Last week, we talked a bit about Berroco Vintage®, and I mentioned that it can be interchanged with Berroco Ultra® Alpaca, making these two a perfect pairing for our Portfolio Volume 2 collection. This week, I'm diving into Berroco Ultra Alpaca. BUT FIRST! Have you voted for our Portfolio Volume 2 KAL project? Be sure to cast… Continue reading Berroco Ultra Alpaca + Help Choose Our Next Knit-along
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Berroco Vintage and Portfolio Volume 2
We're so excited to start talking about our new Fall/Winter 2016 pattern and yarn collections! We've got six brand new yarns for you to play with, along with new colors in some old favorites, plus nine pattern books, including the Berroco Portfolio Vol 2. The follow-up to our highly popular Portfolio Vol 1, this new… Continue reading Berroco Vintage and Portfolio Volume 2
Get to Know Berroco Boboli Lace
Love beautifully variegated yarns? Berroco Boboli Lace is a must-knit yarn for anyone who loves multi-colored yarn. This single-spun, slightly thick-and-thin yarn has great depths of color in both the variegated and semi-solid colorways and knits up lovely to boot! Boboli Lace is listed as a sport weight yarn (not a laceweight). It's the "kid… Continue reading Get to Know Berroco Boboli Lace
Knitting with Berroco Linus
We here at Berroco like to experiment with different yarn constructions, and Berroco Linus® is no exception. This unique yarn is a great choice for summer, as it's super light and contains no animal fiber. Let's take a closer look at Linus!Berroco Linus is a blend of 50% acrylic, 20% linen, 18% nylon, and 12% rayon—this… Continue reading Knitting with Berroco Linus
The Perfect Cotton Yarn for Summer Knitting: Berroco Modern Cotton
As the temperatures heat up, we knitters look for yarns that keep us cool and comfortable in warm climates. Berroco Modern Cotton™ is a great yarn for summertime garments and accessories—it's a blend of cotton and rayon that's super soft to the touch. Modern Cotton features a generous yardage—209 yards to 100 grams—and comes in 36 shades. It knits… Continue reading The Perfect Cotton Yarn for Summer Knitting: Berroco Modern Cotton
Knitting with Berroco Fuji
This week, I'm taking a look at Berroco Fuji™, a lightweight cotton, silk, and synthetic blend yarn that has a worsted weight gauge. Fuji is great for a variety of projects in both knitting and crochet patterns. Read on for more about this cool yarn! Fuji is a blend of 38% silk, 25% cotton, 22% rayon,… Continue reading Knitting with Berroco Fuji
Fun, fast knitting with Berroco Espresso
One of the reasons I wanted to blog about Berroco yarns is that, for all the Berroco yarn I've knit with and loved, there's still so many that I've yet to work with. This week's yarn feature is one of those—I'd never worked with Berroco Espresso® before knitting the swatch for this post. This brightly multicolored… Continue reading Fun, fast knitting with Berroco Espresso
Weaving in ends with Mykonos
One of our new yarns, Berroco Mykonos™, is a little different from the rest. Mykonos is a core-spun yarn, which means it's really two yarns, one wrapped around the other. The core of Mykonos is a super strong linen, which give this yarn its beautiful drape. The linen is covered in a wrapper of rayon which… Continue reading Weaving in ends with Mykonos
Berroco Fiora is a Cotton Blend Yarn for Summer
The weather's finally warming up here in New England so I'm looking at my warm-weather knits and trying to figure out what to wear. One of the key components of knitwear for summer is picking a yarn that will be lightweight and comfortable against the skin, and cotton blend yarns such as Berroco Fiora® fit… Continue reading Berroco Fiora is a Cotton Blend Yarn for Summer
Eco-friendly Recycled Yarn: Berroco Remix
Last week, designer Kristen TenDyke described in detail the construction of her Homa Sweater, designed in Berroco Remix®. Kristen talked about why she chose to use Remix for this sweater, and had previously written a review about Remix on her website. I had not yet knit with Remix, so I figured that today, to coincide with… Continue reading Eco-friendly Recycled Yarn: Berroco Remix
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