Sustainable yarns for eco-friendly crafting
Into the most sustainable yarn
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Are you doubtful about your next project? Have you found a beginner project but still don’t know which yarn to use? 🧐
Knitting can be a way not only to unplug and express your creativity but also to give new life to used or old clothes.
Cool!!! 🤩 but… how? 🤔
Keep reading and you’ll find also some knitting ideas to do with these yarn 👇🏼🧶
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We know there are lots of ways to be sustainable, but often starting at the source is the most effective way and reducing the resources needed to produce it can make a real difference! 💧🌳
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Ecolana
Ecolana is the first yarn we want to highlight. A single-ply fiber that stands out because of its natural composition.
Quite rustic at first sight, but with a warm and fluffy feel. Nature gives the splendid color range: this yarn has no chemical washing nor coloring. The 5 colour variations are the ones of wool in its purity.
🌈: 5 colors
🧶: 100-gram skein, single-ply
🥢: recommended 6mm needles
🥢: recommended 6mm needles
💡: 100% organic wool, rustic look, soft touch.
Another opportunity is to give a second life to used or old garments, it’s what happens with Recycled yarn and The Tape WAK’s yarns
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Recycled Yarn
Recycled yarn reuses old jeans and is made of 95% of cotton and 5% of other fibres. Thanks to the recycling process, the fibres are treated, mixed, and then spun into a single thread, ready to knit! 👖
🌈: 6 colors
🧶: 100-gram skein
🥢: recommended 5mm needles
💡: great rustic appearance!
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Bamboo Yarn
Bamboo yarn uses a very low quantity of water for growth, helping to conserve natural water resources. It also produces more oxygen per square foot than any other forest system, so reducing the impact and benefiting the environment at the same time.
🌈: 5 colors
🧶: 100-gram skein
🥢: recommended 3mm needles
🥢: recommended 3mm needles
💡: very soft and light yarn also perfect when used in combination with other types of fibres
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The Tape Yarn
The Tape is an environmentally friendly fibre because made from recycled shirts that deserve a second life 👕🔄
It’s a very particular yarn, perfect for decorative knitted or crochet pieces!
🌈: 16 colors
🧶: 250-gram skein, enough to satisfy whichever project you’d like
🥢: recommended 8mm needles or 7mm crochet hook
🥢: recommended 8mm needles or 7mm crochet hook
💡: its sturdiness and consistency will ensure that your projects are very durable
“We care a lot about our materials and how they’re sourced. We also contribute to local communities, creating opportunities for work and community development through our long production process: a little bit to us could mean a lot to them.”
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What else? Let’s knit! 🧶
Find these and many more yarns on We Are Knitters website! 👇🏼
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