Our story begins with the announcement of Valerie's pregnancy. She and her mom, Carol, went to a national arts & crafts chain to pick out yarn and a pattern for a baby blanket. They bought yarn marketed and sold as baby yarn. Carol eagerly cast on her stitches and started to make the blanket. Immediately, wisps of the yarn began to break off and float in the air. When Carol told Warren, her son about this, they began to wonder if the baby could some how breathe those little wisps in or ingest tufts of the stuff when the baby inevitably chews on the blanket. Warren suggested using 100% wool or cotton, preferably organic to make the blanket. We returned to the arts & crafts chain store. Nearly all the yarn, whether cotton or wool, was blended with at least one man-made fiber. We turned our search to the Internet and finally found Blue Sky Alpacas 100% organic cotton yarn. This search was not easy and it took a lot of dead-end tries going through the search results from a major search engine.

Well, after that long, arduous search, we finally were able to order the Blue Sky yarn over the Internet. Admittedly, we were ignorant of the charms of our local yarn stores at the time. Even so, we have found that not every store carries even one organic yarn line, let alone several. So, if we wanted a choice of yarn types that were organic, we weren't going to find it there.

One day as Warren was pondering all of this, an idea came about. You know that voice we all have in our heads, the one we wish we could ignore sometimes, well, it says "... why not start a knitting store that carries organic and earth-friendly yarn?" Instead of shying away from the idea, Warren embraced it and swiftly got Carol and Valerie swept up in this grand vision. This vision resulted in Organic Imaginings.

Read Organic Imaginings’ Vision, Mission, and Values to learn how this idea became the foundation of our company.

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