Really yummy yarns are a natural
from News Observer

Shawls made from soy, cable-stitched socks knitted from crab shells, gloves crafted of corn, a baby hat in bamboo, a creamy-soft scarf from real milk. The ingredients sound more at home in the grocery store than on knitting needles, but these are the makings of a new crop of yarns with fanciful names such as Twize, Maizy, Creamy and Corntastic. They build on a knitting trend toward novelty -- but with sustainable materials rather than the petroleum-based synthetics used in the fluttery "eyelash" yarns of a few years ago. "Knitters like natural fibers, but until recently that meant only silk, wool, linen or cotton, and cotton takes a lot of pesticides and fertilizers to grow," said Ellen Lewis, owner of the Crazy for Ewe stores in Leonardtown and La Plata in southern Maryland. "But in these new yarns, we're seeing how anything that contains protein can be isolated and made into fiber."

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