Basic Striped Crochet Hat Pattern

When I teach my Beyond Basics crochet classes, I like to incorporate fun projects to help students learn the techniques I cover. This basic striped crochet hat pattern is worked in half double crochets (hdc) and helps give my students a better understanding of gauge, working in the round, clean color changes, increasing, and creating a ribbed effect with post stitches. They get to learn all this while also creating something they can actually wear or give as a gift!

So whether you are trying to build on your basic crochet knowledge or just want a cute striped crochet hat, give this hdc hat pattern a go. The finished hat has a classic beanie-style fit with a simple ribbed edge. You may also like my one-color easy crochet hat pattern here.

About This Striped Crochet Hat Pattern

Pattern Details

• Skill level: Easy
• Yarn: Worsted-weight yarn in 2 colors
• Hook: 5 mm (US H-8)
• Gauge: 13 hdc × 11 rows = 4 in. (10 cm)
• Finished size: Approximately 20 in. (51 cm) circumference × 8 in. (20 cm) crown to brim
• Stitches: Half double crochet and front post double crochet
• Construction: Worked in the round from the crown down
• Size: Adult; easily adjusted using my Hat Sizing Guide

Supplies

• 2 colors worsted-weight yarn (shown here in Cascade 220)
• US H-8 / 5 mm crochet hook
• Tapestry needle and scissors

Helpful Crochet Resources: Refer to my Crochet Abbreviations and U.S. to U.K. Crochet Conversion Chart as you work through the pattern.

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Notes

• I prefer starting rounds with a ch-1 followed by the first st of the round because I feel it leaves a less obvious “seam”; however, if you prefer the more traditional ch-2 start, count the ch-2 as a stitch and use it in place of the ch-1 and the first hdc (end-of-round stitch counts should remain the same). 
• Choose one yarn as Color A (CA) and the second yarn as Color B (CB). Alternate colors as indicated throughout the pattern.

Abbreviations

CA = color A
CB = color B
ch = chain
FPdc = front post double crochet
hdc = half double crochet
rep = repeat
st(s) = stitch(es)

Special Stitch

Front Post Double Crochet (FPdc): Yarn over and insert hook from the front around the back and to the front again around the post of the stitch in the previous round. Complete as a regular double crochet.

Striped Crochet Hat Instructions

With CA, make a magic ring (or, as an alternative to the magic ring, you can ch 2 and work Round 1 in the second ch from hook).

Round 1: Continuing with CA, ch 1 and work 8 hdc in ring; join in top of 1st hdc with CB, and tug tail gently to close the hole — 8 sts.

Round 2: Continuing with CB, ch 1 (does not count as st here and throughout; see note), work 2 hdc in same st as join and in each st around, join with CA — 16 sts.

Round 3: Continuing with CA, ch 1, work 2 hdc in same st as join, 1 hdc in next st, *2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in next st, rep from * around, join with CB — 24 sts.

Round 4: Continuing with CB, ch 1, work 2 hdc in same st as join, 1 hdc in each of the next 2 sts, *2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in each of the next 2 sts, rep from * around, join with CA — 32 sts.

Round 5: Continuing with CA, ch 1, work 2 hdc in same st as join, 1 hdc in each of the next 3 sts, *2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in each of the next 3 sts, rep from * around, join with CB — 40 sts.

Round 6: Continuing with CB, ch 1, work 2 hdc in same st as join, 1 hdc in each of the next 4 sts, *2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in each of the next 4 sts, rep from * around, join with CA — 48 sts.

Round 7: Continuing with CA, ch 1, work 2 hdc in same st as join, 1 hdc in each of the next 5 sts, *2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in each of the next 5 sts, rep from * around, join with CB — 56 sts.

Round 8: Continuing with CB, ch 1, work 2 hdc in same st as join, 1 hdc in each of the next 6 sts, *2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in each of the next 6 sts, rep from * around, join with CA — 64 sts.

Round 9: Continuing with CA, ch 1, work 1 hdc in the same st as the join and in each st around, join with CB — 64 sts.

Round 10: Continuing with CB, ch 1, work 1 hdc in same st as join and each st around, join with CA — 64 sts.

Rounds 11 through 18: Repeat Rounds 9 and 10. After completing Round 18, fasten off CB only.

Round 19: Continuing with CA, ch 1, work 1 hdc in same st as join and each st around, join — 64 sts.

Round 20: Ch 1, work 1 hdc in same st as join, 1 FPdc around next hdc, *1 hdc in next st, 1 FPdc around next, rep from * around, join — 64 sts.

Rounds 21 and 22: Ch 1, work 1 hdc in same st as join, 1 FPdc around next FPdc, *1 hdc in next st, 1 FPdc around next FPdc, rep from * around, join — 64 sts.

Fasten off and weave in ends.

More Crochet Hat Patterns

• Easy Crochet Hat Pattern for Beginners
• Little Sweetheart Child Hat Pattern
• Mod Cluster Stitch Crochet Hat Pattern
• O’Hara Hat Crochet Pattern

More Crochet Tutorials

• Hat Size Chart
• Magic Ring Tutorial
• Seamlessly Change Colors in Crochet

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