Beautiful Panama hats for girls, crochet patterns and descriptions

In hot weather, it is especially important to protect the child's head from the scorching sun. Of course, you can buy a factory-made hat - children's products are offered in a wide variety, but hand-made ones look much more interesting and attractive. The best thing is that you can make a summer hat of any model yourself, choosing the right yarn and tool. The easiest way to crochet a panama hat for a girl is - a diagram and description, explaining in detail the algorithm of actions, will help even novice craftswomen cope with the process. The openwork model will be light and multifunctional: it will perfectly protect from the sun and beautifully complement the outfit of a little fashionista.

How to take measurements and determine the size of the product

Headwear for children in the summer is selected based on age and height. You can determine the approximate sizes of children's panama hats using the table of correspondences.

Age	Product height, cm	Bottom diameter, cm
0–3 months	13	9
0–6 months	14	10
6–18 months	15.5	12
18 months - 3 years	18	13.5
2-6 years	19	14.5
3-8 years	19.5	15.5
8-16 years old	21.5	16.5
16 years old - small adult	22	17
Average adult	23	18

The table data is approximate; it is better to take preliminary individual measurements of the child’s head.

The main parameter for determining the size of a hat is the head circumference. The value varies from 36 to 58 cm. The measurement must be taken using a centimeter tape. The measuring instrument is placed 2–3 cm above the eyebrow level, after which it is pulled along the back of the head, along the most convex part of the head. To determine the depth of a Panama hat, you need to make a simple calculation: OG/3 + 1.5 cm.

To allow free passage of air between the child’s head and the summer knitted Panama hat, there should be space for 2–3 fingers – this will prevent overheating and excessive compression of the skin surface.

Materials and tools

To make a crocheted baby hat, it is best to prepare natural yarn that will allow air to pass through well. For example, cotton, linen threads. The raw materials for making a hat must meet the basic requirements:

1. Hypoallergenic. It is best to choose special threads that are designed for knitting children's things.
2. Good air permeability. In summer, this is a very important factor, as sufficient air circulation will prevent the child from overheating.
3. Ability to absorb moisture. This characteristic is also important. In summer, the child sweats a lot, so it is necessary for the material to remove liquid.

It is better to give preference to light colors, since dark shades attract ultraviolet rays. For a girl, a crochet panama hat can be made with white, cream, light pink threads or pastel-colored yarn.

You can choose any knitting tool, it is only important that it is the right size for the thickness of the thread. This can be a plastic or metal hook. If you choose the second option, it is important to ensure that the tool does not bend, otherwise it will be difficult to work with it. Additionally, you may need scissors, threads with a needle, and a measuring tape.

Knitting instructions depending on the model

Children's hats are presented in a wide variety, so the first thing you need to do is decide on the type of product. Schemes and descriptions will help you understand the process of crocheting a panama hat for a girl; you can find them in finished form on any thematic resource.

Multicolored

This unusual hat amazes with its abundance of shades. Bright, colorful and at the same time lightweight model will appeal to any girl. To make it, you will need yarn of different shades. The pattern below will help you crochet such a panama. The model is easy to make, suitable even for beginner craftswomen.

Execution algorithm:

1. First, you need to dial a chain of 6 air loops (hereinafter VP), close it into a circle. To knit VP, you need to fold the thread into a loop, insert the hook from below. The place where the yarn crosses should be held with your fingers and pull the long part of the thread inside the loop with the hook. The resulting knot should be slightly tightened. Subsequent loops are easier to knit. The hook is inside, it is enough to pull the thread inside, slightly tightening the loops.
2. Next, 7 VP should be knitted to lift to the center of the circle. After that, 19 columns with 4 yarns (hereinafter DC). A column with 4 DC is knitted simply: you need to make 4 yarns of thread on the hook, then the tool should be inserted into the loop of the main fabric and pull out the working thread.
3. After this, there are 4 VP. Next, you need to knit a column with 2 yarns in the previous row (the knitting pattern is similar to the column with 4, only you need to make 2 turns of the thread).
4. In the 3rd row, single crochets (SC) through 1 column from the previous circle. SC are knitted into the second from the VP tool. The hook should be inserted under two walls of the loop and the thread should be caught. After that, the thread is pulled through, and two loops remain on the hook. Then you should again grab the thread and pull it through 2 loops.
5. The resulting multi-colored flowers can be crocheted together.
6. Now the fields are made. To do this, 7 sc are knitted along the central parts of the flowers, and 6 VP between them. The fields are knitted with a mesh according to the pattern: column, 1 dc, 1 VP, then skip the loop and repeat again.
7. Then crochet 5 sc, doubling every 7th loop, in the next row you should double every 10th loop, then 15, and so on.

You should crochet a summer panama hat to the desired brim width. Along the edges, it is necessary to tie with a contrasting thread, a single crochet. After that, knit a chain of air loops and pull it through the holes on the product to adjust the width. The colored panama hat for a girl is ready.

Panama hat

The elegant, openwork panama hat looks very cute and reliably protects your head from the sun. To make it, you will need a crochet hook and linen threads of the desired color. Instructions with a detailed description of the process:

1. First, you need to close 5 VP with a ring. After that, there is 1 row of 3 VP for lifting and then 15 CCH.
2. From each column of the first row, it is necessary to knit a relief column and divide it with VP. To knit, insert the hook from right to left under the column with a yarn over from the previous circle, grab the thread and pull out the loop. There should be three loops on the tool. After that, a regular CCH is performed, the loops should be knitted in pairs: grab the thread, knit two loops, grab again and knit the remaining loops.
3. Next, knit a CCH and a relief column into the top of each column from the previous row. Separation 1 VP.
4. In this row: CCH, VP, relief column, VP.
5. After this comes a circle, knitted as follows: from 1 CCH from the previous row, you need to knit 2 CCH, 1 VP, from the relief - relief, then 1 VP.
6. In the 6th row, from 1 DC you should knit 2 DC. Then in each top DC, 1 VP, relief column and again 1 VP.
7. In the 7th row, from 1 DC, knit 2 DC, then in each top 2 DC, 1 VP, relief column, 1 VP.
8. Next, from 1 DC, knit 2 DCs, then in the two upper parts of the DC from the 7th row, 2 DCs (while skipping the 4th vertex), 1 VP, relief column, 2 VP. After this, the pattern begins to shift, since 2 DCs will be knitted into the first vertex and not knitted into the 4th.
9. After this, you need to knit all the rows in the same way as the 8th until you reach the required depth.
10. Next, knit 2-3 rows of sc. In the last row, make an increase in every third column.
11. From each column of the previous row, knit 1 CCH, 1 relief and alternate.
12. Knit 6 rows of the panama hat brim in the same way.

The finished hat should be steamed and can be lightly starched. In this way, you can knit both a sea hat and a headdress for walks around the city. In any of these items, the child will look charming.

Openwork kerchief

An openwork children's scarf is a great alternative to hats, panamas and summer caps. The bright accessory looks original and is quite easy to knit. At the same time, it can be decorated in an unusual way, which will make it look very elegant.

Instructions and diagrams:

1. Cast on 5 VP and join them into a ring. Then cast on another 6 VP.
2. The pattern begins: 6 VP, 3 dc, 3 VP, 3 dc, 3 VP, 1 dc. Close everything into a ring.
3. Turn the knitting over and cast on 6 VP again.
4. Knit 3 DC, 3 VP, in the center of the composition 3 DC, 3 VP, 3 DC. Then continue: 3 VP, 3 DC, 3 VP, 1 DC.
5. The next and all remaining rows are knitted similarly to the previous one. It is only necessary to widen the corner of the kerchief from the composition 3 CCH, 3 VP, 3 CCH in the central part.
6. The product should be knitted until it fits the head size.
7. The last step is to tie the fabric along the edge with a border of 5 DC from one loop into the second DC from three SC.

At the end, you should knit the strings, for them, make chains of air loops, in each knit single crochets.

You can knit children's berets using the described pattern.

Headdress with a hole for a ponytail

A Panama hat with a hole for a tail is easy to knit and looks very unusual. The fabric itself should be dense, and for the brim you will need to prepare a stiff fishing line, with its help the shape will be fixed.

A panama hat for a girl is made using a crochet hook as follows:

1. First, you need to make a chain of 60 air loops and close it into a ring.
2. Knit the first row completely with VP.
3. Next, knit according to the pattern, increasing from rows 1 to 9. Bottom diameter: 13.5–14 cm. Knit 2 DC in each loop, then 2 DC in one loop.
4. Second row according to the pattern: 5 VP and 2 CCH in one loop.
5. The third row is completely VP, only where there were 2 CCH in the previous row, you need to add 3 VP in one loop.
6. Next round knit 5 VP and 5 CCH in one loop. After the row VP.
7. Next, a row according to the pattern 4 VP after 9 CCH.
8. After row 7, 3 VP, 12 CCH. The next round is the same pattern.
9. Row 9 is knitted with 3 VP, 7 CCH.
10. Rows 10 through 23 are knitted without increases according to the pattern: VP, 7 dc, 3 VP, 2 dc in one loop, 2 VP. Repeat this three times, after 3 VP.
11. Row 11 is similar, only repeat 2 CCH in one loop 5 times.
12. Rows 12 and 13 only continue the pattern. Knit 2 CCH in one loop from the previous rows.
13. After row 23, you can try the product on your child. If the depth is insufficient, you need to add the number of rows.
14. Rows 24 and 25 are knitted with single crochet stitches, which are made into each loop of the previous round.
15. In row 25, you need to knit a fishing line: you need to place it on the previous row and knit single crochet stitches so that it remains inside.
16. From rows 26 to 35, knit the edges according to the pattern: 2 CCH in one loop, CCH, 2 CCH in one loop.
17. Row 36 - single crochet with a fishing line, similar to the 25th row.
18. The final step is to cut the line and bend it on both sides.

After this, the product can be lightly starched - the Panama hat with holes for the tails is ready.

Decor options

Finished products can be decorated in different ways. Children's panama hats are decorated with bows, beads, and embroidery. Summer models of headwear can be appropriately complemented with bright, colorful details. Summer panama hats are often made of colored threads, which in themselves make the product bright.

Craftswomen decorate headwear with knitted elements, these can be flowers, butterflies, various animals. They are crocheted from colored threads and attached to a panama hat. Such decorations look very original and unusual.

Often, children's hats are decorated with appliques. These can be summer fruits, plants, animals, etc. Girls in such headdresses look very unusual. Ribbons and beads on panamas are a classic decor option that always looks appropriate and beautifies the child.

Excessive decoration will prevent normal air circulation and increase the risk of overheating. In addition, a pile of decorations even on a child's product looks out of place.

Crocheting panama hats is not difficult; even a novice craftswoman can handle the task. The finished result will please any mother: the knitted model looks incredibly cute and original, and most importantly, the child himself likes it.

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