As many of you may recall, I was all worked up a year ago when Mo Rocca declared, on National Public Radio no less, that he didn't like homemade sweaters because they are "always itchy." Several fellow ravelers and I took quick action and that's all documented in my earlier post here. The sweater was presented… Continue reading Mo Rocca itchy sweater saga goes mainstream

LENA!!

From left to right and top to bottom: 1 – Looking for new yarns to buy is fun any time, but imagine being able to gaze out this window at the same time. 2 – One booth at the yarn fair  (Pitti Filati) was built around theme of kilims.  I like the faded earthy colors.… Continue reading yarn in the making (or norah’s trip to italy)

I have to show off some of the loot I scored at Christmas. When one of John's daughters suggested that we all exchange handmade or recycled gifts (or any combination thereof) I wholeheartedly agreed and passed the idea on to the Gaughan side of the family as well. I made out big time.

Our art director discovered a fun little program called Pixelmator, which can transform an image or a small bit of an image into an elaborate all over pattern or a kaleidoscopic wonder. I am totally mesmerized by it too. Check out these transformations of our free pattern Baby Ferris (shown unaltered  bottom right).  Those baby… Continue reading cosmic baby ferris

Update from Norah: It's always a thrill for the design team to see folks knitting and wearing our patterns. Imagine how cool it is to see a whole group of knitters in one of our designs. The Purl Diva did a KAL using Ditto, a free pattern originally knit in Latitude. Liz knit hers in… Continue reading ditto-along

Foreseeing that something BIG was happening, Cirilia brought Berroco to the Sock Summit. She's not selling anything (we leave that to the shops). She IS promoting our sock yarns (Berroco Sox™, Berroco Sox™ Metallic, Comfort® Sock and Ultra™ Alpaca Fine, showing our audio slide shows, telling folks about the sock star contest and holding daily… Continue reading berroco is at the sock summit!

Cirilia took some intriguing shots at our recent Knitbits photo shoot.

We decided to take a different tact this week and showed Friday's free pattern (named Ditto) in size large, photographed on our fabulous new size 16 dress form. This, conveniently  😉 , happens to be my size. Naturally, it made sense for me to wear this sweater to the trade show. Cirilia gave a link to… Continue reading Free pattern in action

The Fall '09 booklets have arrived at Berroco and have started to ship to stores!