No Sew Hats

These little no-sew hats are a great project for anyone who wants to help but doesn't sew. They're quick and easy and nice and stretchy (one of the most important things for angel hats)

Look at how much these little hats stretch!

Hat un-stretched

Hat stretched wide

Ok here's how to make these no-sew hats:

This is the main thing you need to get started:

This is my favorite place to buy the stockinette so far - Express Medical Supply. I have yet to find it in local stores. If anyone has another good resource for finding this, let me know!

Orthopedic Stockinette
Cotten Stockinette is a tan/flesh color

Synthetic Stockinette is white - or at least closer to white. It's a little off white, but close enough.

For the smallest hats (less than 20 weeks) you'll need 2" wide

20-26 weeks = 3" wide

26-32 weeks = 4" wide

As for length you'll need about 8" for 2" wide, 11" for the 3" wide, and 15" for the 4" wide

For this tutorial I'll be using the 4 " wide stockinette and making one of the larger hats.

First fold the stockinette inside of it's self. It should be doubly thick, with all the cut ends at the same end.

Be careful not to let it get twisted up. You want it to lay nice and flat once it's folded up.

Pinch all the ends together

And then secure the pinch with a piece of ribbon tied tightly. I generally put a bow in the ribbon for little girl hats and knot the ribbon for little boy hats.

Fold the brim up an inch or two

And you can be done right there! the hat is ready to go. But if you want to add some embellishments keep reading:

One of the easiest ways to embellish the hats is to add a shank button to the ribbon. Shank buttons have a little loop on the back of the button. It's a lot easier to tie on than a button with the regular holes in it.

You can also hot glue little ribbon roses to the ribbon for an easy embellishment:

 Finished hat sizes - they're half the original length you cut, but that makes it so there's no cut edges except at the top which is tied with a cute ribbon so it's not bothersome.

THIS is where I learned to do this

Crochet Blanket Borders

I don't have a lot of links for these, but here are some beautiful edges we've seen lately. If anyone has links/documents they'd like to add to this post, let me know. I'd love to have more links for doing edges. I don't know how to do edges as much as I'd like.

Fanciful Fences: http://newstitchaday.com/how-to-crochet-the-fanciful-fences-stitch/
For this stitch make sure to turn the blanket over between the foundation row and Row 1. I also do hdc instead of dc to make it a little smaller with the Caron yarn. On each corner on Row 1 I do: [2dc, ch 2, 2dc, ch 2, 2dc] 

And here are a few links I do have:

Star Edge: http://yarncrazygirlpatterns.blogspot.com/2009/11/star-edging.html

Quick Blanket Edges: http://www.petalstopicots.com/2012/04/quick-and-easy-crocheted-blanket-edging-patterns/

Princess Edge: http://www.caddesignllc.com/free patterns/ammees_princess_edge_0608.htm

Pillow Case edges: http://sara-vs-sarah.blogspot.com/2011/08/crochet-edge-pillowcase-tutorial-part-2.html

A few ideas (not tutorials): http://rosehip.typepad.com/rose_hip_blog/page/2/

Festive Edge: http://elisabethandree.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/festive-blanket-part-2-the-edge/

Chain Frill: http://www.how-to-crochet-instructions.com/crochet-edgings.html

Pumpkin Patch: http://fiberflux.blogspot.it/2012/09/free-crochet-patternpumpkin-patch-edging.html

Reverse Single Crochet (or crab stitch): http://www.fuoriborgo.com/fuoriborgo/2011/05/reverse-single-crochet-a-simple-finishing-stitch.html

Pointy Bits: http://crochethealingandraymond.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/coffee-vs-computer/