Easy crochet witch hat is a fun and creative project that can be completed by beginners and experienced crocheters alike. Crocheting a witch hat is a great way to add a unique touch to your Halloween costume or to simply create a festive decoration for the spooky season. The main idea behind the easy crochet witch hat is to simplify the process of making a hat while still achieving a professional-looking result. To create an easy crochet witch hat, you will need basic crochet skills and a few supplies. First, you will need to choose the yarn and crochet hook size that you prefer. Thicker yarn and larger hooks will create a bigger hat, while thinner yarn and smaller hooks will result in a smaller hat.
Thicker yarn and larger hooks will create a bigger hat, while thinner yarn and smaller hooks will result in a smaller hat. Once you have gathered your supplies, you can begin crocheting the hat. The pattern typically begins with creating a magic circle and making a certain number of chain stitches.
10 TRAITS OF WITCHES
Many, many more people are witches than the ones who happen to already consciously, publicly, deliberately identify themselves as witches.
Let me make this super-clear: to be a witch – one doesn’t need to be a Wiccan, or even a Pagan. At all.
Myself, I’m some sort of strange hybrid Buddhist-Christian-Existentialist internet folk magic witch – so, go figure.
A witch is a person (of any gender or belief) who lives by her own internal validation and creative inspiration rather than seeking approval from the powers-that-be.
Queen Elizabeth I, Jesus of Nazareth, Cleopatra, Yeshe Tsogyel, Joan of Arc, and John Lennon were all great witches with giant powers of fascination, who wielded great influence through the use of symbol and pageantry. I could name a lot more, but maybe you’re starting to get the idea.
Being a witch is an inherent quality of one’s being, like being deeply compassionate or having a green thumb. Even though witchiness is in-born, it still calls for deliberate cultivation to reach its fullest potential. It’s a particular flavor of spiritual and emotional incarnation, it’s not necessarily a collection of conscious beliefs.
That being said – coming to awareness of one’s own witchiness is a wonderful thing.
Once you have accepted and know that you’re a witch, a vast field of play opens up.
When you’ve accepted that you’re a witch, you can start deliberately cultivating your power, you can make sense of the world and your life through a whole new lens, and you can begin seeking out connections with other witches.
So here are some common traits I notice in witches – see if you can recognize them in yourself – and if you do, you might want to begin calling yourself a witch.
Calling yourself a witch at this moment in history has giant, positive political and historical ramifications – because our way of being has been persecuted for millenia. I could say a lot more about this, but I think you’ll get it if you ponder it for just a moment.
So, onto the Traits of a Witch.
1. You don’t give a fuck.
The most amazing and notable quality of witches is that they’re in touch with a level of intuitive and imaginative power which gives them an inner authority.
They’re being moved by their own genius and not by any external dogma or force. They may use a wide variety of traditional or institutional tools, but they’re not dependent on traditional or institutional authority for their power.
They’ve woken up the magic within their own hearts and it’s alive and throbbing.
Witches are often offensive to – well, just about every body. Witches tend to offend both the sensibilities of conventional, non-magically oriented types of people and also of people involved with magic who have rigid ideas about what magic should look like.
Just about everyone gets alarmed in the presence of an actual live-wire witch.
Among these we can count my controlling, holier-than-thou ceremonial magickian ex-boyfriends.
(Hi, gentlemen! Don’t you worry ’bout me, my magic is rolling along just great even though I don’t ever do the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram! Mwah! Hope you’re still enjoying living with your mom! Yes, Bali is great this time of year, and I don’t at all wish you were here! xoxoxoxo, Carolyn)
So if you find yourself still very committed to magical practice and to spiritual development and you have next-to-zero interest in fulfilling anyone else’s expectations of what your magic or spirituality should look like, then you may just be a witch.
2. Seriously, you do not give a fuck.
In your life you’ve probably had plenty of experiences of people freaking out at you about your signature strange way of being in the world, and while this is sometimes sad or challenging, ultimately you don’t care.
You’ve got work to accomplish – art to make, people to heal, houses to build, rituals to craft, stories to write – and you just don’t have time to be constantly soothing people who expect you to adhere to some standard other than your own genius and inner authority.
This may mean that eventually you go into stealth mode so as not to continually create alarm, but you don’t go stealth because you’re hiding or avoidant. You do it because you’ve got things to accomplish and only a limited amount of time here in the third dimension.
3. You make people nervous.
No matter how toned-down you allow you are in your dress or demeanor, you still make people nervous just by your very presence. There are things that can be done to mitigate this, but it’s probably unavoidable.
For folks who are looking to external authorities to tell them what’s good and beautiful and okay, the presence of you, an inherently wild someone who is wholly reliant on her inner authority, is disturbing.
Your presence is disturbing because others can sense there’s something about you that’s unpredictable and uncontrollable. You’re not being ruled by the conventional programs, so you’re not immediately legible to people who still allow themselves to be ruled.
4. Folks tell your eyes are “beautiful” – what they mean is that they’re penetrating.
Most people don’t have the words to describe your eyes. They just notice that there’s something compelling and different about them. That something is that your eyes see.
You can look at someone and see what programs they’re running, see where they’re blocking themselves, see what they’re attached too, see how they mishandle their own sexual energy and power, see their potential for liberation. It’s just evident to you when you look at someone because you’ve done that liberatory work on yourself already.
5. You can always tell when someone is full of it.
See the above. Your penetrating vision is a kind of psychic perception. You can see how people deceive themselves because you’ve unravelled many of your own self-deceptions.
You can hear when someone is bullshitting because you can perceive that the whole of their being is not in full resonance with their words.
6. You’ve been actually persecuted at least once in your life.
Because you make people nervous and you don’t give a fuck and you probably did not start out in stealth mode, it’s very likely that if you’re a witch you’ve attracted actual persecution at some point. This could be persecution in the form of cruel harassment and teasing in childhood, or persecution in the legal and professional realms as an adult.
Often it’s persecution in the form of malicious gossip from former friends who couldn’t keep up with your magical growth and then felt envious. Kindness and compassion in the form of brahmavihara cultivation are great antidotes to energetic persecution, and so are traditional protection spells and an ongoing practice of developing your communication and relating skills.
7. You encounter tons of synchronicity, and it doesn’t always lead to peachy places.
Witches are basically tantric bodhisattvas; they have a soul-commitment to liberate themselves and all beings as fast as possible, ideally in one lifetime, using alchemical transmutation.
This means that they’re on the karmic fast-track and life very often comes super-fast and hard to them. This means that following even gorgeous synchronicities can sometimes lead bad witches to apparently dark places – and that the visit to the dark and dirty places is totally part of the trip.
In other words, life is not a “love’n’light” New Age bowl of cherries for witches – it can, at times, be a tour of the hell realms.
8. Your disapproval visibly hexes people.
One reason that you make people nervous is that you have so much personal power that if you dislike, insult, or disapprove of them – they’ll feel it, hard. Their day will be ruined, and maybe their whole confidence.
When people get hexed by a cross word or look from you, they lose connection with their own best direction. They look dazed because they’re up in their heads, spinning scared thoughts around.
Folks are so affected by your disapproval for the very reason that they can sense your perception is penetrating. This is the “evil eye” that’s been so feared in so many cultures across history.
Of course you would resent and fear someone who had the power to crush your confidence with a glance because you know they see you clearly.
So as a witch, it’s a good idea to continually cultivate awareness of and to transmute your own resentments and fears so that you’re not walking around spattering everyone with mean ju-ju just because you don’t feel good that day.
9. You’ve experienced your raw magnetism in action.
You know you’re hot stuff. You’ve had abundant experiences of your own magical ability to magnetize amazing romantic partners and friends and other beautiful things.
There’s times when people just come up to you and tell you how fascinating you are or how deeply moved they felt by your work.
You’re magnetic and you’ve got reams of proof, so just accept it already.
10. Your experience of the fourth dimension is more vivid than most people’s experience of the third dimension.
“The fourth dimension” is a short-hand term for the world of spirit and emotion and desire and vibration and feeling and intuition and imagination. It’s all the unseen stuff that can have the power to dramatically affect the seen.
On the whole, witches have a much easier time navigating fourth dimensional realities than they do with third dimensional realities.
The third dimension is hard, literally. It includes matter: table legs that you can stub your toes on, cars that can crash if you steer them the wrong way, water that leaks through roofs, bills that have to be paid.
A major challenge for witches is integrating their fourth dimensional prowess with third dimensional day-to-day reality. The third dimension is more difficult for us than it is for others for the simple fact that large amounts of our minds and hearts are usually occupied by the fourth dimension.
We witches have less processing power to devote to third dimensional issues, and so we have to make it a deliberate part of our spiritual practice to deal with material reality – hence, practical magic.
IN CONCLUSION
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Across the world, witches have been regarded with loathing and horror, and associated with generally antisocial attitudes and with evil forces in the supernatural world. Such a trait rules out from the category of witchcraft the sanctioned or informally approved use of magic in neighbourhood feuds. That is sometimes found: for example in the Trobriand Islands public magicians would employ their skills to harm individuals who had incurred the jealousy of chiefs or neighbours by prospering above their station in life and disrupting the usual social order. Their activities were regarded as generally justifiable.99 Among most peoples, however, the use of magic was never regarded as a legitimate means of pursuing feuds and quarrels within communities, but as an activity distinguished by secrecy, malevolence and intrinsic wickedness. The element of secrecy was considered to deprive the intended victim of any warning of the coming attack or consciousness of what was happening, until the harm had been done. It was designed to prevent any opportunity for compromise, negotiation and reconciliation, and for defensive measures, and to shield the witch as far as possible from being called to account for the crime. Such a way of proceeding, linked to the witch figure, violates common human notions of courage, sociability and justice. In some aspects, witchcraft has been used to represent the evil inherent in the universe, manifesting through humans who are fitted by their natures to act as vessels or conduits for it. In others, it has embodied all that is selfish, vindictive and antisocial within human nature, epitomizing treachery and disharmony in societies that strive for unity and neighbourliness.
This will serve as the base of the hat. Next, you will work in rounds to create the body of the hat. The number of stitches and the type of stitches used will vary depending on the pattern you are following. Common stitches used include single crochet, double crochet, and slip stitch. As you continue crocheting, you will gradually shape the hat by increasing and decreasing stitches at certain intervals. This is what gives the hat its iconic cone shape. After completing the body of the hat, the final step is to add any desired embellishments. This can include adding a brim, attaching a ribbon or bow, or even sewing on a buckle to give it that classic witch hat look. Overall, crocheting an easy witch hat is a fun and rewarding project that allows you to unleash your creativity. It is a versatile accessory that can be customized to suit your desired style and can be enjoyed by crocheters of all skill levels. So grab your crochet hook and some yarn, and get ready to create a magical and whimsical witch hat!.
Reviews for "Crocheting a Witch Hat: Simple Pattern with Stunning Results"
1. Emma - 2 stars - I was really excited to crochet a witch hat for Halloween, but this pattern was a major disappointment. The instructions were unclear and poorly written, making it difficult to follow along. It seemed like the author assumed that I had prior knowledge and experience in crocheting, which I did not. Additionally, the sizing of the finished hat was way off, resulting in a hat that was too small and looked nothing like a witch hat. Overall, I would not recommend this pattern to beginners or even experienced crocheters.
2. Sarah - 1 star - This crochet witch hat pattern was a complete waste of time and yarn. The instructions were not only confusing but also lacked important details. The author didn't specify what type of yarn and hook size to use, leaving me experimenting with different combinations to try and get the desired outcome. Even when I managed to follow the instructions, the hat turned out misshapen and nothing like a proper witch hat. Save yourself the frustration and look for a different pattern.
3. Rebecca - 2 stars - I tried making the Easy Crochet Witch Hat and it was anything but easy. The pattern lacked clear visuals and the author's explanation of each step was convoluted. I found myself constantly unraveling my work and starting over because I couldn't understand what the pattern was asking for. The end result was a disappointing, lopsided hat that didn't resemble a witch hat at all. I would not recommend this pattern unless you enjoy confusion and wasting time.
4. Jason - 1 star - As an experienced crocheter, I was looking forward to making a witch hat for Halloween. Unfortunately, this pattern was a letdown. The instructions were poorly written, and it felt like the author rushed through the process without checking for errors. The sizing was completely off, resulting in a hat that wouldn't fit anyone's head properly. I ended up having to modify the pattern significantly to salvage my project. It's a shame because the concept of an easy crochet witch hat is great, but this pattern needs a lot of improvement.