Looking for a fun crafting project? Try making the Crochet Strawberry Shortcake Bucket Hat! It's a delightfully adorable accessory that you can create with your own hands. Start by crocheting the main part of the hat in a charming light pink shade, then add a playful touch with a striped brim in red and pink.
Crochet Strawberry Shortcake Bucket Hat
Don't forget the cute strawberries and a beautifully contrasting green bow for that extra splash of color. This project is perfect for both beginners and seasoned crocheters who want to add a unique piece to their wardrobe or give a handmade gift to someone special.
Materials:
- 6 mm crochet hook
- 3.5 mm crochet hook
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
- Stitch marker
- Worsted weight (4) acrylic yarn in light pink, white, green, red, and pink
Hat Body
- Start with light pink yarn. Make a magic circle.
- Chain 1, then make 8 half double crochets (hdc) in the circle. Close the circle.
Continue increasing in rounds:
- 2nd round: 2 hdc in each stitch around (16 hdc total).
- 3rd round: 1 hdc in next stitch, 2 hdc in next stitch, repeat around (24 hdc total).
- 4th round: 1 hdc in the next 2 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch, repeat around (32 hdc total).
- 5th round: 1 hdc in the next 3 stitches, 2 hdc in next stitch, repeat around (40 hdc total).
For the next 5 rounds, make 1 hdc in each stitch around (40 hdc each round). Add the red yarn in the 4th and 5th round of these 5 rounds.
Brim
- Attach the light pink yarn and make a new starting point on the base of the hat.
- Begin the first round of the brim: 1 hdc in the next stitch, 2 hdc in the next stitch, repeat around.
- Second round of the brim: 1 hdc in the next 2 stitches, 2 hdc in the next stitch, repeat around.
- Last round of the brim: Make 1 hdc in each stitch around.
Finishing the Hat:
- To finish off, make 1 single crochet in the next stitch, then a slip stitch in the next, and fasten off. Weave in the ends.
Making the Bow
- With green yarn, chain 36.
- Start in the second chain from the hook, make 1 single crochet into each chain.
- For the second row, switch to white yarn at the end of the first row, chain 1, turn your work, and make 1 single crochet into each stitch.
- Continue alternating colors (green and white) every two rows for a striped effect and finish with a single crochet in each stitch for the last row.
Strawberries
- With pink yarn, make a magic circle.
- Chain 1, then make 12 hdc in the circle and close it. Slip stitch to the first hdc made.
- In the first stitch, make 1 hdc; in the next stitch, make 3 double crochets; continue with a pattern of alternating between 1 hdc and 1 single crochet in following stitches until the end. Slip stitch and fasten off.
- Add leaves by attaching green yarn to one end of the strawberry, chain 4, work slip stitches back along the chain, repeat around the top of the strawberry, creating small leaf-like chains. Fasten off.
Assemble the hat by attaching the bow and strawberries to the hat with yarn and a yarn needle.
