Oh how I love the red and the white together for this hat. This was the first one I stitched up in these colors and I fell in love with it right away. I can’t remember if this was also the Caron Simply Soft Party Yarn, which would have had the sparkle in it, or not, but that one was, and still is, one of my favorite brands to use for these hats. I’m pretty sure I can see a little sparkle in the hat, so I’m almost certain that is the yarn I used for this one.
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This hat was created from my Ninja Turtle Newsboy Hat and/or Beanie Pattern. Instead of doing the ties, as in the Ninja Turtle Pattern, I crocheted a flower instead. You can find my 3 Layer Flower Pattern that I shared on another post. You can also find my pattern for my Flower and Car Fringe Textured Scarf Pattern which I designed to go with this hat to make a beautiful textured set to give as a set.
I discussed above that one of my favorite yarns to stitch these in is the Caron Simply Soft Party yarn. Other good choices to use would be Vanna’s Choice and Red Heart Soft. I would recommend any of these. A good place to check out to see if you could find good sales on them are the Lion Brand Website or the Create For Less website.
Something else that comes in handy if you decide you’d like to stitch these sets up for yourself is a good set of crochet hooks. My favorite brand to use are the Knit Picks brand. They are so beautiful and it makes my heart happy just to look at them. Pictured below are the knitting needle version, of which they offer a mosaic wood version of the crochet hooks as well. I just love them. They also offer a padded handle set. I have a wooden set (although not the mosaic one…bummer…they didn’t offer that when I bought mine) and I have the padded set and I love both of them.
I also have a cute little set from Amazon that I love too. You can buy this one fairly inexpensively and it comes with some tools and notions that will be helpful too. Several buying options to choose from and I don’t think you can go wrong with any of them. 🙂 I don’t have the light up set pictured below but I think that looks kind of awesome and I may have to get one and try it out. I love that it’s rechargeable!
That should be about all you need if you want to try this one out. I have lots more of these sets coming up to share since I stitched SO many of these back when I wrote the patterns. They have been very popular items! Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help.
Happy Stitching!
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~Mindy~
