With the addition of our newest cotton/acrylic blend, Comfy, Knit Picks now offers five cruelty free options for vegan knitters starting at only $1.99. CotLin is a DK weight, Tanguis Cotton/linen blend available in twelve colors for only $2.49. Our Pima cotton/modal blend, Shine, is available in sport and worsted weights. Modal is a bio-based fiber made by spinning reconstituted cellulose from beech trees into fiber, and it gives the Pima cotton a lustrous quality akin to silk. Shine sport is available in twenty luscious colors like Blush and Hydrangea , and Shine worsted comes in seventeen different hues. Both lines start at only 2.49 a ball. Our fifth cruelty free yarn is our Crayon boucle; it’s 100 percent cotton, DK weight, and available in fourteen yummy colors making it the perfect yarn for kids’ projects or for drapey, soft summer knits.

On average our yarns are priced $4 to $7 lower than yarns with comparable fiber content sold by our competitors so they’re worth checking out.

By the way, months ago I was browsing you flickr page and noticed your pics of the Lincoln House hotel in London. Thanks for the tip, I was in London last fall and we stayed there with the boyfriend. That’s a really lovely hotel with a frendly staff. I’d recommend it to vegans/vegetarians (and other people as well) visiting London any time.

First of all, all sheep are not dipped in chemicals and the amount of methane they give off is about a tenth of what is emitted by humans.

Sheep live outside and evolution has made their fiber one of the best natural fibers of all time. Plus you get meat, cheese, milk with obviously provides benifits for humans that prefer to choose these proteins to eat.

Sheep are generally left outside for a year by themselves and eat natural products (grass, leaves,sticks). They are rounded up once or sometimes (in New Zealand) twice to be shorn.

Once shorn they repeat the cycle and the wool grows back (naturally) for many, many years. This is called Renewable Sustainable.

Other fibers you support:

Bamboo - Come on, do some research please. You make it sound like a natural product. It is not and is very similar to how Rayon is made (which is regenerated wood pulp). Bamboo yarn is absolutely loaded with chemical sabilizers, similar to Rayon and not environmental at all. Why not visit the chemical plant and show pictures on your website.

Same with Nylon, Polyester, Capilene, Polypropylene………Oil, oil and more oil…..If you are so proud of supporting this industry why not show pictures of Duponts Polyester plant in tidal estuary in Delaware……

Oil is non renewable (unless you consider using a water bottle once throwing it away, having a truck pick it up and take to a place to rip it up and then more transport to another chemical factory to melt it down back into a fiber and then be made into polarfleece……….Talk about a waste of energy!!!!!!!)……..True recylcing is using a ceramic cup, washing it and reusing it!!! Please…….get with program……

The oil products you promote also do not break down in a landfill - A synthetic jacket takes about 800 years and Nylon Carpet about 15,000 years!!

Do some homework please before you trash and pick on Wool………..Why not do some research, please……..You are quite ill informed…….

Guess who is one of the biggest contributors to PETA??? The Synthetic Fiber industry!!!!! HMMMMMMMMM, I wonder why…….

Why give all the Oil Fiber producers a free ride??? Look at the legacy they have left our children…And you blindly support them…………

Environmental alergies…….Synthetic fibers are the worst…..Look on the back of a Synthetic Carpet…..It has an indoor air pollution certificate (thanks to Calfornia - good job)………It tell you to air your house out for several days after installation……Why? Because of VOC’S - Volatile Organice Compounds……..They are bad, very bad to inhale, but are cheap because that is the secret to Synthetics - You can get a lot of fiber from a Barrel of Oil!!

So, you need to catch up…..The market place is changing and old cliches wont work anymore for people who want great products and will spend the time researching them.

By the way, in parting, Synthetic Fiber Product uses approx. 200 Million Barrels of Oil per Year………So, we can all make a huge difference by simply not even buy synthetic clothing…….You even make the point with the other fibers you promote…….We dont need to where Synthetic clothes at all………….So, it is easy to eliminate a great harm and environmental damage (see above about the biodigradebility of synthetics) by being real!!

So, wake up and do some meaningful work and do your Homework please!!