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Love Your Pussy Hat (Free Pattern)

Hook: 4mm

Yarn: Any DK weight yarn (I used marriner DK 100% acrylic in magenta)

Yardage: Approx 180m/ 195yds

This pattern is in US Crochet terms

US > UK conversion:
chain(ch) > chain(ch)
single crochet (sc) > double crochet (dc)
double crochet (dc) > treble (tr)
half double crochet (hdc) > half treble (htr)
triple crochet (trc) > double treble (dtr)
slip stitch (sl st) > slip stitch (sl st)


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Step 1: Ribbing

FDC the diameter of your head minus 2-5 stitches (depending on how tight/fitted you want it to be, I made it three stitches smaller and can fit a small messy bun of hair under it completed) Join in the round.

Step 2:

A)c3,*Fptc 2, sc 2* slpst into starting chain.

B)Dc around

Repeat step 2a &b twice more

Step 3: Set up round:
C3, in second stitch from chain *DC four times keeping the loops loose, yo and pull through all loops, chain 1, Dc four times keeping the loops loose, yo and pull through all loops, c1, skip 3 stitches* to end, slpst in starting chain.

Step 4: Pattern repeat

C3, *in center of the heart below DC four times keeping the loops loose, yo and pull through all loops, chain 1, in the same space as the previous loops Dc four times keeping the loops loose, yo and pull through all loops, c1* to end, slpst in starting chain.

Repeat step four until the hat would fit if closed here. FO leave tail for weaving in.

Step 5: Love your Pussy
(I’ll wait… ) :
Turn the hat inside out. Join the same MC yarn through a
chain 1 space between hearts approx. 1/3 of the way between either side of the hat.

Because I have 18 hearts on every round I will be sc’ing Sc across in every chain space of three hearts in the middle, you may sc more or less. BO and weave in the end.

Step 6: pull the newly formed ears inside out and sew or sc around the edges of them in order to close the gap.

7: weave in all ends if you haven’t already

Complete Pattern Chart:

Note:Please ignore that the bobble stitch shows five YO’s i couldn’t get the chart maker to give a 4 YO’s bobble stitch option.

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My completed hat took 13 rows of hearts and a little sewing to get pointy ears.

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You can download the PDF (with dyslexie large print font) and add this pattern to your library, favorites or queues on Ravelry here.

Designers note:

Everything is political now.

This pattern is free, please share it widely but I ask that you do not seek to profit from it’s use in any way shape or form.

If you wish to engage in political activism I invite you to smile at a Muslim or non-white person in your town, attend a protest if you feel safe doing so, write to your government representatives, sign petitions, raise awareness on social media or take any other peaceful and legal actions you feel are appropriate and necessary.

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It is a thing I do where on major dates my dad and I find out way to my mums grave and stand there and chat and drink and he smokes (I quit last year) and share the occasion with her.

This New Year’s Day we were both hung over but we still made it. When we got there it was bitterly bitterly cold. We normally stay for about 40 mins, 15 and we were back in the car. We’re northerners, we’re not soft. That’s how cold we were.

Dad’s big beef was his ears, they were cold. Three days later I dropped into his place with the dad hat. Big enough to fit a 24" head and tall enough he could roll it to wear and look like a bin man from the 1930s (he picked the colour of it!) or pull down over his ears.

It was a simple make (us terms, a US sc is a UK dc)

Colour one:

1: FSC for 23" and join in the round
2: Dc around
¾: *2 sc, 2trc* around

Colour 2:
Dec around for as many rows as you want it to be tall

Decrease 12 stitches per round using dc2tog until finished.

(Dad doesn’t like his face going on the inter webs)