Animal Free Yarns

After my self-imposed year-long yarn diet ended in July, I decided to challenge myself to another duel with my will-power: to purchase only vegan yarn. For me that means:

• No silk
• No wool
• No alpaca
• No cashmere
• No angora

You get the picture, yes?


So I spend a lot of time looking at yarn, but thanks to my challenge I'm not blindly purchasing all the "ooo shiny" that I see. When I started this new experiment I decided to create some standards for myself so I wouldn't buy a bunch of crap just because is was animal free My criteria includes:

• Natural fiber content (acrylic is ok, I just don't want a 100% acrylic sock yarn)
• If I must buy acrylic, make it microfiber.
• A palette that span the seasons (if it's only offered in summery pastels I'm not that interested)
• A variety of dye techniques (solid, semi-solid, stripes)

 Here are some yarns I'd like to try:

• Maizy
• Katia Mississippi 3
• Cascade Fixation
• Berroco Comfort

We interrupt this draft to admit defeat. I just don't think I can go animal free when it comes to yarn. Animal fibers just plain block better. Yes, yes, I know acrylic and other fibers can block...but ugh! It requires so much work. (*shudder*)

Maybe I should just try to go non-animal with 90% of my purchases...