The latest KnitBits (an e-advert subscription that features free patterns made from their yarns) from Berroco is actually pretty awesome! I haven’t bought any Berocco yarn or tried a pattern, but I love to look. Sometimes the KnitBits offerings are so-so, or kinda have an 80s vibe–I think the styling contributes to this more than the patterns themselves–, but this posting features two beautiful patterns (I really like Eustice, and Luanna is also very lovely, a bit more fussy though). Norah Gaughn is the Design Director and I have to say I have liked nearly everything I’ve seen from her.
So, the coolest this about the KnitBits post is that Norah includes a mini tutorial on reading lace charts, for which–in my case, anyway–you can never have too many refreshers.
The tutorial that gave me my aha!!! moment with lace and lace charts is still Eunny Jang’s series of lace tutorials. (Here’s the first in the series of 4 parts.) Finally I understood the way of the YO, and for that I will be truly grateful to her.
