Wool allergy? Consider these yarns, instead!

Tricia Browne

I was trying to log in with my old account : inkdrops@northrock.bm but kept saying password was invalid. I asked to change it but never got the email, so I started a new account. I hope I am not going to have to do this every time I log in !!!

Thanks
Tricia Thompson-Browne
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MEL

It would be nice when you offer kits that use yarns with wool to have a non wool option. Thank you.

Pam McCamant

I’ve made many chemo caps, scarves, and blankets with your non wool yarns. Unfortunately I learned the hard way about my continued sensitivity to wool. Having my hands and forearms break out in hives and being red and itchy was no fun. I’ve made many beautiful caps and scraves in Heartland..I love the different colors. I just finished weaving in tails in a two color striped blanket for the homeless in Homespun.
I prefer the soft yarns for the chemo cap projects.

Betty Pelkey

Please send me knitting patterns and kits. I do not crochet.

Kathleen VanPaasschen

I agree with Mel: non-wool/other animal fiber options with kits and patterns would help those of us allergic. A non-wool option for sock yarn would also be appreciated.

Theresa Slivinski

I am allergic to work also but found out because we owned sheep that it was the processed wool that was the problem. The fleece did not make me itch and my hands were wonderfully soft after handling the fleece

Angela Tremain

I’ll enter another vote for non-wool options when wool-containing kits are offered. I am vegan and choose not to use animal-based fibers.

Donna Gockley

I don’t have a true wool allergy, but a skin problem that leaves my skin very itchy when I wear wool. It’s great to have other options.

Michelle Wohlgemuth

Thank you for the information, it’s good to have these options. As I just found out I am allergic to wool. I just used wool for the first time and the reaction was not pleasant.
Have a great day.

Margaret Balch

I find that I can only use 100% cottom for my projects in crotchet as I break out with any other type.
I love to look at the other fibres as they have such beautiful colors but know my hands would be bleeding
if I tried them. I have learned to live with what I can do.

Sandy Hecklinski

Awesome! I only use acrylic or acrylic blends. I’ve learned the hard way that wool is not an option. Plus, I crochet for charity, and they won’t take anything made with wool in in. Thanks!

Corrine Brzys

Please offer non-wool options in your kits. That would be fantastic!

susan holen

I agree with Mel…would be wonderful if kits came with non-wool alternatives. I cannot work with or wear wool, although I grew up wearing it! Many, many years ago. Alternative yarn suggestions in your patterns would also be great.

As an aside…many places do not accept chemo caps made with wool because of patient sensitivities. I have made a number of hats many of which are designed by Robin Celli with your non-wool yarns, and they have all worked out beautifully.

Jan Burg

I’ve been hoping for a listing like this! So many of the nice blending yarns, like Scarfie, I’d like to use, but can’t use wool. How about putting a permanent entry on the Lionbrand website that lists alternatives? I’d like to be able to refer to that when I’m planning a project, and I could continue to use some of the older patterns that I use over and over..

Shelley Weber

I would very much like to see more bamboo yarns being offered as an alternative. I have found some lovely ones in the last year but you have almost none. I myself love wool yarn but know there are many people who can’t use it and bamboo yarn is a wonderful replacement yearn. yet you don’t have any at all in sock yarn. And only one in a cotton version.

Chris Hybicki

I use Homespun for many of my prayer shawls and other projects.
I wish you would offer the patterns that you use in your kits, can’t always afford the cost & purchase yarn on sale at
local retailer.