Looks like wool made the list of “really bad things.”  I’m not sure I would rank it as high as the other items on the list.  Just take a look at the The Big List of Things That Suck.  I mean, who would compare wool to plastic, high fructose corn syrup, and animal testing?  but [...]

Got two hanks of Ever Green Yarn from One Planet Yarn and Fiber.   The color was exactly as I had hoped, and I love how it matches my huge mound of ornamental grass that is showing its beautiful fall colors. 

This yarn is organic merino fingering weight dyed with wood creosote and a “hint of cochineal.”  So I [...]

I’ve been noodling on some info I got from the GreenKnitter.  Organic certification of fiber only covers the way that the fiber was grown, not how it was processed.  The USDA established current organic certification, so only the agricultural side of things are covered.  Several groups are working on establishing certification requirements for spinning and [...]

Finished these two cowls over the past few months which came out a little bigger than I wanted, but all in all was happy with the result.  The first cowl I completed was made from handspun alpaca.  I had never knitted with alpaca and was surprised at how soft it was even with all these [...]

I can’t believe I haven’t made the time to write about one of my  favorite yarns, O-Wool Balance by Vermont  Organic Fiber Company.  I think it’s partly because I didn’t have the best pictures of this sweater I made for my son last Christmas.  As well as the fact that I have just been knit, knit, knitting [...]