Fluffy Yarn
The fuzzy end of the studio — faux fur, fuzzy nylon, cloud-soft Puffie and a halo-soft art yarn, for plushie bodies, hair, trims and anything that should beg to be touched.
Which fluffy yarn for which project?
"Fluffy" describes how a yarn feels rather than how it's made, so it covers a lot of ground. Here's what each of ours actually does:
| Yarn | Pile | Weight | Skein | Hook | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feather-Soft Faux Fur | Long, deep | #5 bulky | 100 g / 64 yds | 6.0 mm | Plushie bodies, teddy textures, manes and tails, collar trims, pom-poms |
| Candy Cloud | Fine halo | #2 fine | 40 g / 127 yds | 1.5–2.5 mm | Doll hair, fuzzy ears, hair clips, soft accents on small amigurumi |
| Puffie | Short, plush | #3 light | 50 g / 78 yds | 3.0–4.5 mm | Whole plushies with an airy, marshmallow hand — and the easiest to stitch into |
Bunny Whispers is our art-yarn take on fluff: a color-shifting halo at #5 bulky on a 6.0 mm hook, made for scarves and accessories rather than toys.
Two numbers worth knowing before you plan a project. Faux fur is short on yardage — 64 yards in a 100 g skein, because the fibre that makes the pile comes out of the length. Count yardage rather than skeins. Candy Cloud goes further than it looks: 127 yards in a 40 g skein, worked fine.
Natural halo, or constructed pile?
Search for fluffy yarn and you'll find two quite different things filed under one word. Natural halo yarns — mohair, alpaca, angora — bloom outward from fine animal fibres. They're lovely, and they're a different craft: delicate, usually expensive, and unforgiving if you need to pull work back. We don't make them.
Everything here is a constructed pile yarn: fibre anchored to a core rather than spun. That's what makes it washable, hard-wearing, non-shedding in the way brushed animal fibre sheds, and able to hold its loft through being squeezed. If you're making something that will be played with, washed, or handled daily, this is the family you want.
How to count stitches you can't see
This is the one thing that puts people off fluffy yarn, and it has a proper solution — better than the usual advice to place markers and be patient.
Run a length of contrasting thread alongside your work and never crochet it in. Held in one consistent position — between the loop on your hook and the working yarn — it leaves a small horizontal bar between every pair of stitches. The pile still hides your stitchwork, but now you have somewhere definite to insert your hook and something you can count. Because each bar sits between two stitches, one bar equals two stitches: checking a 40-stitch round means counting to 20.
It takes about a round to get the hang of, and it turns fur from guesswork into ordinary crochet.
Washing and shedding
Some loose pile works free during the first handling and first wash — that's cut fibre that was never anchored, and it settles. Steady shedding weeks later usually means the fabric was worked too loosely.
| Yarn | Care |
|---|---|
| Feather-Soft Faux Fur | Machine wash cold, max 30°C · dry flat in the shade |
| Candy Cloud | Hand wash cold · lay flat to dry |
| Puffie | Hand wash · dry flat in the shade |
Never tumble dry any of them — heat crushes pile and crushed pile doesn't come back. If a finished piece looks flat after washing, let it dry fully, then lift the fibres with a soft brush.
Every shade is dyed in small batches and hand-numbered, and fluffy yarn photographs lighter than it looks in hand — so a physical color card is worth the wait before committing to a large project.
Full guides: choosing fluffy yarn · the guide-yarn method for counting stitches.