Here’s your supreme stashbuster project! This pirate king-inspired striped hat features a crowned skull motif cross-stitched over a Tunisian patch, and an extended hat crown folded over and secured with a button. Tips are included for color arrangement and modifications, including a beanie style without the folded crown.

Sizes
Child (Teen/Adult, Adult Large)
To fit head circumference 18-20”/46-51cm (21-22”/53-56cm, 23-24”/58-61cm)

Finished Measurements
Circumference: 18”/46cm (20”/51cm, 22”/56cm)

Height (unfolded): 10.5”/26.5cm (11.5”/29.25cm, 13”/33cm)

Height (folded): 7.25”/18.5cm (8”/20.5cm, 8.75”/22cm)

Gauge
22 stitches and 24 rows over 4”/10cm in sc with larger hook

Materials
Yarn:
Fingering weight/sock yarn, 260yds/240m (350yds/320m, 430yds/400m) total, broken out into:

30yds/25m for patch

A few yards for skull motif

Pinstripe option: 70yds/65m (80yds/75m, 90yds/85m) of a single color for pinstripes

Stripes x8: 20yds/19m (30yds/28m, 40yds/37m) each for option with pinstripes

OR

Stripes x8: 30yds/27m (40yds/37m, 50yds/47m) each for option without pinstripes

Hooks:
3.5mm/E, or size required to meet gauge, for hat body

2.5mm or 2.75mm/C Tunisian or standard non-ergonomic hook for patch

If you don’t have a Tunisian hook, the patch can be worked with a standard crochet hook (with a straight shaft; no enlarged handle, buta flattened thumb rest is acceptable). Ergonomic hooks with wide handles cannot be used for this.

Notions:
One 1.25”/32mm button

Stainless steel T-pins or quilting pins

Yarn needle

Scissors or snips