Look, all nice and organized and tucked into its sterile environment, safe from the predatory, you know…

The above is mostly Pakucho Organic Cotton mixed in with some Lion Organic Cotton. I shouldn’t be such a brat about the colors. I actually love the color-grown shades. (But would it hurt those little bolls to blaze hot pink and lime green now and then? I think not.)

Oh, just when I was fussing about organic colors, check out this organic lace weight yarn, dyed using natural and “earth-friendly dyes.” (Take all this with a grain of salt, or,  pinch of alum. Eco-friendly is code for less toxic, not non-toxic.) From India and Africa, this yarn doesn’t qualify under “buy local,” but the web site says it’s fairly traded.

Looking at a few eco-minded web sites, I am reminded by the complexity of trying to live/knit clean. My organic cotton comes from Peru, so it’s even more well-traveled than I am. I have no idea how it was processed and spun. And now it’s sitting in a plastic bag in my house.

I think I’m going to go lie down.