What is the Pantone Color of the Year? From the Pantone website: "a color snapshot of what we see taking place in our global culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude". Pantone draws on information collected all over the world, looking at runways and street style, advertising trends, you name it!… Continue reading Greenery! Pantone Color of the year
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New Seamless Sweaters from Indie Designers
Berroco's Spring 2017 collection just launched, and the yarn and pattern booklets are hitting stores, but here in the Northeast it is still snowing. To me, snow = sweater knitting season. There has recently been a wealth of beautiful new sweaters by some great independent designers that are written for the Berroco Ultra® Alpaca yarn… Continue reading New Seamless Sweaters from Indie Designers
Portfolio Volume 3
The Portfolio Collections are without question my favorite part of my job. The series is a collaboration between the Berroco Design Team and a few of our favorite designers. In Volume 1 we went to the historic Slater Mill Museum. For Volume 2 we shot in a spectacular Federalist mansion. Volume 3 is the first spring/summer… Continue reading Portfolio Volume 3
Fiora and the Drop Dead Easy Knits Giveaway Winner
Congratulations to Tamara from MA, the winner of a copy of Drop Dead Easy Knits by Gale Zucker, Mary Lou Egan, and Kirsten Kapur (author) and the Fiora yarn to knit the Keynote Pullover. Thanks so much! From the first yarn swatches in the design office to seeing what all of you have knit with this yarn, Fiora remains a design team favorite. This… Continue reading Fiora and the Drop Dead Easy Knits Giveaway Winner
Drop Dead Easy Giveaway
Drop Dead Easy Knits, by Gale Zucker, Mary Lou Egan, and Kirsten Kapur, is the book that I as a knitwear designer want when I take a knitting vacation. It has the kind of projects that are interesting enough to hold my attention, but not so involved that they require all of it. The book features… Continue reading Drop Dead Easy Giveaway
Lopi Week: Lopi Love
How many Lopi sweaters are too many Lopi sweaters? My own personal odyssey with Lopi sweaters starts only about 14 months ago. On a whim I ordered a copy of Iceland Lopi, a Japanese knitting book. I found the photography and styling really engaging. Little did I know it would completely change the course of… Continue reading Lopi Week: Lopi Love
Lopi Week: Tips for managing colorwork
There are two things that are most appealing about knitting Lopi sweaters—the fact that they're mostly seamless (you have to seam or graft the underarm, usually) and they have some great colorwork patterns in the yokes. The trick with knitting colorwork yokes is making sure that your tension stays even, and that is partly achieved by making sure… Continue reading Lopi Week: Tips for managing colorwork
Lopi Week: Tips for working with Icelandic Yarn
Ístex Lopi yarns, like any other 100% wool yarn, are incredibly rewarding to knit and crochet. But some crafters have concerns about working with the yarn, and how to wear it once you make a garment. Here are some facts about working with Lopi that will make your project easy and fun! Fact: Lopi sweaters… Continue reading Lopi Week: Tips for working with Icelandic Yarn
Berroco Loves Knitty
The Berroco design team stays pretty busy designing the collections that Berroco produces each season—we estimate that this department produces over 200 knitting and crochet patterns each year—but we also love to design for editorial, too. Working with a publication like Knitty gives us designers a chance to cut loose from what Berroco wants and… Continue reading Berroco Loves Knitty
Projects you *could* make in under a week
Every year around the holidays, I'm struck with inspiration for a little last minute gift-knitting insanity. I think I sneak one more project in—something special for a friend or family member who deserves something from the heart even, if I didn't have the foresight to knit it in October like I should have. If you,… Continue reading Projects you *could* make in under a week
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