Brickhouse Bucket Hat: Free Crochet Pattern

Bucket hats are all the rage anymore. If you’re looking for a free bucket hat crochet pattern, this is it! The Brickhouse Bucket Hat is a free crochet pattern that has texture, is super chic, and is easy to crochet as well!

Brickhouse Bucket Hat

I like to go on walks every morning to get my day started and the juices flowing. I love to walk my laps around the park and listen to the birds, and to feel the morning sunshine on my face. As I grow older, however, I realize that protecting my skin is more and more important. It’s no wonder bucket hats are so popular!

This bucket hat crochet pattern is so quick to work up. I can whip one up in an afternoon! I love that I can change up the color of yarn that I use to match my favorite shirts or leggings. The staple black will go with anything, and I think a white or gray would be super cute, too.

You could also do one in your school colors as I have done for my son here. Every Friday is “wear green day” at school and he is so excited to take this with him. He’ll be all decked out at football games and other school activities as well. He was just so excited that I designed this one for him and he couldn’t stop smiling. ♥

What yarn to use to crochet a bucket hat:

For this bucket hat pattern you will want to use a worsted weight 100% cotton yarn. This could be scraps even, because they only take about 185 yards of yarn! If you’re using three colors as I used in my son’s bucket hat, plan for 60-70 yards of each to be safe. That’s an even better opportunity to use up odd balls of cotton.

What’s great about Dishie cotton is that if you are purchasing yarn for this purpose (instead of using scraps) just one skein is MORE than enough for one hat. Each Dishie skein has 190 yards. Perfect! Or, if you grabbed a Dishie Cone of yarn you could get FOUR hats from just one of them.

How to crochet a bucket hat:

Materials:

100% worsted weight cotton yarn (Dishie cotton pictured)
-approx. 185 yards

Crochet hook in size G/4mm

Gauge: 12 hdc stitches in 4″

Pattern Notes:

FLO = Front Loop Only

BLO = Back Loop Only

Bphdc = Back Post Half Double Crochet (tutorial here)

Hat body uses the Brick Stitch (tutorial here)

Magic Circle alternative = ch-6, sl st to first ch made.

Crab Stitch (optional finishing row, tutorial here)

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Pattern:

Using Color A

Round 1: Magic Circle, 12hdc in circle. Do not join, work in a spiral, marking the first stitch of each row with a stitch marker. (12)

Round 2: 2hdc in each st around. (24)

Round 3: * hdc in next, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (36)

Round 4: * hdc in next 2 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (48)

Round 5: * hdc in next 3 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (60)

Round 6: * hdc in next 4 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (72)

Round 7: hdc in each st around. (72)

Round 8: * hdc in next 5 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (84)

Round 9: hdc in each st around. (84)

Crown should be approx. 7″ in diameter.

Round 10: Sl st in next st. Ch-1, Bphdc in each st around. Join to top of first st. (84)

Change to color B if desired. For the main body we will join and turn.

Round 11: Ch-1, do not turn, sc in each st around. Join to top of first sc. (84)

Round 12: Ch-1, turn, sc in FLO of each st around. Join to top of first sc. (84)

Round 13: Ch-2, turn, dc in next 2 sts, dc in FLO of st from 2 rows below. * dc in next 3 sts, dc in FLO of st from 2 rows below * repeat between * * around. Dc in last st. Join to top of first dc. (84)

Round 14: Ch-1, turn, sc in FLO of each st around. Join to top of first sc. (84)

Round 15: Ch-2, turn, * dc in FLO of st from 2 rows below, dc in next 3 sts *repeat between * * around. Join to top of first dc. (84)

Rounds 16 – 19: repeat rounds 12 -15 (84)

Round 20: Loosely sl st in BLO of each st around. Do not join, work in a spiral for the remainder of the pattern. (84)

Change to Color C if desired.

Round 21: * hdc in 11 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (91)

Round 22: Hdc in next 6 sts, 2hdc in next * hdc in next 12 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around, hdc in remaining 6 sts. (98)

Round 23: * hdc in 13 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (105)

Round 24: Hdc in next 7 sts, 2hdc in next * hdc in next 14 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around, hdc in remaining 7 sts. (112)

Round 25: * hdc in 15 sts, 2hdc in next * repeat between * * around. (119)

Round 26: Hdc in each st around. (119)

Round 27: sc in each st around, sl st in next st.

Optional edging row: Sl st to next st. Crab st in each st around. (119)

Pull yarn through and weave in all ends.

That is it! Super fun, super quick, and easily customizable to your color preference or palette. Please share a photo with me by tagging @HeartHookHome on all social media and in the Heart Hook Home Crochet Community on Facebook so I can see. 🤩

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