I searched for tutorial videos on the internet to help me starting out. I thought it would be very easy, but found it to be quite difficult. At first I just start with a crochet hook and some wool that I already had. But the wool was too thick for the hook, which I didn't know until I watched a video that explained how you know what hook goes with what wool (for people that don't know, on the label of the wool it sais what size of needle you need, and on the crochet hook it sais what size it is). Besides that the wool I had was very.... woolly... It had lots of threads that sort of got in the way and I couldn't see where the put my needle. So I bought a new hook and some wool that was not so fluffy. That helped a lot!
The first thing I tried to make was a hat. Only in the video they used thicker wool and of course also a thicker hook. So I thought that if I would do exactly the same, I would just get a baby hat. That didn't work, I got an egg cosy! Oh no, it was even too small for my egg, haha!
Again I was trying to make a hat, but this time the aim was to make a baby hat in the first place. This time I didn't follow the pattern exactly, because I already saw that then the hat would become too small again. So I did a few more rows of increasing, until I thought the top of the hat was big enough. I made a little bow to increase the cuteness of the hat, and this is the result!
And then the beautiful Frederique was born, the little baby girl of a colleague of my boyfriend. We gave her the hat. It was a little bit to big, but the parents liked the gift anyway. Isn't she cute with my first crocheted hat?
