The Falling Feather beanie is a feather stitch crochet hat pattern with a soft and squishy texture for all the warmth. It’s thick and cosy without using a bulky yarn, coming sizes from newborn to large adult.
Like to match? Try the coordinating feather stitch crochet mittens pattern!
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This post contains the free crochet pattern for adult sizes small, medium and large. Links to the ad-free PDF version including all baby and child sizes can be found below.
Feather Stitch Crochet Hat
You will need
- <270 yards or 140g of aran/worsted weight yarn
- 4.5mm hook
- Scissors and needle for finishing
- Pom pom
Concentration Level
Intermediate, with this stitch pattern it’s easy to miss a stitch or miscount.
Stitch Terms & Abbreviations
Chain – ch
Slip Stitch – sl st
Stitch(es) – st(s)
Skip – sk
Half Double Crochet – hdc
Single Crochet – sc
Double Crochet – dc
Decrease – dec
Feather Stitch – fs
Special Stitches
Feather Stitch:
- Yarn over (YO), pull up a loop through the ch1 sp (3 loops on hook)
- YO, pull up a loop through the stitch directly underneath from the row below (5 on hook)
- YO, pull up a loop through the next ch1 sp (7 on hook)
- YO, pull through all loops, ch1
- Start the next feather stitch from the same chain space as the last.
- Video here on my YouTube channel
Dec:
when decreasing on the sc rows, *sc, ch1, sk1* as normal.
On the dec stitch:
skip 2 sts
pull up a loop from the 3rd st
pull up a loop from the 4th st
pull through both loops
sc2tog:
Pull up a loop from the 1st st
Pull up a loop from the 2nd st
YO and pull through both loops
dc2tog:
The dc2tog is worked the following way so that it looks similar to the feather stitch:
YO, pull up a loop from the 1st st
YO, pull up a loop from the 2nd st
YO, pull through 4 out of 5 loops
YO, pull through remaining loops
Free Feather Stitch Crochet Hat Pattern
Counts for each size will be in the format (S, M, L)
Ribbing
Row 1: ch11, sc in 2nd ch from hook and to the end (10)
Row 2: ch1, turn, sc in the back loop of each st (10)
Repeat Row 2 until you have (93, 97, 101) rows.
Join the first and last rows with sl sts to form a loop. Turn the right way round to continue, leaving the sl sts on the inside.
Hat Body
Row 1: turn to work horizontally, ch1, sc in the top of each ribbed row, sl st (93, 97, 101)
Row 2: ch1, sc, *ch1, sk1, sc* repeat * around, sl st
Row 3: ch2, hdc, ch1, work a row of feather stitch starting from the next st, you’ll have (45, 47, 49) fs in total. Finish with hdc, sl st
Row 4: Repeat Row 2
Row 5: Repeat Row 3 (45, 47, 49 fs)
Row 6: Repeat Row 2, (sc row) working 4 dec sts evenly across the row
Row 7: Repeat Row 3 (fs row) (44, 46, 48 fs)
Row 8: Repeat Row 2 (sc row)
Row 9: Repeat Row 3 (fs row) (44, 46, 48 fs)
Row 10: Repeat Row 2, (sc row) working 4 dec sts evenly across the row
Row 11: Repeat Row 3 (fs row) (43, 45, 47 fs)
Row 12: Repeat Row 2 (sc row)
Row 13: Repeat Row 3 (fs row) (43, 45, 47 fs)
Row 14 (S, M): ch1, [*sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x3, dec, *sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x4, dec] repeat [] for the row
Row 14 (L): ch1, [*sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x4, dec] repeat [] for the row
Row 15: Repeat Row 3 (fs row) (39, 41, 44 fs)
Row 16 (S): ch1, [*sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x4, dec] repeat [] for the row
Row 16 (M): ch1, [*sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x4, dec, *sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x5, dec] repeat [] for the row
Row 16 (L): ch1, [*sc, ch1, sk1* repeat * x5, dec] repeat [] for the row
Links to the ad-free feather stitch crochet hat PDF version including all baby and child sizes can be found below!