Special effects yarn

Effect yarn is a 100% polyester yarn, which contains a reflective material that gives a stunning effect to your knitwear. Choose from Lurex yarn in several colours.

 

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Make everyday fun with novelty yarns

At Creativ Company you can find the most wonderful glittery yarn. Our novelty yarn can be used for countless projects, whether they involve knitting needles, crochet needles, glue, cardboard and much more besides. Only your imagination sets the limits for what you can make from our gorgeous reflective novelty yarn in many beautiful colours.

Our beautiful Lurex yarn is a great example. It comes in a wide range of exciting colours. All the colours feature a glittery thread running all the way through the ball of yarn, resulting in a lovely glittery effect for your yarn project.

If you need a little inspiration for a new project, or perhaps some instructions on something you're not sure how to approach, take a look at our huge idea catalogue. Here you will find lots of inspiration, patterns and guides for all kinds of creative projects. 

Beautiful projects with novelty yarn

If you’ve discovered our gorgeous novelty yarn, but need a project to use it for, don't worry, help is on the way. Here are a few ideas what you can use the glittery yarn for. Remember that if none of the following ideas appeal to you, there are plenty of others in our big idea catalogue.

Novelty yarn is perfect to use in a knitting project. For example, a stylish airy blouse or a gorgeous hat to keep the winter blues at bay. Maybe some dolls or teddy bears need a new outfit?

If you’re more into crochet needles, novelty yarn can also easily be used for your crochet projects. Small crochet animals or teddy bears are trending these days.  Using reflective novelty yarn will create a new, eye-catching effect on the small soft animals. You might like to use glittery yarn for some parts of the animal and do the rest with plain yarn. A little of something can also go a long way.

You can also crochet or knit small ornaments that you can fasten to your clothes as a brooch, or attach to an elastic band to create a beautiful new hair elastic.

Reflective Christmas trees, Easter bunnies and flowers

If crochet needles and knitting needles aren't your thing, or if you’re going to do creative projects with children, there are plenty of other ways to have fun with novelty yarn. Get a glue stick, some cardboard, novelty yarn in your favourite colour and a pair of scissors, and you're well on your way to starting a nice, fun project. 

For example, you can make Christmas decorations or Easter decorations, or you can make pretty flowers to decorate your home or other places. Maybe your sofa cushions could be spiced up with some glittery flowers?

The basic idea is to glue the yarn onto a piece of cardboard. And the shape of this piece cardboard is actually entirely up to you. If you want to make a Christmas tree, you can either cut the cardboard to make it look like a Christmas tree, or you can make a cone from the cardboard so that it can stand on its own.

Then cover the cardboard well with glue so that the yarn can stick to it. You might need a lot of glue, or you might like to try out different kinds of glue to find the best one for your project. Maybe a glue gun is best, or perhaps a glue stick does the best job. If you use a glue gun, make sure not to completely cover the cardboard with glue first, but apply the glue along the way so that it doesn't harden.

No matter what kind of glue you use, the next step is the same. You have to wrap your novelty yarn around your cardboard to create a nice surface. You can either choose to position the yarn threads neatly next to each other so they completely cover the cardboard, or you can place them higgledy-piggledy so that you can see the cardboard through them.

You might prefer to place the yarn in neat coils instead of wrapping it around the entire piece. It is really only your imagination and dexterity that set the limits for your creative expressions with the novelty yarn.

If you are going to make Easter chicks, flowers or something else, the method is exactly the same. Or maybe you’ll find your own method that suits you better.

Creativity brings calmness and extra value to everyday life

When we are creative, we give our minds a break from hectic everyday life. We relax and immerse ourselves in something we like doing. Just ten minutes can be enough for us to unwind and recharge our energies, and make us ready to go again.

Some creative projects are more demanding than others, but if you find something that is just right, you can actually switch your brain off a little and let your body and intuition take over. This is when art is created. For example, you can use our beautiful novelty yarn to make gorgeous pom-poms. They can be used for anything. Use them to decorate your slippers, or put lots of them together and create a blanket. The main thing is that making a pom-pom has an almost meditative effect, when you repeatedly wrap the yarn around again and again. This allows your brain to relax or think of other things while you are being creative.

That’s why creativity, either on your own or with others, is such an important part of our everyday lives. It gives us peace of mind and creates meaning. Think of a cosy session with the children, when you are all involved in a creative project together. Such moments can be so precious. Even though the resulting creative products might not end up meriting a place on the mantlepiece. 

We all need breaks from time to time - children and adults alike. When you or your child are being creative, you use some other centres in your brain and you think in a different way. You can actually train your creative skills, so the more time you spend being creative, the more creative you will become. And that’s a win win situation. 

If you’ve developed a taste for it and you’re keen to get started on some cool creative projects, then just get going and have fun!

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