Crochet Pattern: Fedora Style Hat

I like hats. I almost never wear them, but I like it when other people do and I especially like to crochet them. Crochet hats are fun, quick, and usually pretty easy - no matter what style you are shooting for. This crochet pattern is a simple single crochet stitch holding two strands of cotton yarn together. I like the stiffness that the double strands of worsted-weight cotton yarn provides the hat. Because this is a fedora style hat, the stiffness of the yarn is beneficial when it comes to keeping the shape at the crown of the hat as well as the brim. I am very tempted, though, to try out this same pattern in a bulky-weight wool!

**Start Instructions

Materials and Notions
2 balls worsted-weight cotton yarn in color 1 (5oz/142g each)
2 balls worsted-weight cotton yarn in color 2 (5oz/142g each)
G6/4.00mm hook
Stitch marker
Yarn needle

Notes
Mark the first stitch of each row with the stitch marker. There is no joining because I did not want a visible seam down the back of the hat.

Throughout the pattern, hold two stands of yarn together while crocheting.

This pattern fits a head that has about a 21 3/8 in. circumference. Number of stitches and number of rounds can be adjusted for smaller or larger sized heads.

Pattern
With color 1 and holding to strands of yarn together, chain 5, slip stitch in beginning chain

Rnd 1: 8 sc in ring (8 sts)
Rnd 2: 2 sc in each sc around (16 sts)
Rnd 3: *1 sc in first sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (24 sts)
Rnd 4: *1 sc in next 2 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (32 sts)
Rnd 5: *1 sc in next 3 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (40 sts)
Rnd 6: *1 sc in next 4 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (48 sts)
Rnd 7: sc in each st around (48 sts)
Rnd 8: *1 sc in next 5 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (56 sts)
Rnd 9: *1 sc in next 6 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (64 sts)
Rnd 10: *1 sc in next 15 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (68 sts)
Rnds 11-18: Repeat rnd 7 (68 sts)

Switch to color 2. Join color 2, holding two strands of yarn together and continue with pattern.

Rnds 19-22: Repeat rnd 7 (68 sts)
Rnd 23: *1 sc in next 16 sc, sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (72 sts)
Rnds 24-30: Repeat rnd 7 (72 sts)

Brim
Rnd 31: With right-side-facing, *1 sc in back loop only (only for this rnd) in next 7 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (81 sts)
Rnd 32: *1 sc in next 8 sc, 2 sc in next sc*; repeat from * around (90 sts)
Rnds 33-35: Repeat rnd 7 (90 sts)

Fasten off and weave in ends.
Shape the hat by folding the crown to give it the Fedora dent in the top. Depending on how you like to wear it, bend the sides and the back of the brim to give it a little more shape.

**End instructions