Delft Beret

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

• 3.25mm circular needle, 16" long
• Set of 3.25mm DPNs
• Stitch marker
• Tapestry needle for weaving in ends

Gauge

29 sts and 40 rows to 4" in stranded pattern after blocking