A Couple Crochet “Russian” Hats for Charity

I love crocheting in the evenings.  It’s a great way to relax.  I often start crocheting things in the fall and winter when we have less daylight.   I have a lot of single skeins of yarn, leftovers from other projects and bits and pieces I picked up at thrift stores, garage sales and estate sales.  I try to use up as much as possible.  Crocheting hats is a great way to use up some of my scrap yarn.

I decided to add a few hats as part of my hat donation package this year.   I had bought a couple of books to do crocheted hats over the summer and I wanted to make good use out of them.  In particular, I had bought one book just for the hat pattern, called Russian Hat.  I liked the onion dome look.

The first hat I made was this black, tan and and white one.  I’m using yarn from my stash rather than going out and buying yarn especially for the pattern.  The only problem with doing this is that the pattern sometimes needs to be adjusted a little.  I liked the finished hat, but I thought I could do better.

The “Russian Hat” pattern in the book above, fun & funky crochet by Sophie Britten uses a white yarn.  Since I had white yarn in my stash, I went ahead and made a white hat as well.  By the way, even though it isn’t advertise as a scrap yarn book, this book has many patterns that may help you use up your scrap yarn.

I thought the white hat would show the bobbles a little better than the black one.  I wasn’t disappointed, the bobbles do show up better in the white hat.

Unfortunately Maeve doesn’t have any hair, so she doesn’t fill out the hat as well as the model in the book.

I think I’ll pull out another book I bought this summer and make a few more hats before I send my hats off to a charitable organization.