Crochet: Slouchy Beret Finished?

So here's my slouchy beret that I finished.

The thing is, it looks just like a regular beret to me. Kind of.

When I think of a slouchy beret, there is a certain kind of look that I think of.

And what I have done, doesn't really look it. I had posted this type of question on my facebook page, and I got some really good suggestions on what my problem is. Well, not really problem, it's just that I am a tight knitter and a tight crocheter. Someone suggested that I crochet with a larger needle, when I'm trying to get a looser look. Since, I could just tell, as I was crocheting, that mine wasn't turning out the way that I thought it should.

Here's some pictures of what I think a slouchy beret should look like:

I can't even tell you why I think these look it, and mine doesn't. I can't even describe it. It's like when is a beret a slouchy beret, and when is a slouchy beret a rasta hat. Now a tam, I can describe. It's not slouchy and it's not even beret-like. It's just kind of sits on the head, like a round box.

Anyway, my next thoughts are, should I add a rose to this slouchy beret or not?

Crochet: One More Beret Finished

So, I did finish this one finally.


You would think I would be all beret'd out. But I'm not.

Here's a close up of the beret. It came out kind of fuzzy though.

I saw a video on YouTube for a slouchy beret, and I want to try it.

Side View

Then after the slouchy beret, I will be done with berets for a while.

This is the same as the others. Six inches on the inside of the beret. From one side of the brim to the other.

The back side is 11 inches from one side to another. I guess it was nice to know I could make a hat that has a nice name to it, instead of just "hat".

Crochet: Beret Finished

Here I am measuring the beret. I wanted to get it to 12 inches across, from one side to the other. I didn't get it that long, maybe about 11 inches. But that's okay, because the person I made this for, loved it.
I was able to keep the beret flat through the whole thing. Woohoo! It didn't get too wavy or start to bowl up too much. I think I had to unravel it one time, and that was it.

Here's my very first beret that I tried to do. As you can see it's so wavy. I never was able to figure out how to fix it.
Here's the two of my berets together. The one with the blue/green yarn coming out of it is the new one, the finished one.
Tada!!!!! Finished beret. Mary is modeling it for me. I did it!!!!

This is part of the new beret. I couldn't figure out how to move this picture to the top, so it's out of sequence, but this is where the beret is starting to bowl up a little bit. I think around this time, is when I started the decreasing.



So I did mess up a little bit, but I don't know where. My beret didn't go exactly the way the instructions said, but I think it looks alot better than what I had tried to do on my own.

Crochet: Beret

Beret, beret, beret.

I have about three different patterns for a crochet beret. I'm beginning to understand the main idea of a beret is that you need to keep it flat, until it's at the size that you want it, and then you can decrease. I followed from a video I saw on YouTube, but I think I did something wrong, because they started decreasing, and I was nowhere near to where I wanted the hat to be as far as circumference wise. So I'm thinking I might have to try and figure it myself, as to how to keep going until I am ready to decrease. I think I want this beret to be about 12 inches from one side to another, then I will start decreasing.

I would say it's about 7 inches at the present moment. Still a ways to go. I started a beret a while ago, I can't remember when. I don't like the way my first crochet beret turned out, and also, I could never fix it so that it would stop getting wavy.

Here's a link to my other "berets", that I tried to finish but never quite got around to it. First Beret Pic and Second Beret Pic.