Charity Baby Hat (Free Pattern)

I designed this hat for a service learning project I was involved in for a college course. My group and I would get together every week and teach people at a local senior center to knit and crochet. All the finished projects would be donated. We ended up making quite a few of these little baby hats, so I thought the pattern would be worth sharing. 

Size: 11 inch circumference.

Materials: About 40-50 yards of worsted weight yarn.

Hook: J (6 mm).

Gauge: 3 double crochet and 2 rows to the inch.

Hat:

Note: The chain 3 at the beginning of each round counts as 1 dc.

Round 1: Chain 3, make 11 more dc in third stitch from hook.  Join with sl st to top of first chain.

Round 2: Chain 3, dc in same stitch as last sl st.  2 dc in each dc around. (24 dc) Join.

Round 3: Chain 3, dc in each dc around. (24 dc) Join.

Round 4: Chain 3, dc in same stitch as last sl st, *dc in each of next 2 dc, 2 dc in next dc, repeat from * to last 2 stitches.  Dc in each of next 2 dc.  Join. (32 dc)

Rounds 5-11: Chain 3, dc in each dc around. (32 dc) Join. Fasten off. 

Weave in ends.

This pattern can also be found here on Ravelry.