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A few weeks ago, I found a crochet-a-long for an afghan that piqued my interest because the center section would allow me to make a creative top down hat. I made a hat with a few modifications to the center section of the afghan because I didn\u2019t want it to be too big. It was ok and on the smaller side, but the next one I made worked out beautifully, then I decided to make a third with a change in the pattern \u2013 same basic premise and it also turned out well.<\/p>\n
As I\u2019ve mentioned before, patterns are like recipes. Instead of moving forward with the afghan crochet a long, I was inspired to use the beginning techniques to make a hat. I like the flexibility of the bottom up or brim up hat, but I like how the top down hats seem to be warmer and have fewer holes in them in the crown.<\/p>\n
I was online and saw the first portion of the Study of Planet Earth afghan<\/a> and thought I could use that in making a top down hat that would be warm. I changed things a little bit since I\u2019m making smaller hats and I know that the crown should be in the four inch range. The techniques used in the video can be adapted for an adult hat since the crown is larger. Once I got to the proper diameter of approximately four inches for the crown, then the decreases stop and I just continue crocheting in the round, until the hat is the right height, then single crochet in the last round or two.<\/p>\n Since I\u2019ve almost met my goal for scarves (four in progress as I\u2019ve been concentrating on little red hats) I\u2019ve been thinking of donating to the Seamen\u2019s Christian Institute<\/a>. I want to make sure that I follow the guidelines of an organization before sending any item. On their page there are several patterns, mostly for knitted garments. The Seafarer\u2019s scarf<\/a> seems enticing and I\u2019m interested in challenging myself to create a crochet version. There are a couple of different ways to do it, but I\u2019m up for the challenge. The knitted pattern has the dimensions listed and that will be my starting point for the crochet version. As much as I\u2019ve searched Google and Ravelry, I can\u2019t find a crocheted version of the Seafarer\u2019s scarf. As I always say \u2013 patterns are suggestions. The approximate dimensions are given for the knit patterns as well as suggested yarn weight. To me, as a crocheter that means challenge accepted.<\/p>\n Now all I have to do is pick a color and make sure I have enough for a hat and scarf. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n Happy crocheting!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago, I found a crochet-a-long for an afghan that piqued my interest because the center section would allow me to make a creative top down hat. I made a hat with a few modifications to the center section of the afghan because I didn\u2019t want it to be too big. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}