hi guys this is going to be the tutorial that'sgoing to show you how to make one of these riptide slouch hats this one i did in two different colors this one is a sold color, with a different color rim for this tutorial you're goingto need two different and color yarn or you can just do the whole hat in one color
it's up to you. i just prefer to have a darker band on my hat's. this one i used two different skeins to just alternate. and what you're going to need in the way of a hook you will need two different size hooks one i it's a five millimeter or a size "h"hook and a 6 millimeter hook or size "i" hook also you're going to need atapestry needle to close up the top of the hat
get those items and let's get started okay to begin you wanna start by usingyour five-millimeter hook or h hook and you want to chain 66. this size will fit an adult female or adult male you can adjust the size by multiples of 2 a even number so whatever you decide whoever your making it for, just end with an even number
for purposes of this tutorial i am just going to make a small swatch, but you go ahead andchain 66 and then when you're ready you want toslip stitch into the first stitch to form a ring then you want to chain two and this will count as your firststitch so working in the next stitch we're going to do a double crochet andi'm going
under two out of the three stitches each chain has 1, 2, 3 strings, i'm going under two not just one but both of the loops so continue to double crochet all the way around your chain. socontinue to do that and i will see you back in a moment ok i have just come to the end of round 1 and you want to slip stitch in the top of the beginning
chain two to end the round. then again you want to chain two now for round two we're going to bealternating with front post double crochet and then back post double crochet, youwant to start with a front post double crochet becausethis chain at the end of the row will become a back post and you'll see as you go along so you want tostart with a front post double crochet and how you do that is you yarn over, yougo and grab the post and then you double crochet using the post:
and yarn over and to do a back post you want to go into the the back push that double crochet back and double crochet onto the post. again when you want to do a front post, pull forward and do a double crochet, and then the back post go and between the stitches, push that post back and do a double crochet on the post, you'regoing to be alternating
front post double crochet and then back post double crochet, continue this all the way around i will see you willget back up to the beginning okay when we get to the end of round two, again you're going to want to slip stitchin that beginning the top at the beginning chain two andthen chain two again then you will be repeating exactlywhat you did for round two for round three, which is the very first stitch is going to be a
front post double crochet, and the second will be a back post double crochet, so you're basically doing a front postdouble crochet in all the places that you did last round and a back postdouble crochet in all the places that you did last round so i have come to the end of round two and again to end the round, you on a slipstitch in the top of the chain two whoops, i'm trying to go under
two and then you want to chain two now to start round three you're going torepeat the exact same thing we did for round two you're going to be putting a front postdouble crochet where you did a front post doublecrochet last round and a back post double crochet in the places that you did a back post double crochet lastround so we start over the front post double crochet last round so we're goingto continue by doing a front post double crochet this round
then in the next stitch will be a back post double crochet then a front post double crochet, then you're going to berepeating what you did for round two and again for round three and on your rim here you can see the very first row was row one and then you can see here theconnection to the next post that's round two and thenof course we're starting round three
which is connected to the next postthat's how you can count how many rows you have 1 2 and 3. you want to have a total 8 rows so you're going to be repeating round 2 until you have a total of eight rows and this..... let me show you you can see it on this one better because it's variegated this is the rim. so you start counting
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , 6, 7, 8, you'll have a total of 8 rows of this front post, then back post, front post, back post, so when you've gotten all 8 rounds done then i will show you how to begin the next section of your hat.okay for the purposes of this tutorial i just went ahead and i finished my roundthree, but you go ahead and do your total eight rounds for the rim of the hat andthen your ready to change colors and hook sizes
when you're ready to be the main part inthe hat you want to change from the five-millimeter hook over to your six-millimeter hook or "i" hook so i am just going to slip my new hook into my loop and if i was actually making this hat i would cut my yarn here because iwould be done with this color but since this is a tutorial, i won't be cutting it just going to grab my next color and pull it through
my loop and then tighten by pulling the string and now i'm working with the newcolor then you want to start off by chaining two now for this round all you want to do is, do one double crochet in each stitch around so very easy round here. and since you're supposed to have
8 rounds of your rim, this is round 9 so round 9 just put one double crochet each stitch around, when you've got thatdone i'll see you back here for round 9. okay when you get to the end of round 9 you want to slip stitch using the post of the chain 2 i'm just going to go, not into thestitch, just like in between the stitches and slip stitch to end the round, then chain 2 now for round 10, you're going to be doing all back post
double crochets so you're going to bedoing what we did here except you won't be alternating. just do back post so you go in and you push that post back and you do a double crochet, again push that back and do a double crochet only doing back post double crochets for this round for round 10, and you will start to see a ridge starts to
form. so you and continue to the back post until you get back up to the beginning and i'll show you what to do next okay i just got done with round 10, again i'm always ending the round by not going into the stitch of the chain 2, just slip stitch onto the post of the chain 2 you will have a ridge, probably easier to show you on this one you will have this ridge going down the center but this isthe clear back of the hat and since it's a slouch hat you're going to see it because it will be folded
you know while you wear it, so you reallydon't notice it and the coloration here is these are the two rounds that we just did.the first one was the double crochet on the way round and then the next one is back post andall the way round and you'll be repeating those last two roundsover and over again so the next round, round 11, will be double crochet each stitch, so you ended your round
as normal here sorry my yarn is is getting tangled a bit. so when you've finished round 11, you will start again exactly the same. chain 2 and putting one double crochet in all stitches this round just like you did for round 9, and then at the end of this round, you'll slip stitch backin here again and then you'll repeat what you did for round 10
which is just doing back post double crochet on all posts this be repeating those two rounds overand over and over again this hat i alternated thecolors and what i did it for the first round when you start your hat and you change to your six millimeter the first round i did double crochets inthis lighter color then i went ahead and i switched to mydarker color and did my back post double crochet rowand then i did my next
row of double crochets with the same dark color. then i switched to my lighter color and did my back post double crochet row and then i get a row double crochet withit and i just kept alternating every two rows once you get this first done thisis the only one you actually have just one color the rest you'll be doing two rows before you switch if you want color it like this, i really like this hat. this one
was done all in variegated colors as you can see and it has a really nice effect, look to it, and this one is eveneasier because you don't have to switch every row. you just do a double crochetthen a back post double crochet row than double crochet row and a back postdouble crochet it's really easy and it also has a really nice texturethat you can see especially if it's a lighter color like this so feel free to color it however you like.you're going to be
repeating those two rows over and overand over again a until you get to round 20 so you started your very first round of your hat you had eight rows and in the firstround of double crochets is round 9 and then ten, so each row here so to count easier, ever ridge here, is 2 rows so this is rows 9 and 10 11 and 12 , 13 and 14 15 and 16, rounds
17 and 18 then rounds 19 and 20 so when you get to the end of round 20 then we're going tostart reducing, so continue that until you get to the very end of round20 and then i will show you how to close upyour hat so when you're ready the first round of reducing round 21. you want to begin,
let me get closer chain 2 and then you want do a double crochet decrease. how you do that is, yarn over and i going through one stitch and pull up a loop the go right into the next stitch and pull up a loop, then yarn over and pull through three loops then yarn over and pull through one and then the next stitch
will be a double crochet. continue torepeat that for the round you'll do a double crochet decrease and then you'll do i double crochet then a double crochet decrease and then you do a double crochet so continue that all the way round and when you get back up here to the beginningi'll show you what to do next when you get to the last stitch of the round if you have another stitch here just do a double crochet in it if you find that you have an extra stitch
at the end of the round. when you get to the end you'll end it like usual by slip stitching onto the post of the chain 2 then chain 2. now for this round you're gonna do like you did here tomake their ridges you're going to be doing a back post double crochet so that was round 21 so for round 22 you want to just be doing a back post stitch around. so continue to do that for
round 22 and i'll see you back here in amoment just got done with round 22 slip st on the post of the chain 2, for round 23 you want to chain 2, and for this round you will be doing a double crochet decrease in each stitch around so just go in and do like you did before only this time instead of doing adouble crochet next you'll do anotherdecrease. so you will keep
double crochet decreasing all the wayaround when you get to the end of round 23 i'll show you how to do round 24, then 24 will be the last round again if you get to the end of the round and you have 1 stitch left just do a double crochet in it, then slip st onto the post of the chain 2, now for the last round you want to chain 2 and you'll be doing
a back post double crochet in each stitch around so this is your last round and you are justgoing to be doing what you have been doing already butthis time it's going to go much quicker because wedon't have as much stitches left so just keep on doing your back post double crochets trying to do my row off camera real fast, because it's a short round few more
stitches we are tightening up that space so itis getting smaller okay when you get to the end of the round we will slip stitch actually this very last round we want togo into the actual top of the chain two then chain 1 and cut your yarn leaving yourself a decent size tail to use to sew the top of the hat
so you want to turn your hat, grab your tail, pull it through and turn your hat inside out you want to do your sewing on the inside of the hat not the outside, get your tail and get your tapestry needle we're going to be weaving through the top of thestitches and just be careful because you havethis line right underneath it. just make sure you'rebeing careful and you're just getting stitches ofthis last round, don't accidentally go through
the other round behind it if you just want to push this back, just to keep those stitches sticking up, the stitches are fairlylarge so it should be pretty easy if youconcentrate do a fewstitches and then pull your yarn through. you're making a pulley, it's gonna grab allhere stitches okay when we get back up to thebeginning
you'll pull to close this hole up atthe top just pull to tighten it and take your tapestry needle and gothrough one side of the hole to the other side the hole and thenpull it until i have a loop left, then stick your needle through the loop and pull it to create a knot, then do it again one-sided of this hole to the other
so i have a loop put the needle through the loop and pull one more time, this time i'll leave my loop there like that, and i'll use it to tie a couple of knots just to make sure that won't come loose then i grab the loop and just twist it
put your needle through the end, then hide it down the stitches of the hat just a little ways, and pull through tug it alittle and cut your yarn turn your hat back inside out and there you go. i hope yours came out really nice. and i like to show you this one too from this angle, don't know if i showned you before.
so there's different ways that you can color it, you can mess around with different ways of color and if you like you can do one whole hat with one skein of yarn so no worries there so that's the tutorial to showyou how to make the riptide slouch hat i hope that you enjoyed this tutorial, please don't forget to click like and please don't forget to share thisvideo and if you're not a subscriber yetplease don't forget to subscribe thanks
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