How to tie a beret?

Each needlewoman sooner or later wonders: how to take a beret? This headgear has long been a success for both men and women. In past centuries, beret was not just an element of clothing. It was decorated with feathers, ribbons, precious stones and flowers. Berets were modest - cloth, woolen, and elegant - velvet, brocade. Nowadays men prefer felt boots, and women, as a rule, are knitted. It is very convenient, because yarn for beret is easy to pick up in tone to coat, raincoat, etc. The knitted beret can be as light, for example, from a thin wool coat, or warm - from a thick 100% wool or mohair, double, on a lining or even tied from a fur band.

Before you tie a beret, you need to decide what it will be connected - knitting or crocheting. Experience shows that berets, knitted on knitting needles, are more friable, soft, more convenient for giving the effect of "wave". Berets, crocheted, are more dense and hold a better shape.

If the master knows how to tie the hats, berets will not be a problem for her. The basic principle of knitting berets is first expansion, then narrowing. Knitting, as always, begins with the creation of a pattern with those spokes (crochet), from that yarn and the pattern that beret is going to knit. After establishing the proportions, i.e. Calculation, as in 1 cm of loops and rows, it is necessary to start calculating the product itself. It should be remembered that when knitting any headgear, the required number of loops for the set is calculated not from the full girth of the head, but their girth reduced by 1-1.5 cm. This is done so that the knitted headdress is seated tightly over the head.

So, the calculation is made. Now it is theoretically clear how to tie a beret, and you can start to work. If the initial part of the beret provides for the presence of a bar, it is tied, as a rule, with an elastic band (on spokes) or columns without a crochet (crochet). Having connected a bar of necessary height (usually it is 3-4 sm), we begin addition of loops. In order for the beret to be of even shape, the loops should be added not chaotically, but evenly. If a thing should be in the form of a six- or octagon, the total number of working loops must be divided into 6 or 8 pieces, respectively. If you want to get a beret of a circular shape, then the number of pieces can be 10 or 12. The last loop of each of the parts and will be the extension line. For convenience, it is possible to mark the places where the loops are added with contrasting thread or marking rings.

The addition of loops is carried out by tying two or three loops from one in each face line along each marked line. It depends on how wide the product should be. Here everyone decides how to tie a beret - lush and broad or small. Adding is done until the desired width of the headgear is reached. After that, they are tied straight (without adding loops) 1 -2 cm. Then, the loops begin to decrease along the same lines and the same number of loops. That is, if the extension was tied from 1 loop 3, then, and subtracting, tying together, 3 loops into one. Decrease is made until there is 1 loop left in each part. They all need to be gathered together and tightened. After this, the edges of the beret are joined together. It is best to do this with a vertical knitted suture.

Now, knowing how to tie a beret, you can fantasize over various options. One of the varieties of berets is the so-called rastaman beret - this integral element of the reggae style, the same as, for example, the hairdo of the dreadlocks. So how to tie a rastaman beret? In form - this is an ordinary, very voluminous beret. Rastamansky makes it a color: as a rule, they are alternating wide strips of green, red and golden (yellow) colors. Sometimes they are still separated by thin strips of black. So, if you know how to knit an ordinary beret, then it will not be difficult to create a rastaman hat .