The Jealousy Hat Pattern

This pattern is also available as a downloadable pdf in my shop here. There are no frills to this tutorial. I have seperated my content into inspiration, skills round up and pattern. My hope is that you are able to access the information you need without having to wade through content that may not interest you. Let me know what you think in the comments. 🙂

 Skill Level: Advanced

Sizes: Adult

Materials:

          Yarn: Appx 90 yards of worsted weight yarn in color A

Appx 50 yards of worsted weight yarn in color B

Hook: 7mm Crochet Hook, 8mm Double ended crochet hook

Notions: Scissors, darning needle, jumbo stitch markers

Abbreviations

• Ch: Chain
• Tks: Tunisian Knit Stitch
• Tps: Tunisian Purl Stitch
• Tps2Tog: Tunisian Purl Stitch Two Together
• SlstBlo: Slip stitch in back loop only

Pattern Notes

• Pattern is worked from brim up and gathered at the top.
  • Brim is worked flat then seamed.
• Body of hat is made in continuous rounds, it is important to mark your first stitch of each round.
• If you would like to adjust the pattern larger or smaller in circumference, add or remove brim ribbing rows by multiples of 13.
• These cables and technique create a very fluffy and full hat.
• Skills Round Up can be found here.
• The post on the inspiration for this hat can be found here.

Pattern

With 7mm crochet hook and color A

Brim: Chain 11, *turn, SlstBlo in each stitch across* (10). Repeat from * for an additional 77 rows (78 rows in total). Slip stitch join both short sides together to form the brim. Do not fasten off. Place stitch marker on this stitch (first stitch of round) and move up hat as rows are worked

Change hook to 8mm double ended crochet hook.

Body Set Up: Pick up 1 stitch/loop for each row of the brim, working the loops off the hook with color B in double ended technique. (78)

Round 1: *Tks 8, Tps 5*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (78)

Round 2 & 3: Repeat round 1

Row 4: *Tks 4, move 4 loops from hook to stitch marker, (hold to the front of the work), Tks 4, Tps 5.* Repeat from * to * an additional 5 times.

When working loops off of hook for this round, leave stitches on stitch markers un-worked.

Round 5: *Tks 4, Tks 4 from stitch marker onto hook, Tps 5.* Repeat from * to * an additional 5 times.

Repeat rounds 1-5 an additional 2 times

Decreases

Round 1: *Tks 8, Tps2tog, Tps 1, Tps2tog*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (66)

Round 2: *Tks 8, Tps 3*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (66)

Round 3: Repeat round 2

Round 4: *Tks 4, move 4 loops from hook to stitch marker, (hold to the front of the work), Tks 4, Tps 3.* Repeat from * to * an additional 5 times.

When working loops off of hook for this round, leave stitches on stitch markers un-worked.

Round 5: *Tks 4, Tks 4 from stitch marker onto hook, Tps 3.* Repeat from * to * an additional 5 times.

Round 6: *Tks 8, Tps2tog, Tps 1*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (60)

Round 7: *Tks 8, Tps 2*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (60)

Round 8: Repeat round 7

Round 9: *Tks 4, move 4 loops from hook to stitch marker, (hold to the front of the work), Tks 4, Tps 2.* Repeat from * to * an additional 5 times.

When working loops off of hook for this round, leave stitches on stitch markers un-worked.

Round 10: *Tks 4, Tks 4 from stitch marker onto hook, Tps 2.* Repeat from * to * an additional 5 times.

Round 11: *Tks 8, Tps2tog*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (54)

Round 12: *Tks 8, Tps 1*, repeat from * to * an additional 5 times. (54)

Round 13 & 14: Repeat round 12

Round 15: Slip stitch bind off around.

Leave a long tail. Using a darning needle, weave the tail in and out of the last round of stitches and cinch closed. Tie off, weave in tails, add pom pom and boom you have yourself your very own Jealousy Hat!