Did you know you can search by colour?
For some of you, browsing our website may usually be restricted to yarn released specifically as part of an update. With an increased frequency of updates and stock being available for longer afterwards, it would be understandable to become overwhelmed with choice. You probably already use the Shop Yarn menu with the options to select each yarn by name but what if you have a project in mind for which you have a rough idea of a colour you would like to use but are not that picky about which yarn to use? This is definitely something I struggle with...
ECY and sustainability, recycling, and re-using.
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An Introduction to all of the yarns at Eden Cottage Yarns
We get a lot of questions about our yarns, their compositions and what projects they are good for. This made us think it would be helpful to have all the details in one place for easy reference. Firstly, though, we have a few tips for how to use and care for your projects which applies to all of our yarns: We recommend that you wash dark colours separately or wash a swatch before using dark and light colours together We recommend handwashing all handknits/crochet, especially laceweight yarns, even where machine washing is indicated With all hand dyed yarns, I would...
Do you have any colour combination advice?
I do! Well, sort of. Firstly, I'll just say now - we don't have colour cards for the hand dyed shades, for a few reasons, which I've explained HERE. However... what I do have is a Flickr album full of colour combination ideas for Milburn 4ply (and soon DK). Now that there are 20 colours and they're dyed in larger batches, and are so consistent, it means that I can show you colours that go together in the confidence that we will actually have them in stock. To look at that, click/tap HERE. I do add to this now and...
Is ECY yarn cruelty free?
In short: yes. The element of unethical or cruelty-involved wool stems from merino - in Australia, due to the environment and merino sheep being very wrinkly, they are prone to something called flystrike. Be warned: if you google this you will not like what you see. It’s worth looking it up but you will see graphic images. It’s a horrible and painful thing. So the method for preventing this is known as mulesing (mules-ing). This is where an area of skin either side of the sheep’s tail is cut away in order to remove the wrinkles, and left to heal...