How I Crocheted my Slouchy Beanie in 5 Easy Steps..

I find myself strangely hooked to crocheting this season and i'm seriously doing nothing else. All my other craft ideas have to hang there in my mind till i'm over this crochet obsession of mine.


Today's post is all about slouchy beanies: Tutorial, Tips and Tricks on how you can get it done rightly.

The Slouchy beanie or cap you see here is unisex.

MEASUREMENTS:

For a perfect beanie perfect measurement is necessary.

Measurement for crown of a beanie: 7.5 inches for adult.

Lengthwise measurement for beanie: 9 inches.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:

1) Worsted weight yarn of two different colours
      I used Oswal teal green and Oswal jet black yarn
2) 1 thick crochet hook and 1 smaller hook.
      I used 9 mm and 4 mm hooks respectively.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Double Crochet Stitch.
Single Crochet Stitch.
Half Double Crochet Stitch.

DIFFICULTY LEVEL:

Easy/Beginner

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS TUTORIAL:

Dbl st=Double stitch.
Sn st=single stitch.
inc=increase.
dec=decrease.
Ch=chain

TUTORIAL:

STEP 1: INC ROUNDS.

Using thicker hook.

Rnd 1: Make magic ring. Ch 2. 11 Dbl st's in magic ring.(stitches including ch 2).

Rnd 2: ch 2. 2 Dbl st's in each stitch.(24 stitches).

Rnd 3: Ch 2. 2 Dbl st's in each stitch.(48 stitches).

Rnd 4: Ch 2. 3 Dbl st's. In 4th stitch make 2 dbl st's. Repeat.(56 stitches).

Rnd 5: Ch 2. 4 Dbl st's. In 5th stitch make 2 dbl st's. Repeat.(67 stitches).

Rnd 7: Ch 2. 6 Dbl st's. In 7th stitch make 2 dbl st's. Repeat.(76 stitches).

Rnd 8: Ch 2. 8 Dbl st's. In 9th stitch make 2 dbl st's. Repeat.(84 stitches).

Rnd 9: Ch 2. 20 Dbl st's. In 21st stitch make 2 dbl st's. Repeat.(88 stitches).

Tip:Measure the crown of your beanie, it should be 7-7.5 inches.

I'm specifying measurements in case some of you may want to use a differently weighted yarn whose stitches may not match to that of my own.

STEP 2: FIXING THE LENGTH.

Rnd 10-21: ch 2. Dbl st in each st(84 stitches).

Tip:By now the length of the beanie must be 8 inches. You can inc or dec rows accordingly to make it more or less slouchier.

STEP 3: DEC ROUNDS.

we have to decrease 10 stitches evenly so as to have a tighter circumference of the cap so that it will not fall off.
Tip:Average circumference of head:62-65 cms.

Rnd 22: Dec 4 stitches evenly. That makes it after every 20th stitch, dec 21st and 22nd stitch into one.(84 stitches)

STEP 4: CHANGE COLORS.

Rnd 23:Change color. I used half double crochet stitch for this round and decreased 6 stitches evenly. That makes it after every 14th stitch.(78 stitches).

Rnd 24: change color(green). make a round of Dbl st's.

STEP 5: BRIM

Using smaller hook.

Rnd 25-28: Change color(Black). Make sn st in each st.
Fasten off.

That's your beanie completed.

Why I used 2 hooks?
Bigger hook made my beanie soft,quickly and more flexible.
Smaller hook made the brim tighter so that it may not fall off.

I couldn't take more photos of this beanies it was taken from me as soon as I finished it.