There was red, white, and blue in the acrylic yarn I was given, and I had the idea of making a Texas flag beanie with a blue top and the sides red and white. My beanie-to-beret mistake here was I used a crochet hook a size or two too big, and the white yarn was a smaller diameter than the red and blue. The crown spread out flat instead of making a gentle curve, so once again I changed the plan to make a beret. The white yarn was the softest, so I used that for the single crochet ribbed band. To finish it off, I embroidered a star outline with the white yarn.

To get the two halves of the hat different colors, I didn’t work in the round, and didn’t carry the yarn, but rather worked half the stitches in white, switched to red, joined the white at the other side, chained 2, turned the work, and did the red back to the white, picked up the white and stitched to the red. All stitches are double crochet (American notation).