A simple shell pattern combines with a self-patterning yarn to make an easy striped hat.

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Skills Used
Basic crochet stitches: chain, double crochet, single crochet, slip stitch
Crocheting in the round
Skipping stitches, crocheting in chain spaces, crocheting in the back loop only
Increasing and decreasing with sc2tog (with written instructions in pattern)

Skill Level
Easy

Finished Sizes
Newborn (Infant, Adult Small, Adult Large). Photographed sample is size Adult Small.
Newborn: 13.25” (33.5 cm) hat circumference x 5.25” (13.5 cm) height.

Infant: 16.5” (42 cm) hat circumference x 7” (18 cm) height.

Adult Small: 19.5” (49.5 cm) hat circumference x 8.5” (21.5 cm) height.

Adult Large: 22.75” (58 cm) hat circumference x 9.25” (23.5 cm) height.

Materials
Cascade 220 Superwash Wave yarn (100% superwash wool, 3.5 oz/100 g/220 yd/201 m) – 1 (1, 2, 2) skein(s) in 107 Boston, or approximately 115 yd (185 yd, 265 yd, 335 yd)/105 m (169 m, 242 m, 306 m) in any light medium weight yarn.

US Size H-8/5 mm crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge.

Yarn needle.

Gauge
Through Rnd 4 = 4.25” (11 cm) diameter in pattern. For best fit, always check your gauge.