Anyone have an easy winter hat pattern for crochet?

If you can find a set of cirle kniting looms you can make hats with very little thought at all. Depending on how much time you have you can easily complete a baby sized hat in a "casual" hour or two and an adult hat in a day...and by casual I mean just a slow relaxed pace with interruptions. I found my set at Wal-mart for $12 or $13 dollars. It's a set of 4 rings in blue, red, green and yellow. I don't remember now which color corresponded with which ring but the small one was for baby hats, the next size was for youth hats, the next was for adult hats and the largest could be used for tote bags and shawls. I could also "knit" scarves and blanket squares on any of them even though there is a different loom set specifically made for that.

try checking at www.about.com once there do a search for crochet.. there's a whole sectiion for it and lots of patterns, all free. I look there first when looking for something.