Dinosaur Baby Hat Pattern

I have received so many comments on my dinosaur baby hat post, and I am so flattered that everyone likes it so much! I feel so guilty that I don’t have the pattern posted yet. My life has been insanely busy, and I wasn’t expecting the blog to take off like it did. Anyway, I’ve finally found the time for making the pattern!
Below is my free pattern for a baby dinosaur hat. It’s a step-by-step crochet pattern. What’s better than learning to crochet by example. It basically starts off as a baby beanie, then trails off into a tail. See below for more.

Enjoy! Share it with anyone and everyone! Ask me any questions you have, and I’ll try to get back to you.

Dinosaur hat:

Dinosaur hat complete!

Materials needed:
Crochet needle, I used size F, but it will depend on your yarn.
2 colors of baby yarn, one ball of each should be more than enough.

1. Chain 4. Join to form loop.
   

   Step One.

   

   Loop formed in Step One

2. Chain 2. Single crochet 7 stitches inside the loop for a total of 8 around. Join.
   

   At the end of the step, when you join the row.

3. Chain 2, single crochet in first stitch. 2 single crochet in each stitch until end and join.
   

   Keep adding rows like this.

4. Chain 2. single crochet in next stitch 2 single crochet in next stitch. Repeat sc, 2sc until end. Join.
   

   Again, another round. They should all be like this in even circles, if it starts to get uneven, something has gone wrong.

5. Repeat step three.
6. Chain 2. single crochet until end. Join.
7. Repeat step 6 for 11 to 15 more rows, depending on desired length of the hat.
   

   This was my test size. Yours should probably be longer, depending on your baby's head size.

8. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 22 stitches. Turn.
   

   This is where you're starting the tail. It should be almost half way around the hat.

9. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch for 10 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end, it should be 10 stitches. Turn.
   

   Ten stitches in on row 2 of the tail, and decrease. See photos below.

   

   Needle in next stitch, yarn over.

   

   Needle in next stitch, yarn over.

   

   Pull through both loops.

10. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
11. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 8 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
12. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
13. Repeat previous two steps once more.
14. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 7 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
15. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
16.  Repeat previous two steps once more.
17. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 6 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
18. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
19.  Repeat previous two steps once more.
20. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 5 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
21. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
22. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
23. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 5 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
24. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
25. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
26. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 4 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
27. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
28. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
29. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 4 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
30. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
31. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
32. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 3 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
33. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
34. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
35. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 3 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
36. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
37. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
38. Chain 2. Single crochet in next 2 stitches. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet until end. Turn.
39. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
40. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
41. Chain 2. Single crochet in next stitch. Decrease two stitches. Single crochet and turn.
42. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn.
43. Chain 2. Single crochet in each stitch until end. Turn. There should only be three stitches in this row, including beginning and end.
44. Fasten off!

Scales:

Note:

1. Cast on with color #2. Start about four rows from the end of the tail. Find the center of this row and insert needle. Yarn over and pull through. Yarn over again and pull through both loops.
   

   Step one. Find the middle, insert hook, yarn over, pull through.

   

   Two loops on hook now. Yarn over and pull through. Stitch one complete.

2. Insert needle into next stitch and repeat until you have seven stitches.
   

   Row 1 = 7 stitches

3. Now you are at the next row. Turn, but don’t chain. Single crochet in each stitch. At the end you will have six stitches.
   

   Row 2 = 6 stitches

4. Continue this pattern, no chaining between rows and you should have a triangle. Row 1 = 7 stitches, row 2 = 6 stitches, row 3 = 5 stitches, row 4 = 4 stitches, row 5 = 3 stitches, row 6 = 2 stitches, row 7 = 1 stitch. Fasten off when you get finish row 7. Weave in all loose ends.
   

   Row 3 = 5 stitches

   

   Row 4 = 4 stitches

   

   Row 6 = 2 stitches

   

   Row 7 = 1 stitch

5. Repeat this so the scales are evenly dispersed on the tail and hat, this will probably about 6 scales, but could be more depending on the length of your hat and tail!

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.

Simple Crocheted Flowers and Headbands

I’ve been on a hunt for the best crochet flowers, and I think I’ve finally found them! Thank God for Pintrest! There, I found a crocheted flower pin that led me to this awesome craft blog. That blog led me to the original free pattern for these amazing crochet flowers. They’re really easy to make, and they create that huge pop you’re looking for when you’re making crochet flowers and attaching them to headbands, hats, or whatever else.  They’re much more elegant that the other ones I’ve found too.

Anyway, here’s what I came up with:

Simple and Gorgeous!

The headbands are extremely easy too! So, here’s a quick and basic headband pattern for the one pictured:

Base: Chain 13.

Row 1: Double crochet in third chain from hook. Double crochet until end.

Row 2: Chain two, double crochet in next double crochet until end.

Repeat until desired length, join ends with slip stitch to make the final  product. Mine was 15 rows total. It’s really simple to customize the pattern for a skinnier or wider headband! Just add or subtract stitches across.

I’ve found it’s best to do it this way because the headbands are stretchier and better fitting than when you do it length wise rather than width wise.

A quick model shot of the headband

Crochet Beard Hat

I’ve seen crochet beard hats around on Facebook, Pintrest, Etsy and all that, but I’ve never attempted to make one. That is,  until today. A friend of mine showed me the picture this morning and asked if I could make him one. Of course, I said yes and tried it out. I used this crochet pattern as a base, and it turned out pretty well! Craft challenge and craft success. I’ve already got one on order. It hasn’t even been an hour since I finished. Apparently, I’m in the business of crochet now. Want one? Let me know.

Compensating for No Shave November

Christmas Elf Hat Pattern

By popular demand, here’s the pattern I used to make the Christmas Elf Hat I posted a few weeks ago! I had an issue with it staying put on my head all night, so I bobby-pinned it to my hair. The best thing to do would be to buy some elastic-y yarn or some elastic string to crochet with your Christmas yarn once you get to the hat part.
When I make hats I always start at the top and work my way down. So, this patten starts at the tail of the hat and goes down from there.

1. With first color, Chain 4, connect fourth chain to first chain to form loop
   

   chain four!

   

   Join.

2. Chain three. This serves as first double crochet. Double crochet in loop formed from previous step.
   

   Chain three = first double crochet, continue around

3. Continue to double crochet until there are six double crochets. Join sixth double crochet to first double crochet.
4. Chain three. Double crochet in next double crochet. Repeat three times. On third double crochet, double crochet in same double crochet. Repeat this pattern until the end. Result should be: dc, dc, 2 dc, dc, dc, 2dc. Join.
5. Fasten off. Cut yarn. With second color, continue where you left off.
   

   Switch colors.

   

   And continue the same pattern

6. Chain three. Double crochet in each double crochet. There should be 8 dc. Join.
7. Chain three. Repeat a similar pattern to step 4, except with an extra double crochet. Dc, dc, dc, 2 dc, dc, dc, 2dc. Join.
8. Fasten off. Cut yarn. Continue with first color.
   

   Next, switch back to first color

9. Chain three. Double crochet in each double crochet. There should be 10 stitches. Join first and last stitches again.
10. Repeat the pattern from step seven until end. Join. Fasten off. Cut yarn. Continue with second color.
11. Chain three. Dc, dc, dc, dc, 2c, dc, dc, dc, dc, dc, 2dc, dc, dc, dc. Join.
12. Chain three. Dc in each until end. There should be 18 stitches. Join.
13. The pattern continues like this until the tail of the hat is as long as you want it to be. The last stripe in the tail on my hat was 24 stitches around, and this was the 17th stripe.
    

    It should look something like this!

14. Now, it’s time to start the actual hat part. Once the tail is as long as it needs to be, rapid increasing starts! A new color stripe should start the hat part. In my hat, the last stripe of the tail was red, and the first stripe of the hat was green. So, the green is dc, dc, 2dc pattern all the way around. According to my hat, there are 31 stitches, but yours might have more or less depending on the length of the tail! The next row (of the same color) is just dc all the way around.
    

    Here's the final hat part, for reference

15. It’s time to switch to the first color again, in this case, red. The pattern for the first row of red is: dc, dc, dc, 2dc. Continue this all the way around, join and turn. Then, the next row is just the same again, dc in each all the way around, join and fasten off.
16. I felt that this was wide enough for the hat section, so I continued the stripe pattern with a simple dc all the way around for four more stripes.
17. On the last stripe, you may want to skip a few stitches to tighten the ends, depending on how stretchy your yarn is. Again, I would recommend getting some elastic string, or bobby pinning in the hat. The bobby pins were perfect for wearing it out all night because it stayed in place, but if your hair is very short, that’s not really an option!

    I HOPE THAT HELPS!!! If not, please let me know and I’ll try to clarify! This is my first shot at writing a real pattern! Also, I added a pom pom, which is really easy to do, it just takes a long time. Anyone need the tutorial for a pom pom? Leave me a comment and it will be up shortly!

Easy Extra Long Infinity Scarf

Today, I made this amazing infinity scarf. It’s so warm and cozy… I don’t think I’m ever going to take it off. Check it out!

Materials:

• 4 1/2 balls of Nature’s Choice almond colored yarn
• K-sized crochet needle
• About 8 hours of your time

Chain stitch until about 80 inches long. Join ends to make a circle. From there the pattern is really simple. Single crochet (sc) one round, turn, sc one round again, turn half double crochet (hdc) one round. Repeat the sc, sc, hdc pattern until nearly desired width (I did it until it was about 10 inches wide. Then sc two more rounds, fasten off. And, there you go! The coziest and most versatile scarf you’ll ever have.

 

So many ways to wear it!

Candy Cane Hat

It’s been a really long time since I’ve posted here, but I think I finally have the time and material to post to this regularly!!

I’ve never been a huge fan of Halloween, but this year I’m getting excited about my costume! I’m going to be a candy cane!! Today, I crocheted a hat for my candy cane Halloween costume. I’m not going to type out a tutorial, but if anyone is interested, just leave a comment and I’ll write one up!

My adorable roommate/hat model

A second view for those of you who want to make one too!

 Check this post out on pintrest too!

Simple Scarf with Fringe

I’ve been slacking on my crochet lately, but I just taught myself to make stripes and a fringe on a scarf! I have the hardest time reading patterns online or out of books. Usually I’m always wanting more photos or description than a complex code of letters, dashes and asterisks. So, I’m going to give you a photo crochet pattern that will give you a fringe on your scarf!

First, of course, you must start with a scarf. Luckily, making scarfs is very easy. I made this one with a simple single crochet pattern. I chained 17 stitches with my first yarn color (blue), turned and single crocheted until the end of the row. Then, all you have to do is turn and repeat until you feel like it is long enough. Then, fasten off. Start the next color (gray) on each of the ends of the scarf. I single crocheted two rows of the second color and fastened off. To complete the two rows of stripes, repeat two single crochet rows with first color, again with the second color, and finish with first color.  My result was this:

Now, to the more exciting photo crochet pattern for a scarf fringe/tassles:

Since my scarf is 17 stitches across, I used 17 strings roughly the same length. These were about 3 inches long (nine gray, eight blue).

Start with one string and tie a loose knot in the middle

Insert your needle into the loop.

Insert needle into first single crochet.

Grab both loose ends and pull through.

It should look like this when you take the needle out!

Repeat the fringe steps with alternating colors!

How easy was that?!