Free Pattern for Felted Twenties Style Cloche Easy and Fast Beginner Crochet Project

If you think you can’t crochet a hat in two hours you are wrong. You can wear this the day after you make it.

For this project Brown’s Lamb’s pride worsted is ideal but a similar wool will work. I used a sz K crochet hook but a J works too. Don’t panic or stress, use what you have.

With your main color Ch 5 and sl st to form a ring.

Ch 3 And do 14 dc stitches in the ring and around your yarn tail. Sl st to connect and you should have a little circle. Pull the yarn tail tight to avoid a hole at the top of your hat.

Rnd 2: Ch 3. Make 2dc st in each st around, connect with a sl st to where you started.

Rnd 3: Ch 3. 1dc in first st (2 dc in next st, 1 dc in next st) continue in this pattern to starting point and connect with sl st.

Rnd 4: Ch 3. Dc in first 2 st (2 dc in next st, 1 dc in next st, 1 dc in the next st) repeat around cir, join with sl st.

Rnd 5: Ch 3. Dc in first 3 st (2 dc in next st, 1 dc in next 3 st) repeat around circle and join with sl st.

Rnd 6: Ch 3. Dc in each st and connect with sl st. You should have 75 st or so. No one will notice if you don’t have exactly 75, don’t start all over.

Rnd 7-10: repeat row 6.

Rnd 11: Use contrasting color, ch 1. 15 sc, 5 hdc, 5 dc, 25 htc, 5 dc, 5 hdc, 15 sc, sl st to join. Again, if your numbers are a little different it’s no big deal.

Rnd 12: With main color repeat row 6

Rnd 13: Repeat rnd 11

Rnd 14: Repeat row 12

Rnd 15: Repeat row 11

Rnd 16: Repeat row 12 and knot. Now just weave in your ends and you’re almost done.

Finishing:

Your hat will look huge. This is good. It will shrink by approx. 30% after being felted. Throw your hat in the washing machine with your laundry and wash in hot water with detergent. Your clothes will get fuzzy but the hat needs the agitation of the other clothes in there. When the buzzer goes off pull your hat out of the wash and pull and stretch it into shape (sometimes you have to be kinda rough with ‘em.) Now just let it dry overnight and you have your perfect 20′s cloche!

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