Vegan - So DMC Instead of Wool

I'm not sure about whether cotton will stand up as well as wool but my instinct says it won't.

As to the coverage, you could use DMC Perl Cotton which comes in a heavier weight. And I believe crochet cotton would work well for some larger guage canvas. The colors are limited, but it does come in several sizes.

I'm sure someone here would know other companies that produce heavier cotton that's meant for knitting and crocheting.

Lucille

Why not use Acryllic? You could use an Appletons shade card to match it up, perhaps.

Pat P

Why don`t you make a rug from Cotton rags ? By the way why does a vegan have to give up a woolen rug, sheep don`t suffer from shearing and they scrash a lot of wool naturally off on poles ..??? mirjam

Cotton simply doesn't hold up well, particularly for rug use. My cotton sweaters deteriorate quickly in comparison to wool or blends. Acryllic uses precious minerals (if I remember correctly). Sheep aren't harmed, they are merely sheered, and mostly it's pretty humane.

Bulkier cottons are often sold by knitting shops. Try there.

I once hired a gal who was a *serious* vegan. I reminded her one day, after an insufferable conversation, that her musk perfume came from a species of deer, and that the gloves and boots she wore came off that cow she refused to eat. :~)

Dianne

Boy - we would have fun together in Ethics class. Sounds like a "debate" I had in Ethics 103 with a female with a serious leather and fur fashion fetish who would declare eating animals was "yucky". ;)

Cheryl

Well, now, as long as eating animals is only yucky if you have to do it and not if you're watching me do it, I don't see that we really have an ethical issue. *grin*

Elizabeth

Why? Most of the sheep which have been bred for wool are EXTREMELY uncomfortable if they are not sheared annually, therefore leaving them alone could count as cruelty to animals.

If you feel you must give up wool, try acrylic knitting yarn. I use that for grandbaby sweaters (dd insists on it), and that stuff, even though I am careful to buy the very soft kinds, actually wears like iron. Several sweaters I made for the oldest are now being worn by child #3, and they are worn for playing in, as well as for best. If you have friends who knit with acrylics, you might beg a few scraps to test.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

I can vouch for that! I used to knit sweaters for all the family, and the acryllic ones never wore out or lost any colour!

School sweaters for 6 grandsons are enough to test ANYTHING! In fact I still have a couple that I knitted for myself about 15 years ago - as good as new! The rest were thrown out because I was just sick of the sight of them! Pity you`re not in the UK - I still have CONES of it up in my hobbyroom in the loft! I`ve given piles of Acryllic, Shetland Wool and Mohair to Charity shops, too.

Pat P

Pat P

Fashion is quirky - about 25 years ago Maureen used to do a lot of knitting with Lopi wool, the sort that you you knit on one circular needle. Last month she decided to have another go with Lopi but it seems to be almost unobtainable because, so the shop tells her, it is "not in fashion"

My younger daughter is vegetarian, but not vegan. She only wears shoes out of man-made materials, and purses as well.

She will eat shrimp, but not fish. She says shrimp are basically insects of the sea anyway. I think it's more because she loves shrimp, and won't give it up.

I respect her commitment, but I can't do it -- so much of the substitutes for meat are soy based, and I'm allergic to soy, among so many other things.

And there you have two good reasons why I don't go vegetarian -- I'm allergic to soy, and you'll pry my bacon out of my cold dead hands!

If I remember (correctly) something I saw on "Discovery", shrimp are declining in numbers and are the basic foodstuffs of whales and other sea creatures. Ya just can't win for loosin'.

Dianne

I will joke with certain friends that the average vegetarian has never meet a chicken.......

Cheryl

The average vegetarian has never fed a chicken and gotten pecked by the $^%$^%$##!! thing?

I loooove chicken. Call it revenge. :)

Oh my yes -- I could NEVER give up bacon....

Comedian Louie Anderson used to say, in his standup routine, "I had my cholesterol checked..... they found bacon"

My thoughts exactly

Sounds like DS - I discovered he take bacon bits (like you buy for salad), makes a mound out of them and nukes it and makes a patty for his egg sandwich. I am considering not buying the bits anymore.

Cheryl

Hey, what can I say..... LOL