A Dream Is a Wish Your Hat Makes Beanie Crochet Pattern

Although I wasn’t expecting to make a Valentine’s Day design this year, I am super excited to share the pattern for the A Dream Is a Wish Your Hat Makes Beanie! (Get it??)

Over the past year, whenever I was thinking of a design, I always had in mind that I wanted to challenge myself and make each project more complex than the last. However, over time I have realized that one, that plan is ridiculous, and two, it is possible to challenge myself in different ways and these different ways will help me grow not only as a designer, but as a person.

So this year I am making it a goal to challenge myself in different ways that I definitely didn’t try last year.

One of these ways is to allow myself to make something more simple and not feel like it “isn’t enough”. Since I have been crocheting, I have only made a handful of beanies, and they were all pretty much gifts for people that I never intended to try to write up into a design.

As I said earlier, I wasn’t planning on making a Valentine’s Day Pattern, but I was invited to participate in a giveaway that had a fast approaching deadline and though it was a good time to challenge myself to complete a smaller project in a little under a week.

What I ended up creating was the A Dream Is a Wish Your Hat Makes Beanie! I knew I wanted to try the heart stitch and figured a beanie would be a cute yet quick project to contribute to the giveaway! Shall we get into the pattern??

Materials:

• 1 Skein of Caron Simple Soft in Blackberry (C1)
• 1 Skein of Caron Simply Soft in Off White (C2)
  • Approximately 200 yards
• Size US H/5mm crochet hook
  • I used a Furls Odyssey Hook

Gauge:

BLHDC- 4 BLHDC x 3 Rows = 1” x 1”

Sizes: Average Woman’s Size Beanie (21″ head circumference)

Abbreviations:

• CH – Chain
• SC- Single Crochet
• HDC – Half Double Crochet
• DC – Double Crochet
• BLHDC – Back Loop Half Double Crochet
• BS – Boble Stitch

Special Stitches: 

Bobble Stitch: For the bobble stitch you will be working 3 “partial” DC stitches into one stitch. Partial just means that when you are working the DC only pull through the first two loops and then begin the next DC. Pull through all 4 loops when you have completed the 3 partial DC stitches.

Beanie Base

For this beanie, rather than working in the round, it is going to be worked up as a rectangle that is sewn together to become the shape of a beanie! 

This pattern is written for a average size Woman’s beanie, should you wish to make adjustments based on the measurement of your head, simply add or subtract in sets of 6 rows to your Beanie Base to increase or decrease the size of your beanie.

Work the following in C1

Foundation

Chain 30 (+1) stitches

Row 1:

1. Work a HDC stitch into each chain stitch (30)
2. Chain 1 and turn

Row 2 – 48: 

1. BLHDC into each stitch across
2. Chain 1 and turn

If you are matching the gauge, 48 rows of BLHDC will work up to be about 17” -18”. The suggested yarn is quite stretchy and should comfortably stretch over your head

Once you have finished the base of your beanie, we will begin working on the brim!

Beanie Brim

The brim of the beanie is where we are going to be working the heart pattern! It needs to be worked in multiples of 6 so make sure that your beanie base has a number of rows that is a multiple of six.

Working along the long side of the beanie base…

Row 1:

1. Work 1 SC into the side of each row from the beanie base (should be 48 if you did not adjust the pattern)
2. Chain 1 and turn

Row 2:

1. Work 1 SC into each stitch across
2. Chain 1 and turn

Row 3:

1. Work 1 DC into each stitch across
2. Chain 1 and turn

Row 4-5:

1. Work 1 SC into each stitch across
2. Chain 1 and turn

Work the following in C2

Row 6:

1. Chain 3 and work a BS into the first stitch
2. Chain 3 and skip 5 stitches
3. Work a BS into the next stitch, Chain 2, BS into the same stitch
4. Repeat steps 2-3 until the end of the row
5. Work a BS into the last stitch

Work the following in C1

Row 7:

1. Work 1 SC into the top of the BS
2. Chain 2
3. Now working into the row of SC stitches below the row you just worked, skip 1 stitch and work 1 SC into the next 3 SC stitches, skip 1 more stitch (as you may notice, you are just working SC stitches into the middle 3 stitches of the 5 SC below)
4. Chain 2
5. Work 1 SC into the CH 2 space between the BS 
6. Chain 2
7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the end of the row
8. Work on last SC into the top of the last BS 
9. Chain 1 and turn

Row 8:

1. DC into the top of the first BS
2. DC into the CH 2 space
3. DC into the next 3 stitches
4. DC into the CH 2 space
5. DC into the next stitch
6. DC into the CH 2 space
7. Repeat steps 3-6 until the end of the row
8. DC into the top of the last BS
9. Chain 1 and turn

Row 9:

1. Work a SC into each stitch across

Work the following in C2

Row 10:

1. Chain 3 and Slip Stitch into the next stitch
2. Repeat step 1 for the rest of the row
3. Tie off

Now is time to sew up the sides and the top to turn this rectangle into a beanie shape!

Fold your project in half and sew up the side. Now for the top part of it you are not going to sew the top stitches together but you are going to only weave yarn through so that when you pull tight on the yarn after you have weaved it through, the top of the square will bunch up and create a hat shape!

Now that your beanie is shaped like a beanie you fan turn it inside out so that your sewn in seam won’t be showing and the fold the brim up.

The only thing left to do is the make a pom pom and attach it to the top of the beaning and you are finished!

I hope you enjoyed this pattern! As always if you have any questions feel free to ask, and be sure to tag or send me a photo of your finished beanie!