In mid-November, the Montmartre beret pattern and tutorial were released, the result of a collaboration between Le Bazar d’Anne Charlotte and Céline from Ten_years_appart.

They both worked hard to generously offer us this pattern, which you can download by clicking here.

I’m a hat and beret addict, so I didn’t hesitate for a second to download the pattern and sew myself this little project (perfect for a quiet evening), which is accessible even to beginners.

The Montmartre beret is a project that can be sewn in about an hour and is a great way 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-inspired patterns 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. These last two pieces give it some height.

The first step is to cut your pieces.

Next, we join the two arcs of the circle to close them.

We then join the circles formed at the beret’s crown (the other two pieces), leaving an opening in the lining (so you can turn the piece inside out later). This creates, in a way, 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 piece. 

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 rounded shape so characteristic of berets.

The next step is to make more because this little project is a real breath of fresh air between more demanding projects that require concentration and time.

I think it would look stunning in black velvet with silver dots or in constellation jacquard from Atelier 27. What do you think?