Congratulations to our winner Alicia! Thank you to everyone for entering to win—be sure to visit the Berroco Blog frequently, as we’ll have more giveaways in the future! Tomorrow is the day! The official launch of the new book Weekend Wraps by designers Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre—we love Cecily and Melissa’s work. They were both featured in Portfolio Volume 2 and their other titles, New England Knits and Weekend Hats, have prominent placement here in the Berroco design office’s reference library.
A few weeks ago I shared my contribution, the North Star Cardigan from Weekend Wraps. Knit in the incredibly cozy Berroco North Star, the body of this cardigan is a rectangle worked from right front to left front without shaping. A second rectangle is then picked up along one side and worked perpendicular to the first—this creates both the lower body and a sleeve opening. The sleeves are worked down in the round. No seams to sew! I love this easy sort-of-a-shawl-sort-of-a-cardigan shape and I especially love it in this soft squishy yarn, and I think you will too! I’m excited to announce we have a copy of Weekend Wraps to giveaway and the yarn to knit your own
HOW TO ENTER: Leave a comment below telling us your favorite shade of North Star yarn.
DETAILS: Must be 18 years or older to enter.
Comments must be posted by 11:59 PM EST on Monday, August 8, 2016. One winner will be chosen at random and announced on the blog next Tuesday, August 9.
I’m loving the new color Walrus. It’s a great deep shade of blue. North Star looks so cozy and squishy, I will have to pick some up!
humpback whale for sure!!!!!!!!! totally great with anything but it has a bluish undertone that makes it just a TOUGH differentfrom aplain oldblack!
How fun! I LOVE knitting shawls and wraps for the women in my life. My wonderful grandmother looks amazing in teal and she has been on my mind a lot lately. North Star Narwhal would look absolutely wonderful against her beautiful skin. I love the shade in general, but I think that yarn is especially lovely!
Arctic Tern
Snowy owl is my favorite color. Very lush looking great for this pattern.
I would love to knit this in Snowy Owl. I think that is also the color featured with this post, us it not? What a great pattern! Thanks for the opportunity!
Beautiful! Love the pastel colors but would have to go with Snowy Owl for this wrap
I love the Grizzly color way. Looks cozy!
Harbor Seal is my favorite! Thanks for this generous give away.
I love Harbor Seal. It has just enough dark in it with out being black or brown. The yarn looks so cozy and I am ready for fall!
Drawn to Caribou — such a subtle and pretty shade! Thanks for the contest!
I love the rustic look of the Grizzly colorway. Thanks for the chance to win!
Orca is beautiful. Also love elk.
I really love the Caribou. Its warm and cozy looking, but white enough to look crisp and give a pop of brightness against, probably dark, clothes.
I love Grizzly! This yarn looks so cozy!!
What a lovely palette of colors. I am going to pick Puffin as my favorite. Although it would not be a usual choice, I am expecting a baby girl in November, so I have pink on the brain, and this one is lovely
Orca for me – it looks like a rainy day in the mountains, I could use it today!
My favorite color is Orca. Thanks!
Love the names of the different colors! If I were knitting this pattern, I would choose Harbour Seal. That said, my favorite color is Grizzly.
I love Grizzly! I think it would such a comforting color knit in North Star. I love the pattern and yarn combo for this giveaway!
I love Grizzly….quick let me post this before I change my mind! The grays are wonderful, too!
I love Harbour Seal & Snowy Owl. Can’t decide which one I like best
My favorite color is Narwhal but I wouldn’t kick any of these out of my stash. Thanks!
I love to knit with all variations of gray. Especially gradients or several different colorways.
It would have to Narwhal, but I think any of the available colors are beautiful!
A hard choice! But I will say Harbour Seal.
It is a difficult decision because the choices are all so beautiful. My favorite is Orca.
What a pretty wrap! I’d like to knit one in Caribou.
What a pretty wrap! I’d like to knit it in Caribou.
My favorite is probably Narwhal, but this wrap I’d probably knit in Snowy Owl for maximum wearability.
It is very hard to pick just on color. I love them all.i would like to knit narwhal first
I like snowy owl and narwahl – great choice to have to make!
Puffin soo sweat Feminine
I like color 3015 Narwhal. It’s a nice blue to go with jeans.
Puffin! I always like pale pink!
I love Narwha… it has so much depth in the tone.
Walrus is nice.
I would love the Walrus to go with so many fall fashion and denim
I really like the Artic Tern. 🙂
I love the Walrus to go with so may fall fashions and of course denim.
Walrus.
I love all the colors but my first choice would be Arctic Tern.
I love Puffin, but think Tundra would be more practical for me.
North Star is fantastic to work with. I’m presently knitting Cocoon using Snowy Owl and it is beautiful.
I think I like Caribou.
I think I like Caribou the best!
I’m presently knitting Cocoon using Snowy Owl. I would love to make this wrap in Narwhal.
Very tough decision- but I think Orca would be beautiful knit up into a scarf or hat.
Artic tern
Lovely wrap. Very hard to choose between Tundra & Puffin.
Caribou! It looks so soft and cozy! It’s my choice ❤️
Arctic tern is lovely, can’t wait to see it in person at Stitches Midwest!
I like Caribou, a lovely neutral.
I loved the original natural colors when North Star came out last year, but I really like the new Orca colorway!
What an awesome design……..the Narwhal yarn looks really cool……
No particular color choice because I LOVE them all.
Generally I prefer dark colors, but this soft, squishy yarn reminds me of newly fallen snow, so I think I’d pick Tundra for this piece.
This would look wonderful in Tundra.
I love the Orca colour. Blue is my favourite colour. Could just see a cardigan or a cozy shawl knit in this!
The NorthSyar cardigan would awesome in this yarn and colour!
Snowy owl is my favorite!
Harbor Seal! Love the colors and can’t wait to try the yarn
Orca!
I like all of the names of this North Star yarn but the color I like most is Orca.
I like Orca – 3016. It’s a nice relaxing blue shade.
I think it would have to be Walrus, although I do like Narwhal and Snowy Owl too!
I choose Snowy Owl for the cardigan, but Puffin is calling me, too.
I think I’m a grizzly girl. That wrap is calling my name.
I am presently knitting Cocoon and using Snowy Owl. I would enjoy making this wrap using Narwhal.
Hi berrocco love your yarns!! Youve made it tough to pick one favorite but narwhal is my favorite North Star (with arctic tern a close 2nd!)
I think walrus
I haven’t had the privilege of working with Northstar Yarn, so naming my favorite would be difficult. It looks so soft and cozy in the sweater that I’ll be adding it to my list of new yarns to try😀.
Actually I think I like ALL the colors–but if I had to choose only one it would be Caribou.
Harbour Seal
Orca!
A cozy soft sweater in caribou and another in Orca would be lovely. It’s too hard to pick, so something in both would be wonderful.
Love wraps! my colors Caribou. Elk or Humpback .
They are all such lovely colors but I would go with Norwhal. It reminds me of colors in the Caribbean.
I love Snowy Owl, but would have a hard time passing up Arctic Tern!
Narwhal— perfect compliment to jeans!
I love all the colors, but, I would love to use the Snowy Owl color in a project first.
The Narwhal just seemed the right color to me.
I love this pattern and can soooo see it in my fall wardrobe in Orca.
Anything in purple!!
Favorite color is Puffin! (But all of the colors are lovely!)
Narwhal gets my vote.
A very cozy wrap it would be in snowy owl or narwhal for me!
For the last few months I’ve become obsessed with hazy greenish blues, so I’d definitely choose Narwal.
All the colors are great but t I love Arctic Tern! Yarn looks so soft and cozy!
Arctic Tern is my favorite! Thank you!
This yarn is gorgeous! I would go with Snowy Owl 🙂 I’ve been a huge Berroco fan for years now
I love Snowy Owl – it seems to really accentuate the softness of the yarn. I would like very much to knit a wrap with that yarn!
Tundra would look very elegant. It was a hard choice, because all colors are wonderful.
Hi Alicia!
You’re the winner of our prize for the Berroco North Star giveaway! I tried emailing you but haven’t received a response yet—if you could please email me at apalmer at berroco dot com, we will get your prize on its way to you.
I have two favorites, Walrus and harbor seal. What wonderful shading.
Love grizzly! 🙂
I love the new Arctic Tern shade beautiful!
I love the shade of Orca, what a lovely shade! I have always loved the blues.
All the colors are lovely. Narwhal is my favorite.
snowy owl! it looks just as soft as a cloud
I can’t decide between Orca and Arctic Tern. Both are gorgeous colors!
Definitely Orca
Orca! Thanks for the giveaway!
Favourite North Star shade is Snowy Owl! The perfect shade of grey 🙂
Snow Owl! Because it it reminds me of a Harry Potter owl.
I love the moody shade of Humpback Whale. Perfect for a rainy autumn cardi!
Thank you for the chance to win. I love the look of this cardigan, especially because at first, it looks like a shawl. The construction is intriguing and I would be ecstatic to try North Star yarn. The colors are all lovely but my favorite would have to be Harbour Seal. Thank you and happy knitting!
Arctic Tern. I’m a sucker for purple, soft and fuzzy, comfort knitting.
So hard to choose! All the colors are gorgeous! But Snowy Owl and Narwal did catch my eye for sure!
Narwhal is a beautiful color but I like the the Snowy Owl looks great with this pattern.
I have to go with Tundra! It’s so hard to chose all the colors are great.
Snowy Owl!! Because all the coziest knits need to be the perfect shade of gray.
I love that Walrus shade. So beautiful.
North Star narwhal!!! Loving the design of this sweater. Looks like it would work for any body type.
I love the Walrus shade. So beautiful!
Narwhal if I have to pick just one 😉
I’d love to knit this yarn in tundra. Great cardigan too!
I love the color Grizzly! Brown is such a comfy color especially for a shawl!
I love Narwhal!!
Snowy owl. Lovely multi hued gray. Looks so soft!
Snowy Owl would be my pick…love how cozy that North Star cardigan looks, and I,too, thought Harry Potter
The north star cardigan is beautiful and it would look great in the new color narwhal.
Snowy Owl is lovely. Very cozy cardigan!
Puffin – a wrap in fluffy pink sounds so feminine and cozy at the same time
I love how Orca has just enough hue to give it color, but is also muted to match almost anything. Definitely my favorite.
Orca is my favorite. I’d love a cardigan in this lovely blue.
Tundra is delicious!
So hard to choose… Snowy Owl would make a wonderful sweater.
I just love Puffin. Just the right shade of pink.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Snowy Owl – I love the shade! I am a sucker for greys and taupes…what can I say 😄😄😄
Love the Arctic Tern! Can’t wait to try it.
The new color: Artic Tern, is without a doubt my favorite color!
Arctic Tern is without a doubt my favorite !
It looks like such a cozy yarn! Hard to choose, but I think my favourite is Tundra. Thanks for the chance to win!
I like the Caribou. It would look great as a cowl.
Narwhal is my favourite, very romantic shade!
My favorite is humpback whale.
Has a winner been determined yet for this? I haven’t seen it anywhere?!
Hi Cynthia,
Yep, we have a winner for this! I was waiting to hear back from the winner and that just happened the other day, and I’ve been too busy to update the post. Thanks for the reminder!