On Stores and My Pain

At three o'clock this morning, when I couldn't sleep after feeding the baby, I went onto Ravelry and started reading forums about green knitting.  Sigh.  Turns out I'm not nearly serious enough about this if I want to find the niche market that's out there.  What I should really be using is local, small scale, eco-friendly products that I can really track.  Carbon footprints, sheep raising practices, chemical dips, processing, dyeing, chemical output, shipping distance.  Sigh.  So, I suppose I should do this right.  These things are much more expensive.  And I won't be buying anything real "local" here in Hawaii.  I know there are actually a few sheep living north shore at the UH Ag project, but I doubt they are producing eco-friendly knitable wools just yet.  What I will need to do is make a business plan, work out how much yarn I'm going to need to sustain myself on a basic level for a year, determine project inputs (time, yarn, needles, notions etc.), make a budget and work through what this will really take.  As I said, sigh.  In the meantime I'm going to keep working with my commercially produced "organic" yarns and keep the thing alive.  I'll take myself down to 2-3 projects a month and spend the rest of the time on the business plan.  Oh yeah, better figure in how much time I need in a week.  I'd like to break even, please God, that's all I'm asking for.  For now.  

In other news, I frogged back to my "split" on the stocking and starting working in the round again.  I've just got to finish the thing.   There is that other one in blue, white and grey too . . .