Quick Donation Hat Crochet Pattern

Looking for the perfect crochet pattern for beanies that you can knock out in no time? This is it! This super quick free beanie crochet pattern is meant for cranking out hats for those in need in your area. Grab your hook and let’s crochet some donation hats!

Donation Hat Pattern

Whether you’re making a bunch of these hats to donate in batches to your local homeless shelter or a whole bunch for party favors, this fast and easy crochet beanie is sure to be your go-to for QUICK and EASY hats to crochet for donation.

This QUICK crochet beanie is the fourth installment in the 2025 Donation Crochet Series. Since we’re only using about 170 yards of yarn, and we’re using two strands, this makes a perfect pattern for a stash buster as well. Grab two balls of yarn that are each roughly 85 yards and go to town! Use two similar colors for a peek-a-boo effect or use the same color yarn. You can even pull from both ends of the same skein of yarn if you’re careful!

Perfect for crocheting quick hats to donate, this easy and fast crochet beanie is super straight forward. And because we are using double stranded, worsted weight yarn it works up super fast!

When thinking of hats to crochet for donation, we’re looking for hats that work up quickly, are easy to memorize, use simple stitches, and are nice and warm for the recipient. This hat pattern crosses off all those boxes! Let’s make one – or twenty!

Materials:

Worsted Weight yarn (Brava Worsted used)
-approx. (170) yards total

Crochet hook in size K/6.5mm

Gauge: not super important, but 11 sts in 4″ width

Sizes: (adult small, adult large) = fits head up to (20″, 22″)

Pattern Notes:

Pattern written using US terms.

There are two sizes, adult small and adult large.

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Pattern:

Round 1: Fdc-(50, 55) (or ch-(50, 55), join to first chain made without twisting, Ch-2, dc in each st around). Join to top of first st. (50, 55)

Round 2: Ch-1, turn, sc in each st around. Join to top of first sc. (50, 55)

Round 3: Ch-2, turn, dc in each st around. Join to top of first dc. (50, 55)

Rounds 4 through 10: alternate rounds 2 & 3, ending with a round 2

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Round 11: Ch-2, turn, * dc in next 3 sts, dc2tog * repeat between * * around. Join to top of first st. (40. 44)

Round 12: repeat round 2 (40, 44)

Round 13: Ch-2, turn, * dc in next 2 sts, dc2tog * repeat between * * around. Join to top of first st. (30, 33)

Round 14: repeat round 2 (30, 33)

Round 15: Ch-2, turn, * dc in next st, dc2tog * repeat between * * around. Join to top of first st. (20, 22)

Round 16: repeat round 2 (20, 22)

Round 17: Ch-2, turn, dc2tog around. Join to top of first st. (10, 11)

Fasten off leaving a long enough tail for closing the top of the hat (~10″). With yarn needle and yarn tail, weave yarn in and out of stitches around the top of beanie, pull tight to cinch closed. Weave in all ends and you’re finished!

I hope you enjoy whipping up these quick beanies and donating them. Look for more free patterns in the 2025 Donation Crochet Series on this page, and new patterns in the series are released on the second Friday of each month.