I am loving this fall weather! It’s the perfect time to crochet and with Halloween being around the corner, my absolute favorite time to create patterns! I love everything spooky and each year I try to come up with some new fun designs. This year my kids requested new Halloween hats. In my previous post I talked about my youngest daughter’s Frankenstein Hat. This time it was my oldest daughter’s turn to pick a hat and she chose a skeleton beanie! I thought long and hard about a way to design one wanting to skip the traditional Jack Skellington style and maybe take on a more comical variety of skeleton. And here’s what I came up with!
The Skelly Beanie. Perfect for those chilly Halloween outings. A great addition for costumes! In this post I will highlight how to create a child-sized version of this hat, however, you can find the rest of the pattern sizes for free in a downloadable PDF on my Ravelry.
Materials:
- 5.5mm crochet hook, 3.5mm (for smaller hat sizes)
- Worsted weight (I used I Love This Yarn brand) yarn in colors white and black
- Embroidery needle
Child
Use white yarn and 5.5mm crochet hook
Round 1: 8 Hdc in a magic circle; join. (8)
Round 2: Ch 2, hdc in same st, 2 hdc in next st and in each st around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (16)
Round 3: Ch 2, hdc in same st, hdc in next st, *2 hdc in next st, hdc in next st* repeat all around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (24)
Round 4: Ch 2, hdc in same st, hdc in next 2 sts, *2 hdc in next st, hdc in next 2 sts* repeat around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (32)
Round 5: Ch 2, hdc in same st, hdc in next 3 sts, *2 hdc in next st, hdc in next 3 sts* repeat around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (40)
Round 6: Ch 2, hdc in same st, hdc in next 4 sts, *2 hdc in next st, hdc in next 4 sts* repeat around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2 (48)
Round 7: Ch 2, hdc in same st, hdc in next 5 sts, *2 hdc in next st, hdc in next 5 sts* repeat around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (56)
Round 8: Ch 2, hdc in same st, hdc in next 13 st, *2 hdc in next st, hdc in next 13 sts* repeat all around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (60)
Rounds 9-18: Ch 2, hdc in each st around; join with a sl st at top of ch 2. (60)
Round 19: Ch 1, sc in each st around, join with a sl st at the top of ch 1. (60)
Fasten off.
Eyes (Make Two)
Use white yarn and 5.5mm crochet hook
6 sc in a magic circle
Round 1: inc in each st around (12)
Round 2: *sc in 1st st, inc in the next*; repeat around (18)
Switch to black yarn
Round 3: sc in each st around (18) Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Next embroider a small pupil in the middle of the eye with black yarn as follows:
Finish up the piece by embroidering a nose and teeth.
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