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See How Berroco Sweaters Look on a Live Model

August 9, 2013 by Sarah White

gibson sweater berrocoI’m not proud to admit it, but I’m not a really regular reader of the Berroco blog, even though I love Berroco yarn and I think Norah Gaughan is a genius and I’m so inspired by what they do.

That said, I did recently pay a visit and saw this awesome “What to Knit” segment featuring a real life (and really tall) person trying on different knit sweaters so she could see what they looked like on her in real life and with her real clothes.

It’s really fascinating, because things you don’t expect to look good on her end up being really cute. She and I both fell in love with Gibson, a big top-down cardigan with ribbed panels on the front and a wide collar. It’s worked in a new yarn, Kodiak, which is a blend of alpaca, nylon and wool.

Both the yarn and the pattern are set to be released soon, and I’m rather looking forward to it.

[Photo via Berroco.]

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Comments

  1. Ashley Palumbo says

    August 9, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    Glad you enjoyed the video, Sarah!

    I just wanted to clarify that this yarn and the pattern are actually available now, but some shops wait until the end of summer to take their orders.

    Anyone interested can use our store locator to see whether or not your LYS has them in stock: http://www.berroco.com/store-locator.

  2. Sarah White says

    August 9, 2013 at 12:14 pm

    Oh, OK! Thanks, Ashley.

Have you read?

Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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