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Hello, Here's a preview of this Sunday's update for you - I hope it's useful! There are links to the pages where the yarns will be in case you want to bookmark them ready. The homepage is http://www.edencottageyarns.com  And if you'd like an email reminder (it goes out at the same time as the update goes live at 12 noon UK time) you can join the newsletter HERE. A wee note: as many of you will already know, updates sell out fast. And my website DOES NOT have a shopping cart hold function; therefore when you add yarn to your...

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Following on from part one of this update preview, I thought I'd best show you the rest of what's going to be appearing. Firstly there's a little Bedale 4ply - that's the 4ply baby yak/silk blend. It's soft and cosy but drapey too. It's designed to be a good alternative to cashmere/silk blends, and I think it lives up to that really well. There's just one dyelot of Rambling Rose and one dyelot of Compost (I personally think the Compost is darker in real life). [start_gallery] [end_gallery] The rest of the update though is BFL Sock. Here's one of each,...

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The next Eden Cottage Yarns update is on Sunday at 12 noon UK time, and here's the first batch of yarn that'll be in it - this is all Tempo 4ply, which is our machine washable wool/nylon sock yarn. (That's the batch of Faded Bloom ^^) This particular blend is fine, soft, and drapey - it's by far the loveliest version of this fibre blend that I've ever encountered. Although I'm currently knitting a shawl in this yarn, I do have socks made in it, and they have withstood a huge amount of abuse - they are my most long-lasting and...

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Today we have a surprise update for you. Except this is a preview for it making it less of a surprise now. Firstly, there are the Tunny kits I mentioned a couple of days ago - they're new, and there'll also be six kits for the pink/grey Holyrood shawl using Bedale 4ply (baby yak/silk). (the above photo is courtesy of Justyna Lorkowska - she designed this beautiful shawl) There's also a sale going on on a wide range of our patterns. Basically I'm wanting to move from A4 to A5 because A5 is so much more practical (for home storage,...

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I occasionally indulge myself in a flat lay. If you don't know what that is, it's an image composed on a flat surface, essentially. The thing is, and this in itself is weird, flat lays have become somewhat controversial within the social media context. Lots of people love them; lots of people think they're overly-curated/styled and too fake. As always, I rather think all view points are valid and there's no right answer. Anyway, I'm not here to be controversial (hell no), but it's something pertinent to me so I thought I'd share my thoughts on it. As I said,...

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