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Double Loop Crochet Santa Beard Pattern – multiple sizes

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How adorable is this crochet Santa beard and beanie? I mean seriously one of the most fun patterns – perfect for the Holidays AND keeping warm!

free pattern for this crochet double loop bearded santa beanie

When I wrote this patterm two years ago I only wrote two child sizes – and since then I’ve gotten a ton of requests for larger patterns. SO I made some…

All the Beanie patterns AND Beard patterns made this post too long, so I separated it – the FIVE sizes of Santa Hats are moved to a new post.

So last year I did the reindeer beanie for Baby Boy, THIS year I was having so much fun with my bearded beanies that I decided he needed a bearded Santa’s hat!

My sweet niece is rocking the reindeer, making them the perfect pair this holiday season!

I don't think it gets much more adorable than beards on kids, come get this free crochet pattern

I went through a few designs when I was first starting this bearded hat. I tried using Fun Fur with my basic beard pattern thinking it would make a fun beard.  I think think looks great, BUT annoyed Baby Boy to no end, all that fur in his mouth and tickling his nose, I hadn’t even though of that!

I still wanted that furry look than my bobble beards so I decided to try a different stitch – the double loop. It’s perfect, I switched the beanie over to a double loop as well and voila – perfection!

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I originally tried fuzzy yarn, then the bobble, but the double loop just works best for these bearded santa hats

How to get Double Loops every row

Working in a round it’s easy to get the loops on the front of your piece – by working from the back. But when working in rows it’s harder.

You could simply do a sc row between every loop row, but with this thick yarn there are only a few rows, if every other one was an SC there would be WAY less loops.

SO I decided to create a loop row every row, meaning I did a right handed loop row, then a left handed loop row. Just go slow and you’ll get it.

IF you have a hard time with the left handed loop rows you can stick with an SC row between OR you cut the yarn and restart it and go in the same direction every row.

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Double Loop Crochet Santa Bearded hat pattern
Materials:
White bulky yarn (I used Baby’s first in “cotton ball”)
Hook N- 9.00mm
SANTA HAT

Stitch abbreviation:
slip stitch (sl st)
single crochet (sc)
half double crochet (hdc)
double loop stitch  (insert your hook into the stitch. take yarn and wrap it clockwise around your left index finger twice (opposite of the way you’d normally hold it over your finger.). stick the hook under the loops on your finger catching all three strands with the hook.  pull all three strands through the stitch, YO and pull through all 4 loops on hook.)
left handed double loop stitch (if you have a hard time with a left handed double loop substitute with a sc row instead)

5 sizes of santa beanies, and 4 sizes of beards, use these free crochet patterns to mix and match to make the perfect fit

extra small loop beard
hook N
ch 22
row 1- sc in second ch from hook, sc 6 times hdc 7 times sc 7 times (21)
row 2- ch 1 sc double loop 19 times sc (21)
row 3- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 19 times sc (21)

row 4- (back to right hand) repeat row 2 (21)
row 5- repeat row 3 (21)
row 6- (back to right hand) ch 1 sc double loop 4 times, skip a stitch, double loop twice, skip a stitch, double loop 3 times, skip a stitch, double loop twice, skip a stitch, double loop 4 times sc (17)

row 7- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 4 times, ch 6, skip 7 stitches, double loop 4 times sc
row 8- back to right hand, sl st 4 times, short double loop, short double loop in each ch, short double loop in stitch, sl st 4 times
finish off
use a needle and white yarn and attach the beard into a SANTA HAT

from baby to adult get any size you want for these adorable bearded santa crochet pattern

small loop beard
hook N
ch 24
row 1- sc in second ch from hook, sc 7 times hdc 7 times sc 8 times (23)
row 2- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 21 times sc (23)
row 3- ch 1 sc double loop 21 times sc (23)

row 4- repeat row 2 (23)
row 5- (back to right hand) repeat row 3 (23)
row 6- repeat row 2 (23)
row 7- (back to right hand) ch 1 sc double loop 5 times, skip a stitch, double loop twice, skip a stitch, double loop 3 times, skip a stitch, double loop twice, skip a stitch, double loop 5 times sc (19)

row 8- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 5 times, ch 6, skip 7 stitches, double loop 5 times sc
row 9- back to right hand, sl st 5 times, short double loop, short double loop in each ch, short double loop in stitch, sl st 5 times
finish off
use a needle and white yarn and attach the beard into a SANTA HAT

Even little girls look adorable as bearded santa's

medium loop beard
hook N
ch 26
row 1- sc in second ch from hook, sc 7 times hdc 9 times sc 8 times (25)
row 2- ch 1 sc double loop 23 times sc (25)
row 3- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 23 times sc (25)
row 4- (back to right hand) repeat row 2 (25)

row 5- repeat row 3 (25)
row 6- (back to right hand) repeat row 2 (25)
row 7- repeat row 3 (25)
row 8- (back to right hand) ch 1 sc double loop 5 times, skip a stitch, double loop 3 times, skip a stitch, double loop 3 times, skip a stitch, double loop three times, skip a stitch, double loop 5 times sc (21)

row 9- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 5 times, ch 8, skip 9 stitches, double loop 5 times sc
row 10- back to right hand, sl st 5 times, short double loop, short double loop in each ch, short double loop in stitch, sl st 5 times
finish off
use a needle and white yarn and attach the beard into a SANTA HAT

Nothing get's my boys quite in the christmas spirit like wearing santa hats, they love this bearded version

large loop beard
hook N
ch 28
row 1- sc in second ch from hook, sc 8 times hdc 9 times sc 9 times (27)
row 2- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 25 times sc (27)
row 3- ch 1 sc, double loop 25 times, sc (27)
row 4- repeat row 2 (27)

row 5- (back to right hand) repeat row 3 (27)
row 6- repeat row 2 (27)
row 7- (back to right hand) repeat row 3 (27)
row 8- repeat row 2 (27)
row 9- (back to right hand) ch 1 sc double loop 6 times, skip a stitch, double loop 3 times, skip a stitch, double loop 3 times, skip a stitch, double loop three times, skip a stitch, double loop 6 times sc (21)

row 10- switch to left handed ch 1 sc double loop 6 times, ch 8, skip 9 stitches, double loop 6 times sc
row 11- back to right hand, sl st 6 times, short double loop, short double loop in each ch, short double loop in stitch, sl st 6 times
finish off
use a needle and white yarn and attach the beard into a SANTA HAT

you can make the double loops longer for a more mature looking beard, it does use a ton of yarn
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  1. N'awlins Darlin'

    So cuuuuuute! I wish I knew a baby to make that for. Maybe I’ll make a big one for my husband. ha.
    That last photo is AWESOME!

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  3. dianna

    your patterns are always so fun to make. the photos with this pattern are adorable. i needed a good giggle and the photos did that.
    thank you for all you share !
    Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year

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  5. Sara

    Are you really suppose to repeat row 10? Won’t the hat keep getting wider and wider. On the toddler hat, shouldn’t you repeat the last increase row? Thanks!

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  7. LeeAnn

    how many rows of the red would I need to do for an adult? I am a very visual learner and could never read a pattern. A friend asked me to make your bearded beanie and I decided to take on the challenge! I am proud to say that I was able to figure it out (slowly but surely) and it turned out adorable! Love your posts! Thanks!

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    • Ashlee

      for an adult I’d do one more row of increase at the crown before starting the sides. I usually get the length from trial and error, just keep trying it on while you make it until it’s the right length for you (remembering to leave about an 1 1/2 inches to switch back to the white yarn)

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    • Ashlee

      I didn’t use my puffball maker, instead I just looped it around my fingers a few times, tied it in the center tight and pulled my fingers out. I’ts not very full, or even, but I liked the way it looked keeping the loops!

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  9. Andrea

    Love this hat. So for the adults would i after row 17 do 6hdc then2 hdc row 18 would then be 14 hdc then 2hdc. :-/ confused :-). Thank you

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  11. Danyelle

    Hi, I love your hat but wanted to ask what size the beards are meant to fit. I am making for a 3 year old and don’t know if I need to make the extra small or the small. Please help 🙂

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    • Ashlee

      That’s such a hard question to answer since every child has such a different shaped face and head. it works best when you have a model that you can try it on while you work. But my guess would be
      baby – 0-1
      toddler 1-3
      child 3-10
      but again it can go either way, my 1 year old was totally too big for the baby, but my niece would probably fit the baby size until she was 2, I’m sorry I don’t have better guesses than that. That’s the worst part about designing for babies, they are so DIFFERENT in their sizes!

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    • Crystal

      I believe you do the SC coming from the back instead of going in the front. There should be 24 stitches instead of 48 after row 21 to accommodate for the larger yarn.

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      • Ashlee

        I’m not sure what you mean by back, you do the ch 2, skip 1 stitch and sl st all the way around so you end with just as many ch 2 spaces as you have sl st’s

  13. katie

    Hello, I have made quite a few of these hats in each size, so cute! The problem I am having is the hats being too small because of the slip stitch. Not sure what is going wrong. Made toddler size for my 2 year old and slip stitch made it so tight. Any suggestions?

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    • Ashlee

      I think you did that row wrong, its ch 2 skip one and sl st all the way around, so you’ll have just as many ch 2 spaces and sl st’s, so it shouldn’t be tight

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  14. Laura

    Hello!

    The santa hat and beard is awesome!! I am currently making one for my 3 year old and am using the child size pattern (he’s got a big head ;)) I have a quick question about row 27:ch2, skip1 slip stitch around. Do I just slip stitch around? The reason I ask is in row 28 you say to sc in each 2ch spaces around…soooo do you ch2, skip 1 and then slip stitch? Thanks for any help that you can provide!

    Happy Holidays!
    Laura

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      • Kristen

        Very excited to make this for my son, but I’m having trouble with the medium size beard. It says to do 21 double loop sc but it says you should have 25 loops made? And when I make 25 and get to the decrease rows, I have extra stitches… Very confused! Please help. Thanks!!

      • Ashlee

        sc, is one stitch, then 23 double loops across (it did say 21, but it was incorrect thanks for bring it to my attention), then a final sc, that add’s up to 25 stitches, only 23 of them are the double loops you want to start and end each row with a sc for strength.

  15. Jill

    I’ve started, torn out and restarted your pattern a few times now. You’ve got rows 2-4 sticking with 8 stitches though when I stitched it out, I ended up with a really awkward looking tube and the following rows with the increases just looked wrong. Is that an error in the pattern or am I reading that wrong?!

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    • Ashlee

      I was going for an elfish kind of shape to the santa hat. It’s a tight beanie (so it would stay on his head well) but I wanted it bit to stick out and fold over like a santa hat would, so yes, it’s a tube at the end.

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  16. Heidi

    This is amazing! Can anyone please share how I make the Santa hat for an adult? I don’t see the info for adult sized hats? Thank you so much!

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  17. Peter

    These are fantastic, can I buy them anywhere? I can barely tie my shoes let alone attemp something of this scale, lol, I really love the beard beanies as well, great work

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    • Ashlee

      Thank you so much! I do NOT sell them, just offer the pattern, but I have no problem with other people making and selling from my patterns so try ETSY. Or if you knows someone who crochets you can send them the URL and ask them to make one for you!

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    • Ashlee

      I don’t, but it’s on “the list” of things to do. Still working on getting the right lighting to make them right. Once the kids go back to school I should be able to start doing more videos!

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    • Ashlee

      Sorry, I simply don’t have the time to make and sell these, that’s why I offer the pattern for free and allow others to sell items made from my pattern. I’d suggest checking Etsy, it’s a great place to find handmade items like these!

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  20. Deedee

    Hi – I love the beard. I had never tried the double loop before, so thank you for introducing me to it. I’m having trouble doing it left handed. Are you able to do it both right and left handed? Is there another way I could do it?

    Oh, and I am making it for my adult son who wants a long beard. Would I just add a few extra rows?

    Thank you!

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    • Ashlee

      It just takes some practice, but yes, I do it with both hands, in both directions. For a longer beard you can pull the loops out more, adding extra rows won’t get longer, just wrap around the face more.

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  23. Darlene

    Is there an adult version. I am new to crocheting and I’m not sure how to increase the hat or beard for an adult male…..love this hat. Please help 🙂

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  24. amber

    Is there adult version of this hat. I would.love to be able to make this for a friend of mine and for her husband. So just really wanting an adult version thank you.

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  25. Vicki

    I’m trying to make the beard for my 16 year old son and I can’t wrap my mind around the loops. I’ve you tubed how to do them, but I don’t see where there is a mouth spot and don’t I need to do some kind of a row first to attach the loops? I’ve been struggling and don’t normally reply, but he really would like a beard and I’d love to be able to make him one. You do awesome things!!!

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    • Ashlee

      there is a first row, in fact there are 2 rows of regular stitches before you start the double loops. as for the mouth hole in row 9 of the medium beard it says “ch 8, skip 9 stitches” this is where the hole comes in, in the next row you create the mustache working in that chain.

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  26. Lauren

    Is there an adult version of this hat? My better half is a police officer and he loves fun hats to wear on holidays! Would LOVE to surprise him! 🙂

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    • Ashlee

      the white yarn is so much thicker than the read that you can’t just switch from one to the other. So in row 23 your creating larger spaces so that in row 24 you can attach the larger yarn using the larger hook.

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  28. Pamla Sterner

    I love this pattern and this stitch, my problem/question is: I used the extra small loop beard figuring that must be the one to use for a baby of 6 months, but now thinking i might should have used the other one. When I tried it on my granddaughter to model it, I noticed she did not like the beard. SO I am not one that usually makes up patterns but was thinking about putting to 1 inch white buttons in the white furry part of the hat and then chaining a couple of loops on each side of the beard so the beard could be attached for photos but then unattached and worn as a hat. Any suggestions? What do you think?
    BTW, based on letting the beard hang a little further down by attaching it by a chain and by buttons, I sewed up the mouth hole to let this come to the baby’s chin instead. Again, any comments, ideas you have would be appreciated.

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  30. Rissa

    I’m absolutely in love with this pattern! Thanks for sharing! I plan to make a couple for my little siblings for next year. 🙂

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    • Alice

      I couldn’t do it either, so I just done that row with sc’s…and then on the next row, just made the loops a little longer…worked for me.

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      • Ashlee

        I’m glad it worked for you. I will say the left handed does take me about twice as long as the righthanded, but I LOVE the end result!

    • Ashlee

      like I say in the pattern “IF you have a hard time with the left handed loop rows simply do an SC row instead”. Personally I like doing every row of loops so that the beard is nice and full. I am working on a video to help.

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  32. ChristinaD

    Thanks for the pattern! Just finished up the hat for my son. I love the way it looks, the only thing I need help with is the “poof ball” Not really sure were to start.

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  34. pat

    I think there is a mistake on medium size beard on the row where you chain. I did loop stitch 8 times chained 8 skipped 9 and loop stitch 8 times. Maybe I read it wrong.

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    • Ashlee

      why do you think it’s wrong? didn’t it end up correctly? You want to skip more than your creating because that is what creates the mouth shape, larger, rounded bottom, tighter straight across the lip.

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  35. Wanda D

    LOVE LOVE THIS HAT… I can’t wait for my kiddo to wear it! Thank you for the pattern … But I’m confused about the beard part …. What do you mean by left and right hand? Does it just mean to turn your work at the end of each row?

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    • Ashlee

      No – ideally you change hands every row to keep the loops all on one side. If you can’t do the left handed version then you can turn your work, but don’t do a loop just do a row of sc. I explain in the “stitch abbreviation section” before the patterns each start

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  36. Anna

    Oh my goodness! Made the toddler size for my 15 month old son. The absolute cutest! I opted to use the regular bobble beard instead of the loop, and crocheted a white bobble-ball for the top of the hat.

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  37. Palette cove

    Hi I do a lot of crochet hats and was wondering if there is a video available for this loop stich on the Santa hat beard can u email me when one is available. Many thanks. Great hats

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  39. Lorene

    please note I tryied to subscribe to you newletter or whatever it was and the email address I gave you was wrong. The correct one is able and incorrect one is [email protected] That was done by error
    sorry Lorene

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    • Ashlee

      I can’t change it because you never confirmed it (obviously because you can’t with it being sent to the wrong email) it’s not a problem, just sign up again with the right email and you’ll be good to go!

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  40. Rachelle

    I can’t do the left handed for anything but doing a sc row looked funny so I finally decided to just finish off at the end of every row and start over. There’s more loose ends to hide but it was the best compromise I could find for my lack of left handed skills.

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    • Ashlee

      as long as they link to my post and take their own pictures, I allow people to sell products based on my patterns but thank you for looking out for me, if they ever use pictures of my kids or sell my patterns I def want to know about it so I can go after them.

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  43. Zoe

    Thanks so much for the adorable patterns! I made one for each of my grandsons (3 and 6) – I ended up putting velcro on the beards so that they can wear the hats with or without the beards!

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  44. Julia farris

    have been unable to find and purchase the baby soft in cotton ball. Can you recommend another yarn? Thank you!

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  45. Jessica

    Hi Ashlee,
    I love the Santa beard and hat for toddlers. I’m wondering do you also make and sell them? I’m looking for something fun like this for my son Christmas Photos this year.

    Reply

  46. JoAnn

    I as well had issues doing left-handed stitch on beard but instead of single crochet row I just slip-stitched back. Worked great!

    Reply

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