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Question for you spinners

Hi everyone: I had an idea the other day, but I will need some help from someone that spins. My older son (the one in the Marines) left his dog with me while he is gone. It is a beautiful dog- part chocolate lab and part spaniel. We're having a freak heat wave this week- it actually got up to 83F yesterday, and all of my animals are shedding like crazy. I was cleaning up the dog hair and I thought the colour would make a beautiful yarn. I remembered hearing that dog hair can be spun and I was wondering if any of you do this kind of spinning. Also, how much dog hair would I need to collect and how much would you charge me to spin it? He's a medium length hair dog, the hairs are about 2 inches long. I would like to make my son a beanie hat- I usually use 3 ounces of wool at a DK or worsted weight yarn for the regular beanie hats I've made in the past. Thanks for your help! Marie and the cats and dog

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bienchat
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I have tried this andn it does take alot. I was using hair from a Persian (sp?) cat. It seemed like almost a year that I coloceted before I did anything. I still didn't have very much and never weighted it but it will take sometime.

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Toni & Zach

An Australian woman who gave her father's cat a very short haircut during a heatwave to relieve the poor animal from the heat mixed all his fur with some wool and finished with enough yarn (one third cat fur) to make a hat for her dad (read all about it at:

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So quite a bit of fur is needed for anything substantial it wouldseem.

VP

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Vintage Purls

I spin a lot of dog hair. If it's mixed with something you can do without a lot. I did a scarf for an elderly lady out of just a few handfulls of her dogs hair plus some llama I had on hand. She loved it. I did a really lacy scarf for my mother out of cat hair. She saved for only about 3 months and the hair filled two small brown paper lunch bags. I did a scarf for myself out of Samoyed hair. I worked at a bording kennel at the time and just brushed the dog every morning for the 3 days he was there. Got plenty. Of course Sammy hair is fairly long and very very fluffy when worked up so that scarf was pretty lacy as well. You could contact Detta Juusola. I think her website is Dettasspindle.com She has written a book on spinning dog hair and does a lot of it. I'd be willing to spin it for you if it wasn't getting so close to spring. Once March hits we start having baby goats from our dairy goat herd and I'm starting plants for our veggie farm and don't have any extra time.

2" is a little short but you can mix it with a bit of some other fiber. Bev
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Bev

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