Comments on: Simple Beret Pattern (a Free Knitting Pattern)

By: TealArt Knitting: the knitting savant

TealArt Knitting: the knitting savant — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:44:58 +0000

[...] Simple Beret (Be sure to read the comments before knitting the pattern works, if you’re careful.) [...]

By: komirra

komirra — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:09:43 +0000

ummmm…….. will size 8 brim and size 10 body work, with no felting? i have a really soft yarn i want to use but its not wool.

By: Sondra

Sondra — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:19:32 +0000

I’ve been looking for a felted beret–I can’t wait to do it…. but what does “shape the brim so the entire hat lays flat” mean.

Do you knit anything on it or just use your hands and steam it?

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:45:57 +0000

I am making this for a birthday present with a scarf. I have already knitted the scarf in a worsted weight yarn. Can I not just knit the beret with this yarn and alter the stitches and no felting??

Many thanks, Monica.

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By: tycho

tycho — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:36:44 +0000

M1 is make one, or increase, it really doesn’t matter how you do this… I tend to do a raised bar increase of some kind, but if you like something else gofor that

cheers,
ty

By: Marilyn Maxcy

Marilyn Maxcy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:54:24 +0000

Could you please tell me what M1 means. I understand everything else in the directions for knitting this beret except that.

thanx

By: Priscilla Wild

Priscilla Wild — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:12:09 +0000

Could you post or send me a picture? Thankyou
Priscilla

By: tycho

tycho — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:09:44 +0000

This page and this pattern has become somewhat popular, as I can tell from my handy webstats.

I keep meaning to post an updated version of this pattern, which is clearly still an alpha release.

That day isn't today, I must say, but I thought I might say that: if you're going to knit this pattern make sure the number that you increase to ends up being a multiple of eight. I need to play around with the math to make sure that it's really as simple as I thought it was initially.

The other thing to note is that, even a very funny looking hat, prefelted, can look almost normal, post felting, so don't fret.

If anyone has knitted this pattern, I'd love to hear your experiences. Email em on to me. tycho -at- tealart -dot- com

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:43:55 +0000

I’ve been looking for a simple beret pattern for ages, this is just what i’m looking for!!
Thanks!!! Beth

By: tycho

tycho — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:37:03 +0000

I'll post pictures as I can get them.

Yes feltable wool is a must, sorry. I generally consider feltable wool a must for most projects.

And I screwed up the cast on number shpeil. Basically you need to have a multipe of five after the cast on round. So start with a multiple of 4 and then increase as noted. But other numbers would work too. I made one by casting on 90, and then I K3 m1, around.... (ending up with 120). There's a lot of freedom. And that's only if you want to be compulsive about the decreases linning up perfectly, which is really irrelevant, because you'll never see any fudinging you have to do (I was worried about running out of yarn on the second one, and so I decreased too fast, and it looked all funny like untill I felted it, at which point it looked perfectly normal.

Cheers, tycho

By: mom

mom — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:57:12 +0000

hmmm.don’t you need to use wool, if you want to felt it? will this work on washables?
if so, don’t the numbers change?
maybe posting a pic would help.