Lively Up!

If you want to find cool hat patterns, get the book "Hip Hats and Cool caps" by Afya Ibomu. I just love all of the patterns in there, and they are all so easy to do! Here's a picture of her "Lively Up" hat that I just completed. I used Worsted Acrylic, really cheap stuff from Walmart. And It's the most comfy hat ever. I just won't take it off!

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Ok... having trouble uploading picture... How do I do it???

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tells how I did it using Flickr. It's the only way I know how but others might be able to chime in! Would love to see your pictures!

I hope the upload works this time!

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That's the LivelyUp! hat from the book.

Great looking hat, cute model. I love brimmed hats. Is yours all yarn or do you have something like plastic mesh inside?

It's 100% acrylic. The author of the book adds cord elastic to most of her hats, but I personnaly don't like the feel of elastic around my head. Anyway, I wore it a lot, and it doesn't seem to want to stretch. I guess you have to make sure it fits snug around you head before you make the slst seam to close it up.

For the bib, there's nothing inside. I find it a bit floppy, but it's just a little bib, so it doesn't really matter. But I would definately suggest you use something to shape it if you plan on a bigger bib. For a brim, I think a narrow, straight or wavy brim would be fine without extra mesh or plastic.

I did think about adding a plastic piece that I would crochet right in the bib, but I actually don't know how to do it! Anyone knows?

By "all yarn", I meant the brim, the bill, the flap thing on a baseball cap that gets worn in back where it's useless. Is that what you call the bib? Yours looks large enough to keep the rain off your glasses and to shade your eyes in the sun.

I've seen some brim/bib patterns with plastic mesh, the kind you embroider, tucked in between two layers of crochet. That should provide lots of body but a chunky brim.

I've always wondered if a length of weed-eater nylon line along the outer edge of the brim would give it body. You'd crochet over it to attach it and hide it, of course. One of these days I'll try it.

I agree about not liking elastic in hats. After a bit, it gives me a headache.

Yeah, I guess the nylon would help. And yes, I call it a bib when it's like a baseball cap (only in front), and a brim when it goes all around the hat.

Ah, bib - brim, that makes all sorts of sense.

No matter what you call it, it's really cute!

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That book is filled with really cool patterns. I have made two of the ball cap style hats already, one for the hubby and one for a friend who saw the one for hubby! I had difficulty in getting the bib to behave--it wanted to do a wave. Any tips?

I had to redo the bib on my first hat. I think the secret is to keep it pretty thight, especially around the edge, and to tweek the pattern if you need... If I remember well, I ended up with less stitches than what she called for.

In fact, when you crochet, if something tells you there's something wrong, or wavy or whatever, chances are, you're right. You gotta FEEL the crochet baby!

Yeah, know what you mean about feeling the crochet. I only used one strand instead of the instructed two strands for the last row because it was shooting straight out from the hat with two strands no matter what I did!