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Wet Felt Your Own Beret! Free Photo Tutorial from New Zealand!

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In my search for wet felting tutorials that create more than a flat sheet of felting, today I came across this awesome, well document tutorial, from a New Zealand website!  Which is funny because I’m in New Zealand and I don’t think I’ve seen any tutorials from here before today!  I found it over at This is Life. NZ!

So how about making a beret of your own?  You can choose your own colour, size, weight etc.  You can decorate it if you want to, create a colour combination just for you, or for a beret loving friend!  It’s a lot of work but totally worth it!

If you’ve been looking to buy or make a beret I hope you will have a good look through this page and check out what you need, how it’s done, and realise you really can make your own gorgeous fashion accessory and probably start today as you already have what you need to do it!

I love that you can follow along and the photos are so clear and easy to see what’s happening next.

So find that bubble wrap you’ve been saving, get into your stash and put a few colours together, then carve out some time to really get stuck into creating this gorgeous item as soon as you can!

You will find the link to the tutorial here!

Happy felting!

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Just about anything you can make in fabric you can make in knitting, but there are some styles that you just don’t see that often translated into knitting. 

For example, a button down collared shirt. This is a classic design, of course, and it looks great in a knit version, but it’s just not something you see much of. 

Noma Ndlovu’s Guglethu shirt is the pattern to try if you want to knit your own button down shirt. This one is inspired by cashmere tops (though the sample was made out of yak yarn, not cashmere, and uses two strands of lace weight yarn held together) and includes lots of high-fashion details like double-knit cuffs, collar and shoulder seams. 

It has a patch pocket on the front and 10 buttons including the button band and the cuffs. 

The designer says you can also use a DK weight yarn held singly if you’d rather, and that the shirt looks good in a variety of yarns. There is another version on Ravelry that uses Berroco Remix Light, which is a mix of nylon, cotton, acrylic, silk and cellulose fibers. It has a more relaxed look but it still really pretty. 

The pattern has 12 sizes, with a full bust measurement ranging from 32.35 to 72.25 inches, or 82 to 183.5 cm. The designer suggests 2 to 6 inches, or 5 to 15 cm, of positive ease when you pick your size. I could totally see knitting one that’s even bigger to wear more like a jacket, because I do that a lot with button down shirts I already own.

I love all the details on this shirt, which isn’t necessarily difficult to knit, but might introduce you to some things you’ve never knit before (like those cuffs with the plackets, or a shirt collar like this). 

To learn more about this shirt and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself, head to Ravelry. 

[Photo: Noma Ndlovu]

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