Love this pattern. It just gives such a wonderful texture to hats. I have made several according to the pattern and really like the vintage look but then thought it would be great as a “baby bird hat” for my baby niece. I added earflaps and curly/springy“ side strings then chose simple buttons for eyes and crocheted a “beak” then sewed them on.

“curly/springy” side strings by crocheting a (number) of chains (I think i crocheted 40) turn 3sc blo in 2nd ch from hook and in each stitch until desired length of the “curly/springy” portion is reached then slst the remaining chs to the end. Join to side earflap. You can also join yarn to earflap first and follow pattern your preference.

Hi

Thanks for looking at the Baby Bird Hat, Alli from Allicrafts
did a great job of working up this very texture-y, vintage-y looking hat pattern and I had fun turning it into a baby bird, a snowman, a fox and a couple more animals. For the earflaps, I just kind of winged it, just using the same kind of feel as the hat pattern and went with it. I actually ask for advise from ravelry user’s at first but in the end just played around with it until I thought it looked good. I have two versions I use I will post on the pattern page. I’m sorry in advance if it isn’t to the letter, I have a bad habit of just doing it and not writing it down thinking “yeah no problem, I’ll remember what I did”…. not so much, so I ended up reverse engineering what I did and writing it up that way. I have gained sooo much respect for pattern writers! If you do have any questions
Please Feel Free To Message Me I will try my best to help!
Jenn
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Shell Earflaps original hat pattern by Allicrafts http://allicrafts.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-pattern-lacy-...

Pattern terms follow Allicrafts original pattern:

What I did~

--Slst to end last rnd of hat.-- ch 1 turn (you should be going left on the outside of hat) if not turn

Shorter Earflap version:
For Newborn Size Hat
R1-ch 2, 2 dc in 1st sc
1sc in sp
4dcin sc
1sc in sp
3dc in sc
1sc in sp

R2-ch1 turn
1sc in sp (between 2nd and 3rd dc)
4dc in sc
1sc in sp
4dc in sc
1 slst between 2nd and 3rd dc of previous row (trn-ch and 1st dc that started the earflap portion ) you can …cut/tie/hide… here or I like to blend mine a little more by slsting to the last row of the hat.
FO repeat for opposite side

Alt Pattern This is a more blunt strait down look-
R1:ch 2, 2 dc in 1st sc
1sc in sp
4dcin sc
1sc in sp
3dc in sc
1sc in sp

R2:ch1 turn
1sc in sp (between 2nd and 3rd dc)
4dc in sc
1sc in sp
4dc in sc
1 sc in sp

R3:ch 2 turn 2 dc in same sp
1 sc in sp
4 dc in sc
1 sc in sp
3 dc in sc

R4 ch 1 turn then insert hook in top of 1st dc (just below hook) yo, pull up a loop yo, now insert hook in sp ( between 2nd and 3rd dc) yo, pull thru sp yo, now pull through all loops on hook (4)
4 dc in sc
1 sc in sp
4 dc in sc
1 sc between 2nd and 3rd dc
slst to st right under hook an again to the one under that to end..

Done!