Norah recently returned from Pitti Filati in Florence, an industry trade show loaded with inspiration. She snapped lots of photos between appointments at the booths, and captured all kinds of textures and colors:
Category: trade show
Stitch Red
Berroco is proud to be participating in Stitch Red, a national campaign working to raise awareness about women’s heart disease. We’ve designated our Vintage yarn in color #5150 Berries as a Stitch Red product, so we’ll be donating 5% of all profits on this yarn to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. Norah… Continue reading Stitch Red
June ’12 TNNA Recap
We’re back in the office after attending The National Needlearts Association’s summer trade show in Columbus, Ohio. We had a great time chatting with yarn shop owners and designers, and this year we set up a fitting booth full of sweaters in sizes large and small (and styled after our Vogue Knitting Live booth). With… Continue reading June ’12 TNNA Recap
TNNA in Phoenix
Norah and I returned to the office last week after our most recent trade show, The National Needlearts Association’s winter show, where yarn shop owners got to learn about our new products for spring 2012. The event was held at the convention center in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, and with the high temperatures reaching 70 degrees… Continue reading TNNA in Phoenix
Happy 2012
A brand new year is here! We’ve got lots of exciting things planned for this month. We’ll be attending Vogue Knitting Live in New York City next week, then we’re going to Phoenix the week after for The National NeedleArts Association’s winter trade show, where we’ll be showing our new spring yarns and patterns to… Continue reading Happy 2012
The Latest from Florence
Norah just returned from the Pitti Filati show in Italy, on the hunt for new yarns for Berroco to sell. One of the biggest yarn and knitting trade shows, it’s open only to those within the industry. Inspirational artwork, experimental machine and hand knitted fabrics, and color and yarn trend forecasting are all brought together… Continue reading The Latest from Florence
TNNA Recap
We recently returned from The National Needlearts Association's summer trade show in Ohio, where shop owners got a chance to learn about our new products for fall. The trip to Columbus was a blur of enthusiastic people, excellent food, and exciting yarns, and we had a wonderful time sharing the new fall yarns and pattern booklets. For this… Continue reading TNNA Recap
Whirlwind June…
June has been exactly like a summer storm. A bit scary, very unpredictable, fast-moving, and at times refreshing and beautiful. It has been an exhausting but inspiring month... Norah and I spent the first half of the month consumed by TNNA! If you weren't following our updates on Twitter you can see a wonderful recap… Continue reading Whirlwind June…
Sock Summit INDEED.
"Just as the bird’s wing evolved to fly, the human hand evolved to manipulate. An idle hand is not a happy hand. We really need to use our hands; they’re not happy if they’re not doing something." [Barbara G. Walker] The quote above captures my impression of Sock Summit 2009 pretty accurately! I'm very familiar… Continue reading Sock Summit INDEED.
TNNA Columbus Videos + More
What can I say that hasn't already been said all over the Interweb? I was Tweeting our trip, you can catch up at our Twitter page. It was a whirlwind! It was my second time attending the The National Needle Arts trade show and I felt a lot more comfortable with my new perch. The… Continue reading TNNA Columbus Videos + More
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