This first one is called Beadnik by Moda Dea (in Blue Beat). It is great novelty yarn because you don't have to deal with a bunch of fluffy, shreadding yarn that gets clogged if you have to frog it. I used the tan (Daddy-O Tan) color to make the tan "star" shawl in a previous post.
The next one is a green-ish yarn. It too is Moda Dea and is Bamboo Wool (in Bamboo). What makes it "green" is being 55% Rayon from Bamboo, 45% Wool. The part that is bamboo is friendlier to the environment.
This yarn is truly green in that it is made from factory scraps. It is made from the cuttings of saris in India. The cuttings are collected, shredded, and spun into yarn. It is VERY pretty and so unique! The company I got this yarn from is called Darn Good Yarn. The owner, Nicole, gives GREAT customer service with emails and personalized messages in your shipment! The great part is that the yarn is pretty inexpensive as far as "green" yarns go at $37 (which includes shipping!!) for 5-100g skeins of yarn!
This yarn is green in that it comes from alpacas. So very soft, I can't wait until I make this up into something for myself. If you read my earlier post about my mom's scarf, this is the yarn I mentioned that was pretty expensive ;) It is made by Misti Alpaca and is their hand paint Baby Suri Silk yarn in color 21.
This next yarn is not really "green" but I bought it in Pittsburgh when I got the above yarn. It is made by Suss Yarn Suss Crunch Skyline in Papaya. I think this yarn may be discontinued, because I got it on sale :)
This amazing purple-ish yarn is made from Camel Hair and is impossibly soft! Al, our pug, likes it too. Everytime he sees a ball of it, he tries to bite it. Weirdo. Anyway, the yarn is by Buton d'Or. It is their Ksar yarn. I can't read much more than that as it is in French ;)
Back to the "green" yarns, I bought a number of Vickie Howell yarns. This first one is from her LOVE line of yarns in Andi & Blaine. What makes this yarn "green" is that it is made of 70% bamboo and 30% silk. This is probably the softest of the three Vickie Howell yarns I'm trying.
The next of Vickie's yarns I bought is from her ROCK collection in Siouxsie. What makes this yarn "green" is that it is made from 40% soysilk, 30% fine wool and 30% hemp. It is probably the roughest of all the Vickie Howell yarns, but it is stilly lovely.
The last of Vickie's yarns I'm trying is from her CRAFT collection in Kelly (of course!). What makes this yarn "green" ist hat it is made from 35% milk fiber and 65% organic cotton. Yes, you read that right. MILK. This yarn is the midground of softness of these three.
Vickie has one other line of yarns is new and is called Vegas and is made of 29% soysilk, 67% wool, and 4% metallic thread. I didn't try this one yet, but I look forward to it!
The last new yarn I'm trying is again green, and is from Kollage Yarns. This particular kind is their Creamy line (in Purple Poem). This yarn is again made from milk, but more milk than the Vickie yarn. This yarn is made from 80% milk and 20% cotton! By far, this is the SOFTEST of the bunch!
Interested in how you make yarn from milk? I was too! Here is a good article.
I ordered these yarn from Yarn Market. There are a number of other kinds of "green: yarn that I'd like to try like banana fiber and corn fiber. I'm just so excited about these yarns!!
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