Swiss Check Scarf If I had one inspiration for this scarf, it was the planned color pooling pictures that keep popping up in my Facebook feed (dude, I follow a lot of knitters). If I had two inspirations for this scarf, it was PCP (such a bad acronym!) and laziness; the idea of fiddling with a yarn and a design until I had nailed a certain color pattern seemed about as appealing to me as taking all three of my children to the dentist by myself for concurrent appointments. So I went with a…

I know a lot of knitters are multi-crafters, doing knitting as well as crochet or weaving or other yarn (or non-yarn) crafts. And of course yarn looks different when we use it in different crafts, …

As you may know, Berroco is the U.S. distributor for select James C. Brett yarns. One of the new yarns that we’ve brought in this year is Northern Lights. Ever since I saw this fun and colorf…

Variegated yarn, or yarn dyed with more than one color, is one of my most favorite yarns to use. It can have more subtle changes

This easy striped blanket pattern blends multiple self-striping yarns (or lots of leftover scrap yarn) together for a colorful, woven look.

You’ve probably seen wavy stitch patterns like Feather and Fan/Old Shale before. These patterns combine increases and decreases unevenly spaced across a row in such a way that it creates a wa…

The Thoughts of You scarf knitting pattern features a 10-row repeat knit and purl stitch pattern that creates a reversible geometric design. This scarf is easy to knit! After a few inches of knitting you may find you don’t need to refer to the written directions… making this a great on-the-g

I like Variegated yarn or Self-striping yarn as the uniqueness of the colour changed/mixed. But I hate how it turn out in certain way when the stitch pattern repeated consistently and the colours t…

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