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Free Crochet Baby Bonnet Pattern

Free Crochet Baby Bonnet Pattern



POMPOM BONNET

■ Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino (55% wool, 33% microfibre, 12% cashmere, 50g/125m), 1 ball of Mist (0057)

■ DK yarn in another shade for pompom

A 3mm (US C/2 or D/3) hook 

TENSION

18 sts and 16 rows to measure 10x10cm (4x4in) in stitch patt with a 3mm hook

MEASUREMENTS

To fit 0-3 months

Flat piece measures 25x13cm (10x4 3/4in) before joining the back seam

BONNET

Ch50.

Work as given for Basic Popcorn Stitch Pattern for 20 rows, do not fasten off. Fold piece in half lengthwise, WS tog. Matching up the stitches, work a dc seam down one side of the folded piece. 

Fasten off and weave in ends.

Rejoin yarn to dc around the rem edge; when you reach each of the front corners, ch31 for a tie and dc back along the chain before continuing around the edge.

Fasten off and weave in ends.

Make 2 pompoms with DK yarn in another shade and attach one to the end of each tie.  

BASIC POPCORN STITCH PATTERN

Make Popcorn (MP) Work 5tr in the same st, drop the loop from the hook, insert the hook from front to back in the top of first tr worked, put the hook back in the dropped loop and pull through the first tr, ch1 to close.

Chain a multiple of 3 plus 2 sts. We used 23 ch for the sample above.

Row 1 (RS) MP into fourth ch from hook (skipped ch count as tr), 1tr into each of the next 2 ch, *MP in next ch, 1tr into each of the next 2 ch; rep from * to end omitting last tr on final repeat, turn.

Row 2 Ch1 (does not count as st), 1dc into each st to end, turn. 

Row 3 Ch3 (counts as tr), *MP in next st, Itr into each of the next 2 sts; rep from * to end, turn.

Row 4 As Row 2. 

Row 5 Ch3 (counts as tr), *MP in next st, tr in each of next 2 sts; rep from * to end, omitting last tr on final repeat, turn.

Row 6 As Row 2.

Rows 3-6 set the pattern.