Crochet Watermelon Hat

My son requested a crochet watermelon hat the other day when he say this cute little watermelon Lego figure that we got his cousin for her birthday. Now he wants watermelon everything!

This hat was a breeze to make: a simple double crochet hat turned into a watermelon with a little bit of creative color work.

How to Crochet a Watermelon Hat

This watermelon hat is made with my basic crochet hat pattern with a little bit of extra color work.

Materials

• weight 4 (worsted) yarn in pink, black, white, and green
• 5.5 mm crochet hook

Note: you will need a whole ball of yarn in pink, but only scraps in black, white, and green.

See my basic crochet hat instructions for the gauge, size, and instructions for the basic hat. Then find the color-work instructions below for your specific hat size.

Watermelon Coloring Instructions

For ALL SIZES OF HATS:

Work the second-to-last double crochet round in white.

Work the last double crochet round in green, and the single crochet round(s) at the end in green.

To make the seeds, work a single crochet stitch in black – scatter these single black crochet stitches around the base of your hat.

SIZE-SPECIFIC COLOR-WORK INSTRUCTIONS:

Newborn

• Add single black stitches for 3 rounds, during round 6-8.
• Work round 9 in white.
• Work rounds 10-12 in green.

0-3 months

• Add single black stitches for 3 rounds, during round 8-10.
• Work round 11 in white.
• Work rounds 12-14 in green.

3-6 months

• Add single black stitches for 3 rounds, during round 9-11.
• Work round 12 in white.
• Work rounds 13-14 in green.

6-12 months

• Add single black stitches for 4 rounds, during round 9-12.
• Work round 13 in white.
• Work rounds 14-16 in green.

Toddler

• Add single black stitches for 4 rounds, during round 10-13.
• Work round 14 in white.
• Work rounds 15-17 in green.

Child

• Add single black stitches for 5 rounds, during round 11-15.
• Work round 16 in white.
• Work rounds 17-19 in green.

Adult Small

• Add single black stitches for 5 rounds, during round 12-16.
• Work round 17 in white.
• Work rounds 18-20 in green.

Adult Medium

• Add single black stitches for 6 rounds, during round 12-17.
• Work round 18 in white.
• Work rounds 19-21 in green.

Adult Large

• Add single black stitches for 6 rounds, during round 13-18.
• Work round 19 in white.
• Work rounds 20-22 in green.

Adult XL

• Add single black stitches for 6 rounds, during round 15-20.
• Work round 21 in white.
• Work rounds 22-23 in green.

How to Make the Watermelon Seeds

To make the watermelon seeds, make one double crochet stitch in black, spaced fairly evenly around the hat.

The seeds turn out best when you begin the color change at the end of the last stitch:

• with pink yarn: yarn over and pull through (you should have 3 loops on your hook); yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook
• switch to black yarn: yarn over and pull through remaining 2 loops on your hook

Then repeat the process with colors reversed.

• with black yarn: yarn over and pull through (you should have 3 loops on your hook); yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook
• with pink yarn: yarn over and pull through remaining 2 loops on your hook

Watermelon seed complete!

Note: it works best to have 5 or 6 or 7 little balls of black yarn, so that you are not using one strand of black for the whole hat.