Diagonal Shell Slouch Beanie

Wear it over your hair like this... 

Or stick your hair in it like this!

Hook: K
Material: Red Heart Super Saver
Gauge: 8” across by 10” long – brim stretches to a width of 12” (circumference of 24”)

Hints & Tips:

-          The hat looks small. The point of this pattern is that it stretches a lot. It only measures 8” across but the brim can stretch all the way around an adult head when done correctly.

Stitches:

-          Trc – triple (or treble) crochet

-          Sl st – slip stitch

-          Ch – chain

-          St – stitch

-          Sp – space

Special stitches:

-          Trc v-stitch – trc, ch 1, trc all in one space

-          Trc shell – 5 trc in one space

-          Secured st – 2 sc together WITHOUT decreasing  so you’ll sc2tog, do the slip stitches and then sc the 2^nd of the previous secured st and one new st together – pictures to help at bottom

Round 1) With color A - Using magic circle, 12 trc, pull tight, join to first trc with sl st – 12 trc

Round 2) With color B – Join in space between trc, ch 3 (does not count as a st here and throughout), trc v-stitch in every sp around, join to first trc with sl st – 12 trc v-stitch

Round 3) With color A – Join in ch 1 sp of v-stitch, ch 3, 3 trc in every ch 1 sp around, join to first trc with sl st – 36 trc

Round 4) With color B – Join in 2^nd trc of any set of 3 trc, ch 3, *2 trc, ch 2, 2 trc in same st, skip next 2 st* around, join to first trc with sl st

Round 5) With color A – Ch 3 in any ch 2 sp, *trc shell in ch 2 sp, sc in next ch 2 sp, ch 3* around, join to first trc with sl st – 6 shells, 6 sc, 6 ch 3 spaces

Round 6) Sl st over to sc, ch 3, *trc shell st in sc, sc in 2^nd ch of ch 3 sp, ch 5* around, join to first trc with sl st

Round 7 – 11) Repeat round 6 )EXCEPT you will sc in the 3^rd ch of the ch 5 instead of the 2nd ch of the ch 3 sp and - you will still shell in the sc)  – tie off at end of round 11

Brim:

With color B – Join in same st as tie off – make a secure st (working in back loop and 3^rd loop only), ch 6, sl st in 2^nd ch from hook and down, *make a secure st (counts as a ch 1), turn, sl st back up ch in back loop only, ch 1, sl st back down in back loop only* all the way around the hat – when you get to the ch 5 sp, you’ll skip 2 ch attaching the last trc of the shell to the 3^rd ch of the ch 5 and then you’ll do another secured st from that 3^rd ch to the first trc of the next shell (skipping the next 2 ch).

This example shows the secured st being placed into the 3^rd ch (remember, you skip the first 2 and last 2 of the ch 5). As you can see in the image, a loop has already been pulled up from the previously worked st and the hook has been inserted under both loops of the ch sp (which will leave the back hump on the other side of the hook). 

This image shows the same step as the one above but where the hook goes in the other stitches. You can see two white loops on the hook as the first part of the secured stitch has already been done. Then you see two purple loops on the hook… the back loop of the stitch and then the third loop. Next to the hook head, you can see a faint line where another third loop is. 

And here we see a completed “secured” stitch. The secured st is done in two part. The first sc and the second sc that are then “tied” together. This will typically decrease a project but by putting the first part of the secured st in the same st as the second part of the previous secured st, we aren’t decreasing at all because it equals 1 sc in every st.