Crochet Duck Hat Pattern

Embrace spring with this really cute and simple Crochet Duck Hat Pattern. The best part of the hat pattern is that it can be easily adjusted for all head sizes!

Spring is pretty great, the flowers are in bloom, there is a fresh breeze in the air, and cute baby animals. I love animals so much that I love crocheting them, as seen with my crochet penguin plushie, crochet giraffe, crochet polar bear hat, crochet frog hat, and even turning food into animals like my crochet concha bunnies.

My newest creation? A crochet duck hat, specifically a crochet duck bucket hat. I always tend to make crochet beanie patterns, but with the weather warming up, I thought it would be good to go and make a crochet bucket hat for my 5 year old. 

The crochet duck hat pattern is fairly simple to construct as it mostly uses just regular single crochet stitches. I chose to use single crochets because it holds its shape better than double crochets, so the hat retains its classic bucket hat shape better. 

I love making hat patterns but enjoy making them very open ended so that if you want a specific size, you can easily figure out if you should make one smaller or larger based on your measurements. Also, I understand that all head sizes are different and so is a crocheter's tension.

🪡 Materials Needed

• Lily sugar n cream yellow cotton yarn
• A little bit of black yarn for eyes
• A little bit of orange yarn for the mouth
• 4.5mm hook
• Tapestry needle
• Soft tape measure

💭Abbreviations to Remember (US terms)

• Magic ring - mr
• Single crochet - sc
• Increase - inc
• Back loop only - blo

🧋Variations

You can easily change the sizing of the hat to fit your needs, as well as change the color and character entirely. This is a basic bucket hat and can be used as a basis for many designs.

🍵Instructions for Crochet Duck Hat Pattern

How to crochet a bucket hat:

This is for a hat that can fit a 5 year old (about 20.5 inches in circumference), adjust the size if you need it bigger or smaller. I tend to crochet pretty tightly. 

Of course, things like hair can affect the size needed so keep that in mind as well as you make them.

If making your own hat:

My suggestion is to measure your head's circumference of the crown, write down those measurements, then build your hat based on those measurements before you start the back loop only round. This will make it the most accurate with little frustration and ripping stitches out. 

If making a hat for an adult that is not yourself or someone you can measure their head:

Make your last round before the back loop only row 22-23 inches in circumference. Depending on your tension and yarn thickness, this would be near 90 stitches in the round (more or less).

Now that we got that out of the way, onto the duck bucket hat crochet pattern!

Round 1: Using the yellow cotton yarn, make a mr and then sc x6 into the mr. (6)

Round 2: Inc in every sc. (12)

Round 3: Inc, sc. Then repeat until end of round (18)

Round 4: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat until end of round (24)

Round 5: Inc, sc x3. Then repeat until end of round (30)

Round 6: Inc, sc x4. Then repeat until end of round (36)

Round 7: Inc, sc x5. Then repeat until end of round (42)

Round 8: Inc, sc x6. Then repeat until end of round (48)

Round 9: Inc, sc x7. Then repeat until end of round (54)

Round 10: Inc, sc x8. Then repeat until end of round (60)

Round 11: Inc, sc x9. Then repeat until end of round (66)

Round 12: Inc, sc x10. Then repeat until end of round (72)

Round 13: Blo sc in every sc. (72).

Round 14-28: Sc in every stitch (72). (For adult hats add 2-3 more rounds)

Round 29: Now we are starting on the rim. Inc, sc x5. Then repeat for the rest of the round (84).

If you changed the hat size, that's fine, it just requires a bit of math.

You are to make 12 increases total in this round so divide the number of stitches you currently have by 12. Like so 72 / 6 = 12.

I made an increase with one of the stitches and then normally sc for the other 5 stitches. Yours might be inc, sc x6 or 7 - that's totally okay and if you have extra stitches just fudge it a little. This is a very forgiving hat.

Round 30: Sc in every stitch (84).

Round 31: Inc, then sc x6. Then repeat until the end of the round. (96). We increased by 12 so if you have a different hat size use the same method above for this round.

Round 32: The next couple of rounds is where the hat rim gets frilly, if you prefer to have zero frills - just continue to repeat an increase row of 12 with a sc row with no increases after it. 

Inc, sc x2. Then repeat until the end of the round. (128). 

We increased by 32 on this round. You increase more or less depending on frill preferences.  Having more increases will create a more frilly edge, less but more than 12 increases will create a wavy edge.

Round 33: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat for the rest of the round. (170). Add more rows if you want a larger wavier rim, otherwise fasten off and weave in the tails.

Embroidery:

With the tapestry needle, embroider a small lined mouth in the middle of the hat roughly an inch to two inches long with orange yarn. I made 3 passes for my hat's mouth.

Then when that is done make eyes with the black yarn north of the sides of the mouth. I made those about ¾ of an inch long. 

Once that's done your crochet duck bucket hat is all done!

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