Ollie Slouchy Beanie

Design by Marie Segares/Underground Crafter.

This gender-neutral, textured, slouchy beanie combines simple stripes with a traveling stitch pattern. A matching Ollie Cowl pattern is available in teen and adult sizes.

Teen/Adult Small: 21” (53.5 cm) hat circumference x 8.5” (21.5 cm) height.

Skills Used

• Basic crochet stitches: chain, double crochet, single crochet, slip stitch
• Crocheting flat in rows, crocheting in the round
• Crocheting in the back loop (includes linked video tutorials)
• Seaming with mattress stitch (includes linked photo and video tutorials)
• Cinching a bottom-up hat closed (includes linked photo tutorial)
• Special stitches: dc2tog, pf, sc2tog (includes written description in pattern and links to video tutorials)

Materials

• King Cole Homespun DK yarn (22% superwash Merino/22% alpaca/23% polyamide/23% acrylic/10% viscose), 1.75 oz/50 g/191 yd/175 m) in 5104 Midnight Sky (CA) and 5109 Sea Breeze (CB) – 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2) skeins each, or approximately 65 yd (100 yd, 125 yd, 160 yd, 170 yd, 190 yd, 205 yd)/59.5 m (91.5 m, 114.5 m, 146.5 m, 155.5 m, 174 m, 187.5 m) in each of 2 colors any light weight yarn.
• US Size F-5/3.75 mm crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge.
• US Size G-6/4 mm crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge.
• Yarn needle.

Skill Level: Intermediate