Free Pattern - 1943 Chic & Classic Calot Hat #380

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1943 Chic & Classic Calot Hat #380

 MATERIALS: 

J & P Coats Knit-Cro-Sheen, 2 balls any color

Red Heart Knitting Worsted, 1 ball contrasting color

#5 Steel Crochet Hook

GAUGE: 

6 ½ sc = 1”;     8 rnds = 1”

Starting at tip of Crown with a double strand of Knit-Cro-Sheen, ch 4.  Join with sl st.

1^ST RND:  8 Sc in ring just made.  Do not join rnds.

2^ND RND:  * Sc in next sc, 2 sc in next sc [inc].  Rep from * around.

3^RD, 4^TH & 5^TH RNDS:  Sc in each sc around.

6^TH RND:  2 Sc in each sc around.

7^TH RND:  Sc in each sc around, inc wherever necessary to keep work flat.

Rep last rnd until piece measures 7 ½” in diameter, measuring across center & at base of point.

NEXT RND:  * Sc in each of next 9 sc, then work off the next 2 sc as 1 sc [dec].  Rep from * around.  Rep last rnd 3 more times.

LAST RND:  Sc in each sc around.  Fasten off.

Attach contrasting color of worsted & work without dec for 6 rnds.  Fasten off. 

Divide the first rnd of contrasting color into 12 equal parts & mark with pins. 

Thread a needle with contrasting color, work a row of back stitches from pin mark all the way up to top of Crown, always working 1 st to the left on each row [see photo].  Fasten off.

Work 11 more rows to correspond.

ENJOY!