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Where are the weeks going?? Thank you to everyone who came to see us at The Wool Monty at the weekend. Our next show will be Yarningham in Birmingham on 13th & 14th July 2024. You can find tickets and more information on the Yarningham website. We’d love to see you there! We’ll be in a room on the first floor so I *really* hope you’ll come and find us. 🤞

Since getting back from The Wool Monty, we have been able to photograph our latest updates, Titus Lace and Bowland Lace. Both of these yarns are now available on the website. Titus Lace is an ECY classic, a blend of Superwash extrafine Merino with mulberry silk. There are plenty of recommendations for patterns that would be suitable for this yarn in our blog post, which you can find the link to on our Yarn Specific Blog Posts Index.

Bowland Lace is pure British Bluefaced Leicester yarn. This is more woolly than Titus Lace. We have a few blog posts about this yarn including an Introduction, Pattern Suggestions and a Projects and Patterns blog post. This really is a beautiful yarn which seems quite solid in the skein but is completely different once made into fabric!

An Eldwick Lace update is also LIVE on the website. This is quite a special update as we have chosen the colours especially to coordinate with the 20 shades of the Milburn range. In the listings you will see how the colours look with the suggested colour and we have added the corresponding Milburn colour suggestions in the descriptions. The inspiration for this update came from my (Victoria’s) Love Note sweater by Tin Can Knits made using Eldwick Lace in Steel with Milburn 4ply in Rain, shown below. As this pattern works well with mohair and a 4ply/fingering-weight yarn in the same or a similar colour it was the perfect opportunity to show the combination of hand dyed and mill dyed colourways. If you’d like to browse just the pics all in one place you can do that by checking out the Flickr album of them HERE. Whilst you’re on Flickr, do check out our other albums — there’s all sorts there, especially if you scroll past all the update-specific ones! Of course this is only one way to use Eldwick Lace and we have lots of other suggestions for projects it is great for in our blog post.

We had a request a while ago for a Milburn DK yarn pack for Janie Crow’s Spirit of Flora CAL. We looked into it and selected suitable colours from our palette, working out quantities required. Having put this information together we thought why not add this to the website as an option! We now have pictures of the colour palette for the listing which is available on our website.

The next update on the schedule is Brimham High Twist — Superwash extrafine Merino with nylon, two plies spun to a fingering-weight yarn. It has been ages since our last update of this yarn and with having recently added mini skeins to the website we thought now was the ideal time to include full size skeins. That should be coming to the website towards the end of the month. The next two updates after that will be Pendle 4ply (pure Superwash extrafine Merino) and Keld Twist (Merino and linen, two plies spun to a fingering weight!). Plus lots more on the cards!!

Hello from ECY Shedquarters! We have another busy week ahead with Buxton Wool Gathering this weekend. Hopefully we will get to see some of you there! For information and tickets, check out their website. We will be bringing lots of lovely yarn with us so come along to see it all in person. Our next show after Buxton Wool Gathering will be The Wool Monty in Sheffield on 8th and 9th June. For more information or to book tickets check out the website.

Looking back to the end of last week, we added lots of mini skeins to the website. There are new Tempo 4ply and Rosedale 4ply mini skeins so do go have a look at those. We also have added loads of yarn packs for Tempo 4ply full and mini skeins. Yarn packs are the ideal way to get select a combinations of colours that work well together as we have taken the guesswork out for you. All yarn packs come at a discount from the price of the buying the yarns separately.

Tempo 4ply is a really versatile yarn — it’s our toughest sock yarn so it’s great for socks, but it is also soft enough for garments, and it’s got enough drape for lace too. It isn’t as soft as Brimham 4ply (that’s essentially the softer version of Tempo) but it’s soft enough for next-to-skin wear, especially considering how hardwearing and sturdy it is. I have been producing it since 2008! If you’d like to check out what people have made in it we do have a couple of blog posts featuring of projects made in Tempo 4ply, they can be found on our Yarn Specific Blog Posts Index (or, if you’re able to use Ravelry, you can of course look at projects on there).

A small update of Titus DK has also gone live on the website. Titus DK is a very luxurious blend of Superwash Merino and mulberry silk. The silk gives it a gorgeous shine (especially in dark or rich colours). It is ideal for all sorts of projects, from gloves to garments and everything in between. Blog posts about Titus DK can also be found on the Blog Post Index page.

Keep an eye out for more news from us as we have a number of yarn updates coming soon including Carlisle Fingering, Eldwick Lace, and Titus Lace.

Hello from ECY Shedquarters! At the recent shows, we have had lots of people asking about sport weight yarn and the skeins we had with us sold out super-fast so of course we had to oblige with an update of Pendle Sport! This is our Superwash extrafine Merino in a sport weight yarn and we’ve produced a lot of colours all in batches of ten skeins so that you can get sweater quantities. You can find all the available Pendle Sport in the recently added section of the website or in the Pendle Sport category, and you can find out more about this yarn in our Introduction blog post here. This update is a wide selection of ECY classic semi-solid colourways in sweater quantities so you should find something for any project!

We had several requests for more of the yarn for the Peppy Scarf as seen in Laine Issue 20. The yarn used for this is Keld Fingering in Heliotrope, Mellifer and Rust, which we have set up as a yarn pack. As these colours sold out so quickly, we have set up a preorder for the set and there are still a few of these available. You can find this on our homepage.

We are once again overflowing with yarn snippets which are a by-product of our post-dyeing processing. These colourful offcuts are too pretty to waste and make an ideal stuffing material for a range of projects. These are free but we do ask that you pay for postage. You can find them on the website here.

This year is jam packed with yarn shows and we can now announce that we will be exhibiting at Yarningham on the 13th and 14th July in Birmingham’s Uffculme Centre in the UK. We have a list of all the upcoming shows we will be attending on our website here. Our next show will be Buxton Wool Gathering on 18th & 19th May 2024 in Buxton, UK.

Happy February from ECY Shedquarters! Thank you so much for all the sale orders through January. Some of the older yarn can now be found in the Reduced to Clear section of the website. Now that the sale is over we are looking forward to this year. We are working through a couple of big wholesale orders which is super exciting, but we are also making progress with yarn updates. Our first update of 2024 has gone live and consists of mini skeins in Brimham High Twist and Rosedale 4ply.

Brimham High Twist is Superwash extrafine Merino with nylon, two-ply, high-twist yarn in a fingering weight. Rosedale 4ply is Superwash extrafine Merino, nylon and gold Stellina. Both are ideal sock yarns which can be paired with a full skein of any of our other sock yarns to give contrast details for toes, heels and cuffs. They would also be great for fingerless mitts or any other project needing smaller quantities of yarns.

With lots of mini skeins available we have also added our mini skein lucky dip selections back to the website. You can choose five, 10, 12 or 24 mini skeins and we will put a set together for you. If you choose 12 or 24 minis we can even gift wrap them for you for a small extra fee so that they are a total surprise, just select the WITH Gift Wrapping option from the drop down menu.

A little note about yarn packs: our yarn packs are made up of yarn from stock that’s listed as individual batches, and when orders are placed the website pulls yarn that’s in yarn packs from the stock we’ve added. However, if you buy multiple yarn packs in an order, or a yarn pack plus individual skeins in one order it can oversell them which means we would need to refund them or ask you to choose something else. It’s a frustrating glitch that we’ve never been able to fix. If you are buying ONLY a yarn pack it will be correct or if you are buying ONLY individual skeins it will be correct. It’s the combo of both that confuses it. If you aren’t sure how much stock there is please check the individual yarn batch listing to see the number of skeins in stock.

We will be at Unravel at Farnham Maltings on Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th February. It is the first of many shows this year so if you can come along to support us it would be great to see you! Tickets and more information about the even can be found here.

We are making good progress with our Oakworth 4ply and Oakworth DK updates which will be next to go live. Shortly after we will have Nateby 4ply, Bowland Aran and Keld Fingering in the schedule. We are working hard behind the scenes and will let you know when these yarns are ready!