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All Things EFFY is an online store for Everything you need for Rug Tufting!

01/10/2026

✨ 20% OFF for one week only! ✨

Use code TUFT20 for 20% off regular retail prices across all All Things EFFY shops 💜

One order per customer, so make it count 👀

Code: TUFT20
Valid until October 9, 2026

Shop your tufting favourites while the code is live 🧶✨

24/09/2026

A little throwback to one of my tufting workshops in 2021 — using our 450W rug shears to even out the surface of a rug. ✂️🧶

These shears are still incredibly useful for medium-sized rugs when you want to quickly level and even out the surface after tufting.

The current 2026 version now also comes with a carving/shearing guide that attaches to the machine, so you don’t have to completely eyeball how much you’re taking off. It also helps prevent accidentally tilting the machine and gouging into your rug.

I’ll tag the product from our U.S. shop in this reel, but the shears are available from all three EFFY shops:

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And now for a little bit of EFFY history, if you feel like reading on. 🐑

This particular rug was made from the most beautiful, thick 100% Merino wool. It was unbelievably soft, and looking back at this footage brings back a part of EFFY’s history that I think a lot of you probably don’t know.

When I first started EFFY, all of our rug wool was sourced here in New Zealand. In the very early days, I was personally hand-dyeing it in 2 kg batches. As we grew, the dyeing was done in batches by either myself or our employee.

We also had a beautiful 100% Romney 837/3 Tex wool. The wool was grown locally, spun here in New Zealand, and then hand-dyed in batches by us.

But once EFFY grew and I started selling rug wool in much larger quantities, I eventually had to move the spinning and dyeing overseas.

And I found that genuinely a little heartbreaking.

New Zealand has nearly 23 million sheep and only around 5.3 million people — so yes, we have more than four sheep for every person living here. 🐑🐑🐑🐑👤

We’re a country known around the world for wool, yet as a small business it became increasingly difficult to have wool spun, dyed and commercially produced here at the volumes and price points we needed.

And today, we’ve actually had to discontinue our rug wool entirely because the price per cone had reached a point that simply wasn’t affordable for much of ou

23/09/2026

Turning workshop leftovers into tiny little pixels 🧶✨

I’ve been working on this Tunisian entrelac blanket using small amounts of EFFY Cotton Blend Yarn left over from teaching workshops. They’re not really enough for another full rug, but they’re absolutely perfect for these little squares — and I love that I can use up all the random colours instead of letting them sit around.

It almost looks like a little pixelated rug 💜

Each square is 4 stitches × 4 stitches, worked in Tunisian simple stitch, using a 6 mm / J Clover Amour crochet hook.

I’d never made Tunisian entrelac before, so I followed this tutorial by Maria’s Blue Crayon to get started:
https://youtu.be/SMIJzISWO6E?si=apcYGqqKpUMhXSM8

Such a satisfying little scrap-yarn project — and a very good excuse to keep adding more colours. 😍

26/08/2026

Running All Things EFFY in Aug 2022!

Back then I didnt have any regional shops. It was just me, a garage, a lot of stock, workshops, and markets!

Aug 2026: EFFY has 3 regional shops in the USA, Canada ans Australia. Now much of my time is behind a computer making sure you are all happy with your orders, ensuring restocks are happening quickly enough, that shipping is running smoothly, and of course ☠️ taxes & sales tax across 4 countries is being submitted. Knowing how 4 countries work makes my head spin at times.

I love the wild ride both my persistence and your continued support has allowed me. I will continue to show for the tufting community with quality diverse supplies as long as humanly possible 💜

I have big plans for the backend of 2026 💥

22/08/2026

can’t make a GIANT rug without a GIANT supply of yarn 😅
(i’ve learnt that the hard way😵‍💫)

I’ve been using the EFFY cotton blend yarn in shades Dark Pink and Burgundy from All Things EFFY!

Carolyn, who runs EFFY has been an absolute saint in helping me organise this huge bulk order of yarn, from colour picking to calculating how much yarn I’ll need and then extremely fast shipping- thank you Carolyn!!

All my tools are also from EFFY so if you want to shop the best in the game, I couldn’t recommend it enough!
Also use: GORUGGIRLGO for a discount 🫶🏼

11/07/2026

📢ACRYLIC RUG YARN PROMO

Our new acrylic rug yarn has landed in 🇨🇦🇦🇺

Right now save 10% and buy 6 or more to get an additional bulk discounts! See product page for more details!

04/07/2026

✨ Have you ever considered what else you can make with EFFY Rug Yarn? 🧶

I'm about three-quarters of the way through making this gorgeous textured rug by designer . I purchased the pattern on Etsy and have been following it using EFFY 100% Rug Wool—and I'm absolutely loving how it's turning out! 😍

For anyone wondering, I'm using a 4 mm crochet hook, although in hindsight I think a 4.5 mm or even a 5 mm hook would have been a better choice. It would have given the stitches a little more room and made the finished piece slightly easier to block.

Sadly, our Rug Wool isn't something we're stocking at the moment, although we're hopeful we'll be able to bring it back one day. ❤️ The good news is that our Acrylic Rug Yarn comes in the exact same colours and has a very similar structure and feel, so it would be a fantastic substitute if you'd like to make one yourself.

For this project, I'm using four colours:
💛 Lemon
🌼 Yellow
✨ Stitchbird Yellow
🟡 Mustard

We actually still have some of these Rug Wool colours left because they're some of our less popular shades, so if you'd prefer the wool version, you might still be able to snag a few cones before they're gone. Otherwise, you'll find these exact colours in our Acrylic Rug Yarn range too!

Now I need a little advice...

This piece is 100% wool, so it should be able to be blocked, but it's HUGE! 😅 Has anyone here blocked something this large before? What did you use to pin it out? A standard blocking board definitely isn't going to cut it!

I've only been crocheting for about a year, so I'm still learning, and I'd really appreciate any tips or tricks you have. ❤️

19/06/2026

🇦🇺 EOFY SALE IS HERE! 🇦🇺

We're celebrating the End of Financial Year with special savings across selected products in our Australian store!

✨ 20% OFF selected soft materials including yarns, tufting cloth, backing fabrics, and more
✨ Special discounts on selected tufting machines, carving tools, and equipment
✨ Available to all customers shopping through our Australian store

The sale is live NOW and runs until June 30th.

⚠️ Please note: Our latest restock has been slightly delayed. It was originally expected around June 20th but is now estimated to arrive around June 26th. As a result, many products currently on the website will be available as pre-orders and will ship once stock arrives.

🇳🇿 Kiwis, you're welcome too! New Zealand customers can shop through our Australian store and take advantage of these EOFY discounts. International shipping rates will apply.

Whether you're topping up your supplies or upgrading your setup, now is a great time to save.

🛒 Shop now at allthingseffy.au

Sale ends June 30th at 11:59 PM AEST.

13/05/2026

✨ MAY SALE IS HERE ✨

Whether you’re starting your very first rug or stocking up your studio, EFFY has everything you need in one place 💖

🧶 Tufting machines
🌈 Yarn
✂️ Carving tools
🪡 Cloth & backing
📦 Supplies shipped worldwide

Thank you so much for supporting our small business — every order genuinely means the world to us 🥹

Shop the May Sale now 💕

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06/05/2026

Okay but… can we take a second to appreciate the NEW purple AK-Vs !! ✨

A huge thank you to everyone who gave their input over the last couple of months while we worked on choosing colours that not only felt truly EFFY, but that our customers would genuinely love too.

We used two giveaways to help guide the process and see which colours people connected with the most, and honestly, getting everybody’s feedback made the whole thing so much fun 🩷

And now… if you order an AK-V factory direct, you’ll receive our new branded purple AK-V 💜✨

All new AK-V stock arriving to our shops in late May / early June will also now be in the new purple colourway, and I genuinely could not be more excited about it because it feels SO perfectly EFFY.

The AK-V has become our favourite tufting machine for both workshops and everyday tufting because it’s lightweight, durable, beginner-friendly, easy to maintain, and incredibly smooth and quiet to use.

And now, with the new purple colourway, it finally feels completely and unmistakably EFFY 💜✨

I really hope you all love the new colours as much as I do 🩷

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