I am a knitting fool, with all these knitted gifts getting completed. Here is another knitted gift that I made with stash yarn. Vivecita is a small, child-size version of Viveca, from Berroco. So far I have made a total of 3 berets:
- Viveca Beret (for myself back in February)
- Viveca Hunter Beret (as a gift earlier this month)
- Vivecita (as a gift, today's blog post)
The yarn I used is Bernat Softee Baby, in Soft Peach. It is 100% acrylic. I used this yarn (that's why I called it a stashed yarn) for the I Heart Hats that I made last Christmas.
The modifications that I did for this pattern was to only do 6 fan repeats across the row, rather than the 12 for an adult beret and on the height, knit up 3 fans, rather than the 6 for an adult then start the crown shaping. I also knitted the ribbing at the start edge for about a half inch rather than a full inch.
The ribbing makes it stretchy. This ribbing is a K1, P1 ribbing. The back and forth with the yarn string to go from purling to knitting is enough to make you batty. That is one reason for the half inch modification, mentioned earlier.
That's a close-up of the ribbing. Since I was knitting a child-size version of my favorite beret, this knitted up in no time. This only took one weekend to do. I knitted while watching movies last Sunday.
I really hope that the modifications worked and that it actually will fit the recipient's head. She is only 2-ish, but still. I hope it fits!!
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