In mid-November, the Montmartre beret pattern and tutorial were released, resulting from the collaboration between Le Bazar de Anne Charlotte and Céline from Ten_years_appart.
They both worked hard to generously offer us this pattern that you can download by clicking here.
I am addicted to hats and berets, so I didn’t hesitate for a second to download the pattern and sew myself this little project (perfect for a quiet evening) accessible even to beginners.
The Montmartre beret is a project that sews up in about 1 hour and allows you to use up wool fabric scraps. If you’re sewing a jacket or coat, it can be nice to sew a matching beret. That’s what I did with this plum wool fabric and by reusing scraps of the lining with Japanese motifs from the same coat. Since I didn’t have enough lining scraps left, I cut 4 identical pieces (adding seam allowances) to reconstruct the circle forming the lining.
The beret consists of 2 circles (outer in wool fabric and inner in lining) and 2 arcs of circles that will form the beret’s edge. It is these last two pieces that will give it some height.
The first step is therefore to cut your pieces.
Next, we join the two arcs of the circle to close them.
We then assemble the circles thus formed to the beret crown (the other two pieces), leaving an opening in the lining (to be able to turn the work later). In a way, you get an outer beret and an inner beret.
Finally, we assemble the two berets together.
All that’s left is to turn it right side out and hand stitch closed the opening we left for turning the work.
For your work to be successful, the most important things are ironing, clipping, and notching, which are necessary at each sewing stage to avoid too many layers and to form that beautiful round shape so characteristic of berets.
The next step is to make more because this little project is a real breath of fresh air between projects that require more concentration and time.
I think it would be magnificent in silver polka dot velvet or in constellation jacquard from Atelier 27. What do you think?
