Crochet beret hat

Making it your own | Beret is a soft, round, flat-crowned cap.

Everyday Glamourous

I had some scrap yarn left from making a sweater out of this wool. To little to make a shawl but to much to having it laying around for eternity (read when I do a rigoureus clean up of my stash).

So on a rainy morning waiting to go out for brunch I made a beret for the winter months that are luckily not yet here.
It is a little mix of patterns you will find all over the internet. If you do not know things like front post or back post better to watch a tutorial instead of me explainig it here by typing ;-)

Pick out of it what you like and because it is crochet you can easily take it out and start adjusting it to your head size.

Row Description What you need to do
0 Start with a magic ring
  • I used a (scraps) of a Seehawer Naturfasern Alpaca Fino - 42 Red and a 4 mm crochet hook
  • Form a loop with your yarn.
  • Insert the hook through the loop.
  • Pull the yarn through the ring and end up with a magic ring.
1 Start the work
  • Chain 2 and make 14 double crochet in the magic ring.
  • Pull the string and close the magic ring and close the row with a slip sits in the chain two.
2 Increases
  • Chain 2 in the first double crochet make a double crochet.
  • Then start the increase by making 2 double crochet in each previous double crochet end with 28 double crochets.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
3 Keep increasing
  • Start by chaining 2.
  • * Make a front post stitch.
  • In the next double crochet make 2 double crochets (increase).
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
4 Increasing and two front posts
  • Chain 2.
  • * Where you have a frontpost make another frontpost.
  • Then make a second frontpost.
  • Increase with 2 double crochets in the next stitch.
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
5 Increasing and two front posts
  • Chain 2.
  • * Crochet your 2 front posts.
  • Then do an increase of 2 double crochets in the next stitch.
  • Insert a single double crochet in the next stitch.
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
6 Increasing and two front posts
  • Chain 2.
  • * Crochet your 2 front posts.
  • Increase with 2 double crochets in the next stitch.
  • Insert a single double crochet in the next double crochet.
  • When you meet your front posts again make a front post.
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
Row 7 - 10 or untill a 24cm diameter repeat row 6.
11 This round has no increases.
  • Chain 2.
  • * Crochet your 2 front posts.
  • Just double crochet in all of the other stitches until front post the front post.
12 Decreases
  • Chain 2.
  • * Crochet your 2 front posts.
  • Crochet two double crochets together (pick up the front loop of the first double crochet, pick up the front of the second en then finish one double crochet).
  • One double crochet in the rest until your next front post then make a front post.
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
Row 13 - 16 till a 24cm diameter Repeat row 12. You will have now 2 front posts and 4 double crochets as a pattern.
17 Start the ribbing.
  • Chain 2.
  • Crochet your 2 front posts.
  • Crochet a backpost in the next double crochet.
  • * Then crochet two front posts.
  • Crochet a backpost.
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
  • Close with a slipstitch on top of the chain 2.
Repeat row 17, four more times.
18 Optional: this will make a shell border.
  • Chain 2.
  • * Work five double crochet stitches into the next stitch.
  • Skip two stitches.
  • Single crochet in the next stitch.
  • Skip two stitches.
  • Repeat from * for the rest of the row.
Final You are done :-) Note: if you have a smaller head size repeat the decrease row 1 or 2 more times before you start the rib. Adjust the amount of front and back post when you do.