The Urban Broomstick Slouchy Hat is crocheted in the round working from crown to base. Crocheting the broomstick lace stitch in the round is slightly different from working a flat piece. This pattern will ask that you work your broomstick stitches off the knitting needle because of the shape. You will only be able to keep approximately 10-20 loops on the knitting needle at any given time depending on which round you are working on. Once you can no longer add stitches to your needle you must gently remove the loops and then place the last three loops created back on the needle to maintain your tension.

Typically, the broomstick lace stitch is worked using 5 loops per stitch. When working in the round, during the increasing process you must only use 3 loops. Please note that no matter what number of loops you are using to create your broomstick stitch, you will always finish the stitch with 5 sc for this pattern. On the very first broomstick stitch you make, you should always lock in your stitch and chaining 1 followed by a total of 5 sc.

This pattern utilizes the ‘magic ring’ to start working in the round.