Superwash Wool

I just finished my fourth Vogue Knitting Live.  It is interesting to me how much better some of the Vendors have become as they have honed their skills on camera on Zoom.  I have learned a lot.  But I have one huge burning question that has emerged from my shopping:  How do I feel about superwash wool.  The consensus of opinion seems to be that the process that gets the wool to this place is NOT ecologically friendly.  But at the same time the superwash wool takes dye in a much more vibrant way.  Thus many of the independent dyers use it to produce the wool that has such spectacular color.
 
I took a class in either June or July in which this question came up.  And one of the students asked if she was trying to avoid superwash where might she get colors that were as vibrant.  And the teacher suggested Sweet Georgia.  I will look at their yarn.

So here is a URL for a post about the superwash system:

http://consciouslycrochet.com/truth-superwash-wool/

The Sharon Show by Casapinka

So Dar and I have chatted many times about how we are not interested in taking part in a Mystery Knit Along!  She was very disappointed one time in what she made and I love the dreaming of the project almost more than I like knitting it....Why would I succumb to missing the dreaming and just executing the project?

There has been a lot of publicity about Casapinka's newest project and I do tend to like Casapinka's designs!  And then Stevenbe sent an e-mail showing kits that he and his shop had put together for this project and one of the color ways grabbed me.  So here I am starting The Sharon Show today with the first clue.

The colors are

The Blue is Stevenbe Blackwattle in color Lone Light:

The Purple is Madeline Tosh Light color Moxie




The background color which is very light is:

I'll have to look to see if I kept the labels or if the colors are on my order history at StephenB.  I finished the shawl last week and blocked it....and I LOVE IT!  I had the perfect sweater to wear it with among my winter clothes: