How to Make a Crochet Bucket Hat – Free Crochet Pattern

The decision to make a love heart crochet bucket hat pattern came from a desire to spread joy and warmth through crochet. I have always found comfort and satisfaction in turning yarn into a tangible creative expression, adding love to every stitch in the process. With the Bucket of Love Hat, I wanted to incorporate the essence of love into a simple design and share it with fellow creatives around the world. In designing this pattern, I aimed to give crocheters the opportunity to not only create beautiful pieces but infuse them with their own feelings and emotions, making each hat uniquely romantic.

Making this bucket hat is a labor of love, allowing you to pour your emotions into the design. Featuring the adorable heart motifs, this hat acts as a canvas for your creativity. Infuse it with your unique touch, play around with colours and textures, and create a piece that represents your unique way of showing love.

Crocheting the Bucket of Love Hat isn’t just a skill; It’s about making an emotional connection with every loop and knot. Each piece symbolises your love and devotion, and carries your warmth and care inside your craft. In the end, this crochet hat is more than just good-looking—it’s a way to connect creativity with feeling, making a fashion piece that also sends a message from the heart.

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You can sell finished products created using this pattern. You may not use my photos of the finished product to advertise your listing, this is to avoid confusion as our work might differ slightly. When selling online, please link back to my original pattern listing or tag me where possible.

Notes

The hat is created by crocheting five separate granny squares and a granny pentagon, which are than joined to create the base hat shape. A brim is then crocheted onto the base to create the signature bucket hat look.

This pattern uses US terminology.

This pattern is written in made to measure style, meaning there aren’t exact sizes or stitch numbers to follow. While stitches used to create the sample size are included, you should follow the measure-yourself style instructions and check the fit as you’re working on the piece. This allows you to create the hat in literally any size and achieve the perfect fit every time!

This pattern is for adventurous beginners or advanced beginner level crocheters. While the shaping and constructions of the hat are fairly simple for beginners to follow, it does include some colour changes and a joining method that might be hard for complete beginners.

You can use any yarn and a matching hook of your choice to create this hat. When choosing the yarn, remember that using thinner yarns means the heart motif will also look smaller and you might have to add more rows to reach the desired size of hat. The reverse applies to thicker yarn as well, the heart motif will end up bigger and the hat might end up being too big.

Materials

• Crochet hook that matches your yarn.
• Scissors
• Tapestry needle
• Yarn A – Your choice of red yarn for the heart pattern | My choice: Woolcraft New Fashion DK in Signal Red
• Yarn B – Your choice of white yarn | My choice: Cygnet Pato DK in White

Make sure both yarns are the same weight.

For reference, I used about 30g of Yarn B and 20g of Yarn A in Signal Red with a 4mm crochet hook.

Gauge

As this is a made to measure style pattern, matching gauge is not necessary.

Good to Know

• This is an advanced beginner level crochet pattern.
• This pattern is written using US crochet terminology.
• Instructions are given as measurements compared to your body (ex. work until the hat fits around your head) to ensure perfect fit. If working the pattern for someone else, I recommend following average hat sizes.
• To avoid doing the magic ring, you can CH2 and SL ST back into the first CH. You’ll then work into the circle you just created instead of a magic ring.
• CH2 at the start of the round counts as DC.

Stitches & Abbreviations

• CH – chain
• ST – stitch
• SL ST – slip stitch
• SC – single crochet
• DC – double crochet
• MR – magic ring
• *…* x times – repeat instructions written in between asterisks specified number of times.
• (…) – instructions written between brackets are to be worked into the same stitch.
• {…} – states which colour is to be used for the next stitches.

Bucket of Love Crochet Bucket Hat Pattern

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Heart Granny Square

Using Yarn A and a matching hook, MR and CH2 to start.

Row 1. {A} (2DC, CH2, *3DC, CH2* repeat between * 3 times), SL ST into top of CH2, turn.
Row 2. {A} SL ST into CH2 space. Into the same CH2 space (CH2, 2DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), into next CH2 space (3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), {B} *into next CH2 space (3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1)* repeat between * 2 times, SL ST into top of CH2, turn.
Row 3. {B}SL ST into CH1 space, into the same CH1 space(CH2,2DC,CH1), *into next CH2 space(3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), into next CH1 space (3DC, CH1)* repeat between * 3 times, into next CH2 space (3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), SL ST into top of CH2, turn.

Continue repeating Row 3 and adding an extra DC cluster per row until the granny square’s width is about 1/5 of your head’s circumference. The sample has 4 rows total, making the square 11cm wide for a head circumference of 55 cm.

Fasten off and repeat from the start 4 more times to make 5 granny squares total.

Granny Pentagon

Using Yarn B and a matching hook, MR and CH2 to start.

Row 1. {B} (2DC, CH2, *3DC, CH2* repeat between * 4 times), SL ST into top of CH2, turn.
Row 2. {B} SL ST into CH2 space. Into the same CH2 space (CH2, 2DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), *into next CH2 space (3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1)* repeat between * 4 times, SL ST into top of CH2, turn.
Row 3. {B} SL ST into CH1 space, into the same CH1 space(CH2, 2DC, CH1), *into next CH2 space (3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), into next CH1 space (3DC, CH1)* repeat between * 4 times, into next CH2 space (3DC, CH2, 3DC, CH1), SL ST into top of CH2, turn.

Continue repeating Row 3 and adding an extra DC cluster per row until the pentagon has the same number of rows as the five granny squares. The sample has 4 rows total.

Fasten off.

Assembly

Place the granny pentagon in the middle and the granny squares so each of their top side is flat against one of the sides of the granny pentagon.

You’ll then want to attach Yarn A to the inside loop of any corner of the pentagon. This spot will now be the start of your join. To join the granny squares, you’ll be pushing your hook through the inside loop on the pentagon and the inside loop on granny square. You’ll then yarn over and pull through both loops on your hook. Continue working through the inside loops of the granny shapes until the gap is joined. You’ll then add another granny square and work around the pentagon until each side has a square attached to it.

Once all the granny squares are joined to a side of the pentagon, we’ll start seaming the granny squares to each other. Without fastening off, continue using the same technique of working through the inside loop on the first square and the inside loop on the second square to join the the two squares, working top down along the seam and fasten off. You’ll move on to the next gap, attach yarn to the inside loop of one of the granny squares and work top down along the seam. Continue all the way around until all granny squares are joined together.

Brim

Turn the hat so the right side (outside of the hat) is facing you and you’re working along the bottom of the hat. Attach Yarn A to any of the stitches along the bottom side.

Round 1. {A} SC into every CH space and into every DC around the bottom, SL ST to join to the first SC of the row, CH1 do NOT turn.
Round 2. {A} SC around, SL ST to join, do not turn, {B} CH2.
Round 3. {B} (2DC) into every stitch around, SL ST to join, do not turn, CH2.
Round 4. {B} DC around, SL ST to join, do not turn, {A} CH1. 
Round 5. {A} SC around, SL ST to join.

Fasten off, weave in the ends and….

Congrats! You’ve done it! ❤