flap hats in Florida

[crochetobsession]

Ha! We do go to cold places sometimes, so the men in my life wanted earflap hats. Here are blog links to my husband's and my son's hats:

http://crochetobsession.mycrochetblog.com/?p=23

http://crochetobsession.mycrochetblog.com/?p=24

[mustnggrrl00]

Awesome, I totally dig them both!

[123mama]

They are really neat.

sondra

[buggaboosmommy]

I love your hats! So creative :)

Donna

[yarnjunkie]

Great job, I really liked the colors :hook

[faithpa76]

I love the yarn! Very nice!

[lynie]

Awesome Hats! Your husbands eyes totally match the color of the yarn.

[Jewels]

Great job on the earflap hats!!

[pb&j]

Very nice! Love the colors and design! They look very cozy. :tup

[ZingyZoid]

I really like those. Great work.

[rebeccav]

great hats! i love your son's :manyheart:cheer:cheer:cheer

[yarncat]

Awesome hats!!

[donnalynn2]

I wish I would have stumbled upon this site sooner! I made a hat with flaps for my brother for Christmas (he lives up north) and couldn't find one that I liked so I basically just added flaps to a regular crochet hat pattern. It turned out ok, but I like yours better...

[HappyknitandcrochetFreak]

Very nice hats:)

And living in Norway:wbrr, we make a lot of hats for the winter

[gingerchai]

nice hats, that brown yarn is luscious!

tracy

[keywestmommy]

I love those hats! Is that a free pattern or a paid pattern?

[Linda]

Great job!

[YaYa Yarnhood]

Love 'em both! Great Job!

[crochetobsession]

I love those hats! Is that a free pattern or a paid pattern?

Thanks for asking! My husband's hat was part pattern/part winging-it. Here's the quote from the blog site:
"I used mostly the hat pattern in the Interweave Knits 2004 Crochet issue ...I wanted the look of a rolled brim hat without the bulkiness. So I added a border of front-post stitch, then alternated front post and back post (every 3 stiches) to create a cabled look, then another border of just front-post. I added the earflaps after this point (earflap width was 19 stiches, 'I' hook). I then did a little chain to hold the toggle to pull the earflaps back by going back over the chain with slip stitches."

My little boy's hat was pure winging it. I used dc instead of the hdc I used in my husband's hat. Then when I just finshed the top part, I stuck it on my kid's head while I marked where his ears were with bobby pins. (This is tough with a wiggly 3 year old!) Then just decreased stiches to form the flap part.

If you have any other questions, you may post or email!

[carrieanne]

Great hats! They do look warm!

[ReneeH]

Love them~my husband loves flap hats,too.