Learn How To Close The Top Of A Crochet Hat in this detailed step by step tutorial with video and photos.
Crochet hats can be made as crocheted tubes and also rectangles that are then assembled at the end.
In this tutorial I’m showing you how to seam beanies closed at the top of the hat.
All you need is a yarn needle, a crocheted hat as well as a long yarn end with the color used when crocheting the hat. You don’t nee any other thread to follow this tutorial.
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About the How To Close The Top Of A Crochet Hat
Learn how to close the top of a crochet hat. You can follow this tutorial on how to close the top of a hat with any crochet hat size, made any crochet hook size and weight yarn.
Project level: Easy
Materials
- Yarn Needle
- Crocheted Hat Ready To Close (or knit hat)
- Same Yarn As Used For The Hat
You can follow this tutorial on how to close the top of a hat with any crochet hat size, made any crochet hook size and weight yarn. Example in video and tutorial used one skein worsted weight yarn.
Instructions for the How To Close The Top Of A Crochet Hat
Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
Crocheting hats as rectangles and tubes are quite easy for beginners and you don’t have to do complex decreasing and increasing.
With the steps in this detailed tutorial, you’ll be able to crochet a hat and close the top easily.
Grab your unfinished crochet hat. You should have a finished crocheted tube to turn into a crochet hat with this tutorial. It can be a crocheted rectangle that you have seamed at the side using the whip stitch or a tube crocheted in rounds.Find hat patterns further down.
Thread your needle with a long yarn tail.
Insert needle from right side to wrong side and pull yarn through. Repeat approximately every 1 inch / 2.5 cm.
Repeat inserting yarn and puling yarn through 4-6 times.
Pull yarn tail gently to start closing the hat.
Continue and seam a few more stitches every 1 inch / 2.5 cm. Then pull the yarn to close more of the crochet beanie.
When you have seamed every 1 inch / 2.5 cm. Pull hat fully closed.
With the needle. Seam closed to opposite side. Repeating a few time to fully close beanie.
Make sure you pull tight as you are seaming to avoid gaps as shown in the photo.
Since you seamed every 1 inch / 2.5 cm, you will have a few “pointy ends”. Make sure you seam through them as well to fully close the crochet hat.
Pull the needle through to weave in the yarn tail on the inside of the hat and fold.
To finish off, weave in the yarn on the inside of the crochet beanie. Then cut yarn.
After you cut the yarn, make sure you have the right side out. The beanie is ready to be used. Optional: Finish your crochet hat with a faux fur pom pom or use a pom-pom maker to make a yarn pom pom.
