Delano Hat in Lion Brand Go For Faux - Downloadable PDF

Lion Brand Go For Faux Delano Hat – Crochet Pattern Summary

The Delano Hat is a free, beginner-friendly crochet hat pattern designed by Lion Brand and worked in the luxuriously textured Lion Brand Go For Faux yarn. This cozy, faux-fur style hat features a classic rounded crown construction along with distinctive earflaps and a front flap, making it both a practical cold-weather accessory and a stylish statement piece. The finished hat measures approximately 21 inches in circumference and 7½ inches in height, offering a comfortable fit for most adults.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a crocheted winter hat with a shaped crown worked from the top down in the round, finished with earflaps and a front flap worked flat in rows directly onto the lower edge of the hat. The combination of the fluffy faux-fur yarn and the structured flap design gives the Delano Hat a distinctive, fashion-forward look reminiscent of a trapper-style hat, without requiring any advanced construction techniques.

Materials Used

• Yarn: Lion Brand Go For Faux (Art #322), color #206 Bear – 2 balls required. This is a super chunky weight novelty yarn with a faux-fur texture that adds warmth and visual interest with minimal stitch work.
• Crochet Hook: Lion Brand crochet hook, size N (10 mm) – appropriate for super chunky yarn and ideal for producing a fabric with good drape and density.
• Notions: A Lion Brand large-eyed blunt needle for weaving in ends and finishing.

Techniques Used

• Working in joined and turned rounds – The crown of the hat is constructed in rounds that are joined with a slip stitch and then turned before each new round. This turning technique creates a neat, consistent fabric even when working in the round.
• Working flat in rows – After the main body of the hat is complete, the crocheter transitions to working back and forth in rows to create the earflaps and front flap directly onto the lower edge of the hat, eliminating the need for separate seaming.
• Top-down crown shaping – The hat begins at the very top of the crown with a small foundation round and expands outward through strategic increase rounds, a common and beginner-friendly approach to hat construction.
• Decreasing – The sc2tog decrease stitch is used to shape the earflaps and front flap, neatly reducing stitch counts to form tapered edges.

Stitches Used

• Chain stitch (ch) – Used to begin the hat and to create turning chains at the start of rounds and rows.
• Single crochet (sc) – The primary stitch throughout the entire pattern, used for both the crown body and the flap sections. Single crochet creates a dense, sturdy fabric well-suited to the super chunky faux-fur yarn.
• Slip stitch (sl st) – Used to join each round, maintaining the circular structure of the hat body.
• sc2tog (single crochet two stitches together) – A decrease technique where the hook is inserted into two consecutive stitches, drawing up loops in each before completing the stitch. This reduces the stitch count by one and is used to shape the flaps.
• Increase (2 sc in one stitch) – Used during the crown shaping rounds to expand the circumference of the hat evenly from the top down.

Gauge and Sizing

The pattern specifies a gauge of 6½ single crochet stitches over 4 inches (10 cm) using the size N (10 mm) hook and Lion Brand Go For Faux yarn. Checking gauge before beginning is recommended, as the super chunky yarn and large hook can produce significant variation in finished size if tension differs from the pattern standard. The finished hat is sized for a standard adult head with a 21-inch circumference.

Skill Level and Accessibility

Rated as Easy by Lion Brand, the Delano Hat is an excellent project for beg