tell me what is the deal with organic yarns?

[chaos_pie]

Why are you interested in organic? What are the concerns that buying organic yarn are addressing for you?

Just interested...

[CraftyMommaOf2]

Treatment of the sheep is a biggie and knowing that the yarn hasn't been thru tons of chemicals. Is that what you meant? :LOL

[chaos_pie]

partly.....but how much chemicals do regular yarns endure? and I assumed because it was organic it meant the sheep lived on an organic diet...not that it implied any post-shearing processing or treatment of the sheep.

So maybe what I am looking for is....what does organic yarn really mean?

[CraftyMommaOf2]

This is a great explaination:

http://www.treliskeorganic.com/faq.html

:love

[chaos_pie]

:bigups:

Thanks! That was helpful and the type of information I was looking for!

[pamelamama]

so what do you think Beth?

Time to make the boys some organic hand-knit spiderman underpants??

:brow