The Little French Beret

• Worsted weight wool, cotton, acrylic, or blended yarn, such as Plymouth Encore, Lion Brand Wool, or Paton’s Wool for Main Color (MC)
• Heavier, Aran weight fuzzier yarn, such as Lion Brand Jiffy, Encore Chunky, or Skacel Ocean for Contrasting Color (CC)

Decrease (dec)

Insert hook into next stitch and draw up a loop. Repeat in next stitch, yarn over and pull through all loops on hook.

Reverse Single Crochet (rsc) or Crab Stitch

An edging created by working sc stitches in the opposite direction around the work. Tutorial videos are available in many places online if you have never used this versatile edging stitch

See http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa112997.htm for a tutorial.

• Color changes are done in the slip stitch joining the end of each round, as follows: with loop of current yarn on hook, insert hook into indicated ch. Yarn over with the new yarn, and draw that loop through. Continue stitching, allowing the unused yarn to hang from the wrong side of the work. It will be picked up in the next row, at that same spot.
• Entire hat is worked in rounds with right side facing.
• Stitch counts are at the end of directions for each round.
• Chain 2 at the beginning of each hdc round counts as first stitch (beg hdc) for that round.
• Ch 1 at the beginning of each sc round does not count as a stitch.