Crochet Dinosaur Baby Hat Pattern

**THE COMPLETED FREE PATTERN WITH PHOTOS IS ON THE NEXT BLOG POST!**

Baby hats are adorable no matter what, but I’m pretty sure these long-tailed crochet dinosaur baby hats are the cutest thing I’ve ever made.  I have always given these hats to people as gifts for newborns, and I’ve never had the chance to see the baby actually wearing the hat. Unfortunately, there is no baby model for this post, but i promise they are absolutely adorable on! I’ve only ever made t-rex baby hats, but I’ve found a few stegosaurus baby hats that I want to try too! Here’s the quick photo tutorial:

Dinosaur baby hat view #1

I’m working on perfecting the detailed pattern now, but I’ll give you a rough idea of how to make these little crochet beauties. You’ll need two colors of baby yarn, but the hats definitely won’t take the whole ball. You could probably make two or three with the two balls of yarn.

**THE COMPLETED FREE PATTERN WITH PHOTOS IS ON THE NEXT BLOG POST!**

Start by making a regular hat from the top: Chain a few, join, turn, and increase until it’s at the desired size. For a baby hat you probably want to single or half double crochet. It’s more time consuming, but it’ll keep their little heads very warm. Form into a hat as you would usually do, but for a baby’s head. When the hat is at its desired length, begin the next row, but only make your way less than half way around. Turn, and go back to the beginning of that row. This is where you are forming the tail of the hat. Continue going back and forth and turning as usual. Once you’re a few rows in, start to decrease the pattern. You don’t want to decrease every row, but probably every other row or every three rows. You’ll want to end with about three stitches at the last row so it’s not as pointy as decreasing to one stitch would be. The length really depends on how long you want the tail to be and how big and old the baby is. This tail is pretty long and is probably the length of the baby or at least to cover the baby’s bottom, if that helps any.

Here's an up-close view of the hat for those of you who want to try it out

With the second color, make triangles. It’s pretty easy to do, but if you don’t know how, just leave a comment here and I’ll post at least that part to the blog! You can either attach the triangles (scales) to the hat, or directly crochet them on as you go. For more information on that, again, just leave a comment and I’ll provide a better tutorial!

This is what the decrease of the tail should look like

The scales on this hat were attached after the triangles were formed and just tied on

Is anyone interested in a hat or the detailed free pattern to these adorable little hats? Let me know, and I’ll get a move on it!

This is my first photo dinosaur hat for miss Annibelle

Look how adorable that is! This was a smaller version, for the newborn.