Toque Pattern

MATERIAL-3 skeins white and 2 of color Woolco Germantown Zephyr. No. 4 Woolco hook.

With color, chain 24.

Insert hook, draw yarn through, wrap, take off 1 loop, wrap, take off 2 loops. Repeat for 22 stitches – in last stitch make 4. Work down the other side of chain, make 4 stitches in last stitch. Join with a slip stitch, chain 1, turn, at end of every row.

2D ROW-2 stitches in each of the 1st 3 stitches, 1 in each of the next 10 stitches, 2 in next stitch, 1 in each next 10 stitches, 2 in each of the next 3 stitches. Other side same.

3D ROW-Increase in the increasings of 2d row. 24 rows even. Fasten off.

BAND-Single crochet, taking both loops.

With white chain 27.

1ST ROW-1 single crochet in each chain, turn, chain 1 at end of every row. 2D ROW-*Decrease 1 at end of row. 3D ROW-Even.*

Repeat between stars until there are 14 stitches. Work even until there are 84 rows. Finish with a picot of *1 single crochet, 3 chain, 1 single crochet* in every other row on top and on the long side. Place this point a little to one side of center and sew to cap at lower edge.