This Womens Bucket Hat is decorated with a vintage-inspired rosebud band. It’s the perfect addition to your wardrobe and an equally wonderful gift for your stylish friends.

This week's free crochet pattern is the Rosebud Bucket Hat. I designed the band to look like a strip of those little silk ribbon roses you find so often in wedding sections and also baby clothes.

For this weekend only (including Monday just in case you take weekends away from the computer), you can get a free PDF download!

Head over to the website to pick up the download code.

I also have news. After a year of running Make It Crochet, I now have access to a video player on the website. This means that I'll finally have a way to include the promised videos. I thought I would have access by the end of the year and it looks like we're right on target.

It's going to take awhile, though, probably several weeks. I am no longer set up to create videos and I'll have to do some rearranging and planning in order to start making videos again. 

When I stopped designing and started helping my son with his 24Bite recipe site, it never occurred to me that I would be right back here, in the crochet game. I sold all my equipment and other things needed for videos. So, I'm starting from scratch again.

I don't regret a thing, though. I had been working on designing and writing crochet patterns since 1998. I think I really needed a break and, as you can see, in only a year of working on Make It Crochet, we've come so far together already.

The Dragon Scales Baby Blanket will be the first thing on the list for a video. Many of you have requested that one.

Until next time, Happy Crocheting!

Kim