This beret was inspired by a Delft plate. Delftware is a well-known style of pottery from the Netherlands, distinctive for its blue-and-white colours. The beret’s delicate look and use of fingering weight yarn, for a lightweight fabric, makes it perfect for the cool transition between winter and spring.

Skills Required

• knitting, purling
• increasing, decreasing
• stranded knitting (pattern instructions point to resources)
• chart reading
• working small circumferences in the round (DPNs, two-circulars, or magic loop technique)
• long-tail cast-on (pattern instructions point to resources)

Yarn Requirements

• main colour (white in sample shown): approximately 150 yards
• contrast colour (blue in sample shown): approximately 25 yards

Other Materials Needed

• stitch marker
• tapestry needle for weaving in ends

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