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Another great crocheted hat for the Spring and Summer months is the Train Conductor Hat. This is such a fun and versatile hat that can be customized for anyone. You can purchase the pattern during the month of April for $2 off the regular price. Don’t forget, you can save even more when you use the coupon codes at the top of the page!
Fun holiday-inspired hats made with my free Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern are  some of my favorite crochet projects. With a bit of yarn and a little time, you can make something that will spread holiday cheer and get tons of compliments. This week I’m sharing this cute Lucky Leprechaun Hat. To make one of your own, simply download the Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern here and follow the instructions for changing colors below.
If you like this hat and want to try more St. Patrick’s day variations, check out my Rainbow Hat, Shamrock Hat and Irish Colorblock Hat. Thanks for stopping by and have fun crocheting!
With Spring being just around the corner, it is the perfect time to start making lighter weight hats that will protect your head and eyes from the sun. The Breezy Newsboy Beanie Hat is the perfect solution, and you can purchase the pattern for $2 off the regular price all month long. That’s just $3.95, plus you can save even more when you use the coupon codes at the top of the page!
I have finally gotten around to putting away the last of the Christmas decorations here at our house this week and I have to admit that it makes me a little sad. Seeing bits of Christmas cheer all around the house really brightened things up. So I decided we need some crochet hearts to do the job now.
Hopefully I will get a chance to work some of these up next week and begin to spread some Valentine’s Day cheer throughout the house. How about you…have you been crocheting any hearts lately?
Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to fix this? I get these questions all the time, especially regarding my free Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern.
The answer is that you aren’t doing anything wrong! Whenever you crochet in the round and begin each round with a chain, you will have a visible line where each round is joined. I find that a lot of people really fret over this line so I’m including a couple photos of the backs of my Versatile Earflap Hats for comparison.
Now if you’re new to crochet and your line doesn’t look quite so neat, don’t worry – these things come with practice. Just stick with it and keep crocheting!
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and I’ll respond as soon as I can.
Does this look familiar to you?
If you’re like me, you just can’t part with your yarn. You finish a project, and even though you only have a small amount of yarn left, you wrap it up into a little ball and save it. But what will you do with it?
How about this….
At this time of the year when everyone is focused on cleaning out and organizing, I figured I would put my basket of leftover yarn and my free Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern to work to make something extra cute and fun to wear (plus with all the colors it will go with so many things). I love that I could make this hat from what otherwise could have been thrown in the garbage. The only bad thing about it – lots of ends to weave in!
So if you have a basket of yarn leftovers that you are looking to use, grab my Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern here and get to work. As I was making the hat pictured above, I took rough measurements of the yardage required for each round and I made a handy dandy chart for you. You can download the chart I made by clicking here.
Just measure the small lengths of yarn you have on hand to see if they are long enough for the hat you want to make. Be sure when you are measuring that you don’t stretch the yarn or else your length of yarn will actually be too short. For the earflaps and edgings, I used about 26 yards of orange for the child size hat. You may need a little more for the adult size hat, but that will be more than enough for the smaller sizes.
Additionally if you don’t like the look of every round being a different color, you can use the chart to see if you have enough yardage to add just a stripe or two to a solid color hat. I like this idea so much that I set up a station so that if I have leftover yarn from a project I can label it for a future project.
Oh, the possibilities! I can’t wait to fill it up and get creating.
I hope you have enjoyed this Free Pattern Friday and that you can put your scrap basket to good use too! Thanks for stopping by!!
Happy New Year!
Here at Micah Makes I have been thinking a lot about what I want to incorporate into this site for 2013. Last year I started off strong with my free Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern and many different variations found here. My posting slowed by the summer and by the end of the year I neglected to share all the fun ideas I had. This year is going to be different. I am planning on starting some regular features that will keep the blog fresh and fun, and keep you coming back for more.
Also new for 2013 is the Micah Makes Ravelry Group. This is going to be a place to share your creations from my patterns, ask questions and interact. I hope you’ll come join us there!
Additionally, 2013 is going feature one pattern per month on sale. We are celebrating all things snowy and cold this January with the pattern of the month being the Penguin Hat Pattern. This was my very first design and is an all-time favorite. My youngest son still wears his amidst all his other hat choices! The Penguin Hat Pattern will be on sale for $1 off its normal price of $5.95 for the entire month of January here in my pattern store as well as in my stores on Ravelry, Craftsy and Etsy. Don’t forget to use the coupon code in the top right side of the page if you want to buy more and save here on micahmakes.com!
I hope everyone is having a great start to 2013 and I hope to see you back here again! Thanks for visiting!!
Need a quick and easy handmade gift idea? This free crochet pattern will show you how to make these cute little cozies for the small travel bottles of hand sanitizer (2 fl. oz. size).
They look great on their own…
…or you can embellish them any way you want!
These monsters reside on my boys’ school bags to help kill germs and keep them healthy. All the embellishments were cut from felt and sewn on. I’m not going to lie – that took at long time, a lot longer than crocheting the cozy – but I think they turned out adorable and my boys love them.
The cozies in these pictures are going to make great little gifts this holiday season, and they were super easy. The embellishments are just fabric stickers intended for scrapbooking. I actually got mine as a daily deal at PickYourPlum so I can’t give you a link to these exact stickers, but I think any fabric embellishments that have a very sticky back will work well.
So go ahead and download the pattern by clicking the download button above and with a little bit of time and a little bit of yarn, you can make this for someone on your list (or yourself) too. I hope you will love it!
I just loved the Irish Flag Colorblock Hats I made for my boys for St. Patrick’s Day so I decided to make one for Halloween too – the Candy Corn Colorblock Hat. I used Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn in white, orange and yellow. It will be the perfect hat to wear to our town’s Halloween Parade this week!
Wanna make one? You can download the Versatile Earflap Hat Pattern here, and then take note of where to change colors for the size you are making below.
Earlier this year I made Crochet Football Applique Hats for my two boys for Superbowl Sunday. The hats looked so cute and it was a fun way to show team spirit. Of course, when my nephew saw them, he wanted one of his own. His mom had the great idea of adding his favorite player’s number to the hat.
Now that football season is here again, I thought I would share the idea with you. Find all the information you need to make the Football Applique Hat here. Then simply cut the number you would like to use out of felt and sew it to the hat with a running stitch.
This idea isn’t just for professional teams either. It would be great to use for your own football players in their team colors too – a special hat made just for them!
