Crochet Football Hat

The latest addition to collection of artistic crafts. This is a New England Patriots football hat, made specifically for a frequent customer at my work. We met at a local coffee shot and drafted the plans for this hat. Annoyingly, I had to order the patch twice as I sent the first one to the wrong address. All in all, I'm quite satisfied with the finished product. 

Glancing over other websites and blogs I realized that I should post the pattern to the crochet projects I create. I am always looking for inspirations from free patterns, why not share mine too? 

Bear with me. This is my first pattern, and I know it isn't perfect.  In fact it's unconventional, but hopefully it makes sense.


This hat is not made in the round. 
Make a ring. Chain 2 at the beginning of every round

Round (Rnd) 1: crochet 12 dc in ring
Rnd 2: Make 24 FPDC around each dc
Rnd 3: Alternate with FPDC and sc 
Rnd 4: Repeat rnd 3
Rnd 5: Make 2 sc in between each FPDC
Rnd 6: Repeat rnd 5
Rnd 7...Keep going as such until you deem the hat wide enough to fit on the person's head. Stop increasing stitches and crochet down.

Red edging: I used the backwards sc in the front loop, and a sc on the next round (the back loop) to allow myself to keep increasing length of the hat. There are two rows of sc between each backwards sc. 

Credit for sizing the hat goes to: Annie's Picture Perfect Blog