Cute Ribbon Twist Beret
The beret in the picture is knit from Rowan's Ribbon Twist, and the pattern can be found in their "Ribbon Twist Collection" pattern booklet. The beret calls for 2 skeins of Ribbon Twist, and it's knit flat on a pair each of US 11 and US 17 needles (although no doubt enterprising knitmeisters could convert the pattern to knitting-in-the-round on circulars).
The finished caps and berets I've seen for sale are priced from $150 to $300, so with Ribbon Twist on sale at Yarnzilla for just $9.95 per skein, you could make a hat-tree full of berets for the price of just one of the commercial caps.
My sixth-grade son's homeroom teacher is a funny, vivacious woman from South America, and I'm thinking that a beret knit in Ribbon Twist in color 116 -- with its rivers of hot pink and orange -- might make the perfect teacher's gift . . .
4 Comments:
Here's a link to another beret - just posted today!
Hi, Connie!
No link came through with your post -- would you mind sending it again? Thanks! -- Linda
Sorry Linda - I probably forgot to "paste" it.
http://www.knitandtonic.typepad.com/Leslouch.pdf
Hi, Connie! Thanks so much for the link to the free slouchy beret pattern -- that's cute! I knit one up last night using the pattern from the Rowan Ribbon Twist Collection that I'm about to blog about -- they sure go fast, and they put you in the forefront of fashion (if you can carry them off, and I'm not sure I can . . .). -- Linda
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