double crochet round. It's exactly the same as before. And we're gonna do two more double crochets into that same stitch and then we hop over to the next chain two space, which is right here and then we make three double crochets there. One, two, 31 thing I just realized if you, if you were a newer crochet and it's hard for you to read your stitches, it's hard for you to tell where to insert your hook on this round, on the previous round. When you're doing your decreases and your chain twos and all that stuff, place a stitch marker into each one of those chain twos. I know it sounds like a lot, but it'll help, it'll help you be able to recognize those spaces better if you have a stitch marker in each of them, or you could tie a piece of yarn on it or safety pin if you don't have that many stitch markers, just some way of marking those chain two spaces. Um I can see them pretty easily, but I'm, you know, I've been crocheting for a long time and I know sometimes when you're doing a new stitch pattern. Um and especially if you are newer to crochet, it can be really tricky to kind of figure out where you're supposed to be putting your hook. OK. So we are just working those double crochets, those groups of three, double crochets into each of those chain two spaces. And then on the next round, we are going to close up our hat even a little further. All right, few more groups left here. Let's see. Debbie said you said to start the decrease in the same stitch. It looks like you're going into the next stitch. Could you show that a little more clearly? Ok. Um, I, OK, on my next round, I will be showing you exactly the same thing that we just did with the decreases. I think. Um, I'll go over it on the next round. We're almost there. There we go. I think we've got just a couple more groups of those double crochets left. All right. Three more, two more groups maybe. Let's see. OK. Here's our last group of three, double crochets. One, two and three. And now we will slip stitch into the top of that chain three. Then we're gonna slip stitch into that middle, double crochet, which is right here and then we chain one and we are going to make, we're gonna start our decreases again on this round. So this is another round with the decreases. So we're going to do, we're gonna insert our hook into the same stitch that we slip stitched into right there. So that's that middle one. And we pull up a loop. Then we're going to insert her hook into the middle of the next group of three, double crochet right here. Pull up a loop. So now we have three loops on our hook. We're gonna yarn over and pull through all three. And then we're going to change to and then we're gonna make a single crochet into the same stitch right here. That this second leg of the decrease was worked into. OK. So we already worked into the stitch just a second ago before we did the chain two. And we're gonna place another single crochet into that same stitch. OK? So now we're gonna skip to the next group of double crochets. So we're gonna pull up a loop from the middle, double crochet and then pull up a loop from the middle of the next group of double crochets here over, pull through three chain, two, single crochet into that middle, double crochet, that same stitch. We just pulled up a loop from and then we're moving, we're gonna move on to our next groups of double crochets. So we'll pull up a loop from the middle stitch here, pull up a loop from the middle stitch here, yarn over, pull through three chain two and our single crochet goes into the same stitch that we just worked into that middle, double crochet that we've already worked. The second leg of our decrease into if that makes sense. I hope that was more clear, Debbie. OK. So we're going to move on to the next two groups, pulling up a loop in the middle, pulling up a loop in the middle, pulling through all three chain, two single crochet into that same stitch we just worked into. And here's our next decrease worked over the same. Uh The next two groups of double crochets chain two, single crochet into the same stitch we just worked into. Um And Jean is saying that she likes this method of decreasing. Yeah. You know, when you, when you're working in a kind of a weird stitch pattern like this, if it isn't like, you know, single crochet, double crochet or you kind of have groups of stitches, you have to figure out ways to make your stitches look good when you're decreasing. It's a little bit of trial and error. OK? So this isn't normally how I would do it because there are kind of large gaps that you're not working into, but it seems to look good with the stitch pattern to help continue the, the look of the stitch pattern. OK? So we've made it all the way around to their very first single crochet. That was the decrease, single crochet decrease. Then we do a slip stitch into that stitch. OK? And so we are just about out of time and I, I wanna show you the blocking part, the next round that you're gonna do. I'm just gonna talk you through it because it's something you've already done. The next round that you do is going to be those same groups of the three double crochets. OK? So you would slip stitch into the next chain two space and then you would chain 3123 and then you would work your double crochets here, one, double crochet, two, double crochets. So now you have a total of three, double crochets to begin with, then you're gonna place three, double crochets into each of those chain, two spaces around and then you'll slip stitch to finish up that round. So that would be, let's see. Round number four and round number five, you're just gonna do a single crochet two together all the way around. So if you've never done that before, um, all you do to do a single crochet two together, which is different than a single crochet decrease. Um Let me just kind of show you how to do that. Let's see. Oh I'll show you how to do that over here. Even though you would not, you would not definitely not be doing your decrease over here. But at least you can kind of see my stitches if you're, if you've never worked a single crochet two together before, um you're just pulling up a loop from each of the next two stitches and then you're gonna yarn over and pull through. So pulling up a loop from the next stitch and pulling up a loop from the next stitch or, you know, yeah, from the next stitch. And then you can yarn over and pull through all three. If you wanna do an invisible decrease, you can pull up the, just the front loop of the following stitch and then immediately insert your hook underneath the next two stitches of the following stitch, pull up a loop and then pull through. Oops pull your loop all the way through, sorry. And then yarn over and pull through two. So that would be an invisible decrease, um invisible single crochet two together. So you can do that either way. Of course, to reiterate you are not decreasing on the bottom of your hat band. I just wanted to show you how to do some decreases up here and I know these stitches are really hard to distinguish between. So that's why I did it down here so that you could hopefully see that a little better. So that would be your last round. And then you cut your yarn, weave it through all of the um front loops of the remaining stitches and pull it tight and that stitches in the top of your hat, you weave in your ends um and then you can sew your button on. I'm gonna just cut this off here and then I just wanna demonstrate really quickly one thing about blocking this hat. So when I block a hat, I don't like it when I block a hat and then it gets these sharp um creases on the side. So if I'm steam blocking, I just steam block in the middle and rotate my hat and steam block in the middle. And that works fine for this hat. It was kind of like lumpy on the top and I did not like how that looked. The, the stitches came together nicely. The pattern looked good, but it was sort of roughly and I didn't really like how it was looking. You can see this one's been blocked and this one hasn't. And even though I haven't finished my decreases, you can see there's kind of a lot of rippling going on here. So I wanted to fix that by blocking it on something round. So this is my method for doing that. I just blow up a balloon. So I know that it's, you know, definitely smaller than my hat size, but, but it will still fit in there. And then I put the balloon inside my hat. You guys will just have to imagine that this hat is finished and you definitely do not want your balloon to stretch out your hat in any way. You don't, you're not stretching out your stitches unless you wanna make your hat bigger, which you could. All right. And then you can place that in a mug like this and then you have a nice round surface to contrary your hat to. Then you can, you can either get your hat damp before you do this or you can just, oh, it's my, my spray bottle set on my cat setting where when my cat is driving me crazy in the middle of the night. Let's see if I can figure this out here. We just need a little mist. Ok. Maybe this one doesn't mist very well. Well, we'll just pretend this is misting. Um, so you would miss it with your nice misty sprayer, unlike the one that I brought today and then just sort of pat your hat into shape and make it nice around on the balloon and then let it dry and I will miss the whole thing. You wanna be careful not to stretch out your hat unless of course you want it bigger. Um, but then you can just kind of pat it into place and allow it to dry and it'll have such a nice rounded shape at the top. It'll look so much better. So I would definitely recommend blocking this after you are finished. All right, that wraps it all up. Um I hope you guys make this hat. Um, I would love to see posts on social media about this hat with pictures. That would be really awesome. Um, definitely come back, you know, in a couple of weeks, we'll be doing another live tutorial. Um, and I really appreciate, I really appreciate you guys being here and being active in the chat. Thanks so much for joining me. Bye everybody.