I’m always excited to get another Berroco box of yarn! I see a lot of the same/similar yarns, but Berroco puts out unique and beautiful yarn. Between new fibers (SEAQUAL® Polyester in Seaspun) – or different fiber mixes (Pima Cotton and Cupro in Tillie), they always give something that has me imagining where I’d like it to go!

Berroco Tillie

62% Pima Cotton, 38% Cupro/100 g and 375 yds / 343 m; color Fay 10915

As soon as I saw this yarn, I was delighted to see the variation in the skein! It’s reminiscent of something I’d see from a hand dyer – and not from a large scale operation.

Once I stopped staring at how the yarn looked in different lights, I got to knit it! The softness that I felt in the skein didn’t prepare me for just how soft the swatch is. Between that and its machine washability – it’s a good candidate to use in a project that you gift.

Berroco Bozzolo

100% Cotton/100 g and 240 yds / 200 m; color Woolly Bear 10815

This swatch is very soft too. But if Tillie has a sophisticated softness, Bozzolo has a brushed and casual hand to it.

But even with its softness, the stitches are well-defined. Knitting with it was easy too. The yarn flowed through my hands, only delayed by my stopping to feel and squeeze the yarn. I swear it takes me a lot longer to knit an interesting yarn because I keep stopping to admire it.

Berroco Vernazza

50% Viscose, 25% Linen, 25% Cotton/50 g and 101 yds / 83 m; color Clovelly 10609

The yarn has a unique construction to it! The outer wrapper is a dyed viscose, and the inner core is undyed cotton and linen.

Like many linen yarns, it had a crunchy feeling to it while it was on the ball.

If you don’t launder linen yarns, you’re missing out!

I chose not to block it aggressively, and I even machine washed and dried the swatch. I almost-always launder yarns with at least some linen in it. If you don’t launder linen yarns, you’re missing out! There aren’t many chances when you can bring your knitting to the laundry room.

The swatch lost all its crunchy feeling and plumped up a bit once it got wet. The strand of yarn changed from a flat, ribbon-like quality to a round yarn. But, the swatch didn’t really change in gauge though. It mostly plumped up and got a bit thicker and filled in its eyelets.

I just kept the swatch as is from the dryer. With all those eyelets, I could have stretched it a lot more, but I thought that a swatch where it kept some of its rustic hand was a better fit for the yarn.

I don’t come across many warm weather yarns that have a subtle tweed-effect to it. Vernazza is quite different. And look at that color palette!

Berroco Seaspun

50% Cotton, 50% SEAQUAL® Polyester/ 100 g and 120 yds / 343 m; color Fjord 10309

I’ve already told you I’m a big fan of the SEAQUAL.

This yarn is very soft but the stitch definition still seems quite good. One thing I always look for is to see how the decreases look when they’re worked to create a line.

Final Thoughts on the New Line

I’m more impressed with the Spring and Summer line than usual!

In most cases, I find warm weather yarns to be crunchier and with less-stretch. All 4 of these yarns were lovely surprises. And given that I’m still new (ok, newER) to living in Florida, warm weather yarns have an increased importance in my eyes.

Now, I just need to find a new hiding place for it…