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Crocheting a chain.Jupiterimages/Polka Dot/Getty Images
Form a slip knot and insert hook, leaving 6 inches of yarn. Hold the crochet hook in your right hand as if it were a pencil.Turn the hook around the yarn, this is called yarn over. Pull the loop of yarn through forming your first chain stitch. Chain two more stitches making your first chain three. Insert your hook into your first chain stitch -- the one farthest from your hook. Pull a loop of yarn through, this is known as a slip stitch. And in doing so, you have formed a circle. - 2
Finishing the last two loops of a double crochetJupiterimages/Polka Dot/Getty Images
Chain three. This counts as your first double crochet stitch.
Yarn over and insert hook into first stitch of the previous row, or in this case the center of your circle. Yarn over and pull loop through circle to leave three loops on your hook.Yarn over and pull through two loops, leaving two loops on hook. Yarn over again and pull through two loops to form one double crochet stitch.
Double crochet 12 stitches into the circle. Insert hook into the third chain of the chain 3 stitches and join together with a slip stitch. You have formed a circle, this is one row or round of crochet. You should have 13 stitches total in Row 1. - 3). Chain one to form the first single crochet of your next row. One chain stitch equals the height of a single crochet.
Insert hook into the first double crochet of the previous row. Pull a loop through, you will two loops on your hook.
Yarn over and pull through both loops to form one single crochet. Single crochet into each double crochet. Join together by inserting hook into first chain stitch and slip stitch. - 4). Chain three stitches, forming your first double crochet stitch of your next row. Crochet two double crochet stitches into the next single crochet stitch of previous row, and crochet one double crochet stitch into the next single crochet stitch. Repeat this pattern of two double crochet stitches followed by one double crochet stitch into each single crochet stitches of your previous row, until your row is completed. Join your row together with a slip stitch, and chain one stitch to form your first single crochet stitch of your next row. There will be 19 stitches in Row 3.
- 5). Single crochet stitch into each of the double crochet stitches of your previous row until completed. Slipstitch your row together.
- 6). Chain three stitches to form your first double crochet stitch of your next row. Form two double crochet stitches into the first single crochet of your previous row and one double crochet in the next single crochet of the previous row. Repeat this pattern until your row is completed. Slip stitch your row together. There are 28 stitches in Row 5.
- 7). Chain one stitch forming your first single crochet stitch of your next row. Single crochet stitch into each of your double crochet stitches of your previous row until your single crochet row is completed. Slip stitch your row together. You should have 28 stitches in Row 6.
- 8). Chain three for your first double crochet stitch of your next row. Double crochet stitch into each of the single crochet stitches of your previous row until your row is completed. Slipstitch your row together.
- 9). Chain one for the first single crochet of the next row. Repeat Row 6 to form a row of single crochet. Join together with a slipstitch. Chain three and repeat Row 7 to complete the body portion of your oversized hat. Count to ensure you have 28 stitches in rows 6 and 7.
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Crochet three rows of single crochet stitches in the same fashion as previously single crocheted rows. This forms the band of the hat. At the band with your hat lying flat, it should measure 10 inches across. - 11
Fasten off by slip stitching your last row together. Cut your yarn off, leaving a 4 inch tail of yarn on your hat. Pull this tail completely through your slip stitch and pull taut. Insert yarn tail into a darning needle and sew in and out of crocheted stitches to hide your tail. Remove darning needle from your hat. Pull on width of your hat to secure the tail inside your crochet stitches and cut off any portion of the tail not concealed by your crocheted stitches.
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