Hooked on hats

After my initial foray into crocheting, I wanted to start on a wearable small project. So that's where hats came in. I figured that crocheting a hat had to be something akin to knitting a scarf. So off I went to find out how. So I started with instructions from threadbanger for a hat that was rather similar to the amigurumi that I was previously making. It was simply single crochets in a spiral. Then I added a little crochet flower for embellishment. The flower I originally made was this loopy flower but it just didn't fit that hat so I took what I learned from there and made my own simpler flower.

After my first hat was completed I started onto a second one. Since I had already done so much single crocheting, I wanted to do some double crochet stitches. So I made a hat consisting mostly of double crochet in rounds (I read about working in rounds and I think I figured it out now, but I can't be certain). And then I threw in some rows of puff stitches at the end. Of course since I didn't use a pattern and I made it up as I went along it ended up in a funny shape. So it was a bit of a failed hat :(

This did not dissuade me from making yet another hat, and throwing in yet another complication. Bored with the monochrome creations, I wanted to work with more than one colour! So after studying a few patterns on how to shape a hat to ones head (and constantly testing what I was making on my own head) I was at it again. To the left is the hat that I made up to fit my head(the pink and brown one).