Columbia Minerva Bucket Hat 1972

​This week's hat comes from Columbia Minerva's "Teach Yourself to Crochet", published in 1972. The booklet has a lot of adorable patterns that look fun to make. Before we get to the bucket hat here are a few of the pattern photos from the booklet.
​First the ones that have dog sweaters in the pictures:

​Cardigans and Blazers:

​A Shawl, Poncho and Shrink:

There aren't a lot of hats in the June magazines so I might make these in June:

​And here's the bucket hat that I made for this week's hat pattern:

This hat uses worsted weight yarn in two colors and an H hook for the hat.  It does give a gauge for a G hook that you use for the mittens but not the H hook. I had yellow and orange yarn that matches this photo pretty closely. The yellow is Impeccable and the orange is Lion Brand Basic Stitch.

​The hat is worked from the bottom to the top. Then the brim is crocheted on using the other side of the starting chain at the bottom of the hat.

​This was pretty easy to follow and the only quibble I have with the pattern is that it tells you, "work in pat, dec'ing 4 hdc groups evenly spaced around" which means the crocheter has to do that math for that. Since this is a beginner book I was a little surprised by those instructions. 

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This turned out to be almost exactly like the photo and is a super cute hat.  I'm giving this hat 5 stars. It was easy to follow the pattern. It's cute and functional. Above all, it fits!