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How to crochet a beanie with mittens attached?

I want to crochet a beanie with mittens attached to it. It's kind of like the mittens are extended from ear flaps. Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial or a video of how to make this?

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1. I don't have a video or tutorial, but I can tell you that this kind of hat is not complicated to put together. I made a hat with long rabbit ears that formed hand warming pockets at the bottoms and another that had earflaps that formed a scarf, both without a pattern and without years of practice. Basically you decide what shape you want your flaps/mitten straps to be, and then choose the best way to crochet them. This can be as simple as drawing the shape out on a big piece of paper and then working crochet to fit inside the shape correctly. Copy down what you've done on each row as you go so you can reproduce an identical piece for the other side. Making earflaps for a simple beanie is very easy. Make your beanie. Park it on your head. Observe where your ears are and estimate how large you want your earflaps to be. Cut two or four pieces of yarn about 3 inches long, preferably in a color that stands out against your hat. Loop one piece of yarn through your beanie at the front of where each ear flap should start. Loop the other two pieces through the back of where the earflap should go. Remove your hat from your head. Now you can see how wide your flaps should be and where they should be on the hat. You may want to check to see that they are really the same size and in reasonably the same place. Keep in mind that they will be a little farther toward the back of the hat, not exactly in the middle of the sides in most cases. You can work the flaps as seperate pieces and sew them on when you're done or tie your working yarn onto the hat and crochet the flaps directly onto it. Work the flaps until they're as long as you want. If you want them to come to a point, simply decrease your rows toward the end. I find that dropping turning chains and skipping the first stitch in a row will make a nice reduction in a reasonable distance for earflaps. If you want big looooong flaps, just keep cranking on the length. After all it's your hat, flap all you want. Attatching mittens is as simple as making mittens and sewing them onto the attatchment of your choice. A thin section of a few stitches wide would make a fine mitten leash. At the worst, you'll end up with a flap that doesn't look quite right, frog out a few rows, and try again. Just remember if you want two pieces to be EXACTLY the same, you need to write a careful pattern of what you did to make the first one as you went. You will forget the details as you go and when you try to make the second one, you'll just be estimating without a pattern.