Ways with crescent shaped shawls: how to wear them
Following on from my post about our Laverton shawl pattern, I thought it'd be worth talking about how to wear shawls as it's something that comes up often. How do you wear a shawl? I see lots of people saying “I love making shawls but I never wear them”, and technically I could say the same. That is, I rarely wear shawls in a shawl-y way. You know - around the shoulders and pinned at the front. Occasionally if the back of my neck or shoulders are cold I’ll wear a shawl like a shawl, but I generally wear them...
ECY in NYC!
We have exciting news this month as one of our love stockists Loop are taking our yarn over to NYC for a very special popup shop. Where? Here Now132 Perry Street #2BNYC, New York10014 When? The 9th-11th November 2018 Where can I find more info? http://www.loopknittingshop.com/p/7511/Loop How is ECY involved? Susan says, "The Friday night preview is now sold out but there are places on Julie Arkell’s Sunday workshop as well as the shop chock full of gorgeous British yarns as well as haberdashery and handmade Loop treasure!" We have been busy producing special batches of Hayton 4ply in order to head...
Laverton shawl colour combinations
We have a very exciting pattern release coming soon which uses a combination of Carlisle Fingering and Nateby 4ply held double with Eldwick Lace to give a soft, snuggly cuddle of a shawl. In readiness for the release we have put together some suggestions for colourways which we think would create stunning shawls. For each combination the colourways will be listed in the following order, Carlisle Fingering, Eldwick Lace, Nateby 4ply mini skein. We have a collection on the website which has all three of these yarns arranged in the same order which you can see HERE. The first...
Neutral colours at Eden Cottage Yarns: why we love them and which ones to look out for!
Can we talk about neutral colours for a moment? Firstly, what constitutes a neutral? For me it’s a colour that isn’t leaning towards any particular colour group, if that makes sense. I suppose another criteria would be that it goes with everything, or most other colours. It starts with white, black, and grey, of course, but then for me it extends to beiges, oatmeals, browns, and creams. I was talking about it with Claire though and was surprised when she brought out dark blues as neutrals - to me they’re just blue, which is not a neutral, but as she...
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Let's talk about charity.. and yarn!
One of the greatest pleasures I take from having grown a successful business is that I’m able to donate to charity on a regular basis; as well as get involved with other one-off projects. With our Flower Power Fund (Marie Curie) yarn having sold like hot cakes last week, and Yarndale having announced this year’s charity project I thought it would be a good time to talk about charity in the context of yarn and ECY. Yarndale has been going for five years now, and when they started they had the Oxfam yarn amnesty thing and it still happens every...