Free Crochet Pattern - Slouchy Football Hat, Toddler to Adult

Free Crochet Pattern - Slouchy Football Hat

Everyone loves football, well, most everyone.  Whether you love football from the field, the stands, or the couch, you can show your love of the sport with this adorable hat-Slouchy Style.  Sized to fit most in your family, toddler to adult.

This hat will also make a fun hat for all football fans - kids, teens and adults - going thru chemo treatments.  Halos of Hope is a fantastic group that collects donated handmade hats and distributes them to chemo centers around the US.  Check them out at HalosofHope.org.

Feel free to make as many as you like for personal use or for charity.  I ask that my free patterns not be used for profit as they are designed with charity in mind.  There are plenty of for sale patterns available from independent designers (myself included) who give permission to sell items completed from their patterns.

Please note, this pattern is copyrighted and may not be reproduced or redistributed. Completed hats may NOT be sold as the distribution of this free pattern is to promote awareness of the need for fun children’s chemo hats. Please make one for Halos of Hope or another organization that collects and distributes kids’ chemo hats. For more information and where to donate, please go to www.halosofhope.org

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SIZE

Small-Toddler fits approximate 18-19” head circumference (average 9 months – 3 years)

Medium-Small Child fits approximate 19-20½” head circumference (3 years – 6 years)

Large-Tween/Teen/Adult fits approximate 20½-22” head circumference (6 years – adult)

FINISHED SIZE

Small – 17¼” unstretched circumference, 9” long
Medium – 18¾” unstretched circumference, 10” long
Large – 20¼” unstretched circumference, 11” long

MATERIALS

Lion Brand Cotton-Ease [50% cotton, 50% acrylic; 207 yd/188 m per 3.5 oz/100 g skein]; color: Hazelnut; #125 1 skein
Lion Brand Cotton-Ease [50% cotton, 50% acrylic; 207 yd/188 m per 3.5 oz/100 g skein]; color: Snow; #100 1 skein H/8 (5.00 mm) hook or size needed to obtain correct gauge Stitch markers Yarn needle

GAUGE

13 sts/10 rows = 4″ in hdc rows.  Take the time to make a gauge swatch.

NOTES

Pattern is written using standard US stitches.
sl st = slip stitch
ch  = chain
sc = single crochet
hdc = half double crochet
FBtr = front post treble crochet. Yarn over 3 times.  Insert hook around the post of the indicated stitch-from front to back and then out the front again.  Yarn over and pull through a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops (3X).
Magic circle/adjustable ring

Small

Fits approximate 18-19” head circumference (9 months – 3 years)

The hat is worked in a continuous spiral, do not join rounds.

Mark the beginning of each round.

With brown yarn and H hook
1)  Using magic circle/adjustable ring method, ch 1 then work 8 sc into loop.  Tighten.

2)  Hdc in each sc.   (8 stitches total)

3)  2 Hdc in each stitch.  (16 stitches total)

4)  Hdc in each stitch.  (16 stitches total)

5)  * Hdc in next stitch, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around.(24 stitches total)

6)  Hdc in each stitch.   (24 stitches total)

7)  * Hdc in next 2 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 6 more times around, hdc in next 2 stitches, 2 sc in next hdc changing to white yarn on the last stitch. (32 stitches total)
Do not break off the brown yarn you will pick it back up at the end of round 9.

8)   Sc, sc, hdc in next 30 stitches.  (32 stitches total)

9)  Hdc in next 30 stitches, sc, sc changing to brown yarn on the last stitch. Break off white yarn.  (32 stitches total)

10)   Sc, sc, hdc, 2 hdc in next stitch, * hdc in next 3 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 6 more times around.  (40 stitches total)

11)   Hdc in each stitch.  (40 stitches total)

12)  * Hdc in next 4 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (48 stitches total)

13)   Hdc in each stitch.  (48 stitches total)

14)   * Hdc in next 5 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around.
(56 stitches total)

15)  – 20)  Hdc in each stitch.  (56 stitches each round)

21)   Hdc in the next 54 stitches, sc, sc changing to white yarn on the last stitch. (56 stitches total)
Do not break off the brown yarn you will pick it back up at the end of round 23.

22)  Sc, sc, hdc in next 54 stitches.  (56 stitches total)

23)  Hdc in next 54 stitches, sc, sc changing to brown yarn on the last stitch. Break off white yarn.  (56 stitches total)

24)  Sc, sc, hdc in next 54 stitches.  (56 stitches total)

25) – 27)  Sc in each stitch.  (56 stitches each round)

28)  *Sc, skipping next sc work a FPtr around sc post from row 25; repeat from * 27 more times.  Sl st into first sc in round.  Break off brown yarn. (57 stitches; 28 sc, 28 FPtr, 1 sl st)
Keeping color change joins in the back, hand stitch the football lacing on the front of the hat.

Medium

Fits approximate 19 – 20½” head circumference (3 years – 6 years)
The hat is worked in a continuous spiral, do not join rounds.

Mark the beginning of each round.

With brown yarn and H hook
1)  Using magic circle/adjustable ring method, ch 1 then work 8 sc into loop.  Tighten.

2)  Hdc in each stitch.  (8 stitches total)

3)  2 Hdc in each stitch.  (16 stitches total)

4)  Hdc in each stitch.  (16 stitches total)

5)  * Hdc in next stitch, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (24 stitches total)

6)  Hdc in each stitch.  (24 stitches total)

7)  * Hdc in next 2 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (32 stitches total)

8)  Hdc in each stitch.  (32 stitches total)

9)  * Hdc in next 3 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 6 more times around, hdc in next 3 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch changing to white yarn on the last stitch. (40 stitches total)
Do not break off the brown yarn you will pick it back up at the end of round 11.

10)    Sc, sc, hdc in next 38 stitches.  (40 stitches total)

11)   Hdc in next 38 stitches, sc, sc changing to brown yarn on the last stitch. Break off white yarn.  (40 stitches total)

12)   Sc, sc, hdc, hdc, 2 hdc in next stitch, * hdc in next 4 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 6 more times around.  (48 stitches total)

13)   Hdc in each stitch.  (48 stitches total)

14)   * Hdc in next 5 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (56 stitches total)

15)   Hdc in each stitch.  (56 stitches total)

16)  * Hdc in next 13  stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 3 more times around. (60 stitches total)

17) – 23)  Hdc in each stitch.  (60 stitches each round)

24)  Hdc in the next 58 stitches, sc, sc changing to white yarn on the last stitch. (60 stitches total)
Do not break off the brown yarn you will pick it back up at the end of round 26.

25)  Sc, sc, hdc in next 58 stitches.  (60 stitches total)

26)  Hdc in next 58 stitches, sc, sc changing to brown yarn on the last stitch. Break off white yarn.  (60 stitches total)

27)  Sc, sc, hdc in next 58 stitches.  (60 stitches total)

28) – 30)  Sc in each stitch.  (60 stitches each round)

31)  *Sc, skipping next sc work a FPtr around sc post from row 28; repeat from * 29 more times.  Sl st into first sc in round.  Break off brown yarn. (61 stitches; 30 sc, 30 FPtr, 1 sl st)

Keeping color change joins in the back, hand stitch the football lacing on the front of the hat.

Large

Fits approximate 20½-22” head circumference (6 years – adult)

The hat is worked in a continuous spiral, do not join rounds.

Mark the beginning of each round.

With brown yarn and H hook.  Using magic circle/adjustable ring method, ch 1 then work 8 sc into loop.  Tighten.

1)  Hdc in each sc.

2)  2 Hdc in each stitch.  (16 stitches)

3)  Hdc in each stitch.

4)  * Hdc in next stitch, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (24 stitches total)

5)  Hdc in each stitch.

6)  * Hdc in next 2 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (32 stitches total)

7)  Hdc in each stitch.

8)  * Hdc in next 3 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (40 stitches total)

9)   Hdc in each stitch.

10)  * Hdc in next 4  stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 6 more times around,
hdc in next 4 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch changing to white yarn on the last stitch. (48 stitches total)
Do not break off the brown yarn you will pick it back up at the end of round 12.

11)   Sc, sc, hdc in next 46 stitches.  (48 stitches total)

12)   Hdc in next 46 stitches, sc, sc changing to brown yarn on the last stitch. Break off white yarn.  (48 stitches total)

13)   Sc, sc, hdc, hdc, hdc, 2 hdc in next stitch, * hdc in next 5 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 6 more times around.  (56 stitches total)

14)   Hdc in each stitch.

15)  * Hdc in next 6  stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch; repeat from * 7 more times around. (64 stitches total)

16) – 26)  Hdc in each stitch.  (64 stitches each round)

27)  Hdc in the next 62 stitches, sc, sc changing to white yarn on the last stitch.
(64 stitches total) Do not break off the brown yarn you will pick it back up at the end of round 29.

28)  Sc, sc, hdc in next 62 stitches.  (64 stitches total)

29)  Hdc in next 62 stitches, sc, sc changing to brown yarn on the last stitch. Break off white yarn.  (64 stitches total)

30)  Sc, sc, hdc in next 62 stitches.  (64 stitches total)

31) – 33)  Sc in each stitch.  (64 stitches each round)

34)  *sc, skipping next sc work a FPtr around sc post from row 31; repeat from * 31 more times. Sl st into first sc in round. Break off brown yarn. (65 stitches; 32 sc, 32 FPtr, 1 sl st)
Keeping color change joins in the back, hand stitch the football lacing on the front of the hat. ENJOY!