How to Crochet Baby Teddy Bear Hat for Gift-Giving
In this post, you’ll learn how to crochet an embellished baby teddy bear hat for babies aged between three to six months with a step-by-step tutorial from Storybook Crochet. You can also watch the tutorials for the sizes from premie to 12 months available in the description of the tutorial. This hat features cute teddy bear ears in solid color and embellished further with a little flower applique.
The tutor indicates that this hat is a fairly simple project, suitable for beginners. If you prefer, you can purchase a PDF version of all four hat sizes from Etsy or Ravelry. You can make this hat even more special using other embellishments. It can be an equally great baby shower gift and birthday gift.
You can find the complete video guide for crocheting this baby teddy bear hat at the end of this post. For learning more about this guide follow through with us below.
Skills Used: Working in continuous rounds, single crochet, and shaping through increases and decreases. It also demonstrates how to create a seamless finish by properly joining rounds and how to securely attach components like the ears to the hat.
Guide Span: 9 Minutes Only
Personalization Tips: Personalization options for the teddy bear hat include changing the yarn colors to represent different animals, such as gray for a koala or black and white for a panda. Add decorative elements like flowers, bows, bees or embroidered features to make the hat unique.
Crochet Baby Teddy Bear Hat Tutorial
This tutorial is concise and spans only 9 minutes to help you crochet a sweet teddy bear hat for babies quickly. The focus on ear shaping and seamless attachment ensures will ensure a professional finish. As a tip, when making the ears, use a stitch marker to keep track of your rounds to ensure your ears come out even. You will find a lot of other tips throughout this guide. Here is a quick overview of the tutorial:
- Supplies Needed: You’ll need worsted yarn in your preferred color, an H crochet hook, a yarn needle, and scissors. Optional PDF patterns for various sizes are linked.
- Making the Ears: The ears are crocheted in the round using single crochets, with increases for shaping and a final decrease to achieve a rounded look.
- Attaching the Ears: The ears are sewn onto the hat with a yarn needle, ensuring proper placement for symmetry.
- Optional Embellishments: Add flowers, bees, or other decorations for personalization.
Supplies Mentioned
Gather these supplies to get the same results for crocheting this hat:
- Worsted weight yarn in a color of your choice.
- H (5.0mm) crochet hook.
- Yarn needle for assembly.
- Scissors.
Abbreviations Used
While describing the crochet teddy bear baby hat in on-screen instructions, the tutor uses the following crochet abbreviations. Below we have given quick written instructions for the stitches also:
- sc (Single Crochet): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through both loops on the hook.
- inc (Increase): Make two single crochets in the same stitch.
- dec (Decrease): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through all loops on the hook.
- sl st (Slip Stitch): Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, then pull that loop through the loop already on the hook.
- ch (Chain): Yarn over, pull through the loop on the hook.
