And this is what it is
Serenknitty and Jose guessed right!
The fiber comes from Shiva, the Newfoundlander that lives downstairs (we live in a two - family house). Actually I was mostly just tolerating this very lazy dog, until I realized it had an asset. As Hanne (the dog's owner) had been saving the dog hair (which there is plenty of) for the birds to use in their nests, I took that and spun it into yarn. Actually there was a lot to that because first it had to be washed, which was an extremely unpleasant business. The carding was ok, but spinning it is much harder than sheeps' wool. It is so fluffy, that it will fly around the room.
Also I think I got quite a lot of the upper (hard, thick and prickly) hairs in the yarn, which is hard to avoid.
But all in all a pretty okay result.
The mittens are a birthday gift to Hanne.
The fiber comes from Shiva, the Newfoundlander that lives downstairs (we live in a two - family house). Actually I was mostly just tolerating this very lazy dog, until I realized it had an asset. As Hanne (the dog's owner) had been saving the dog hair (which there is plenty of) for the birds to use in their nests, I took that and spun it into yarn. Actually there was a lot to that because first it had to be washed, which was an extremely unpleasant business. The carding was ok, but spinning it is much harder than sheeps' wool. It is so fluffy, that it will fly around the room.
Also I think I got quite a lot of the upper (hard, thick and prickly) hairs in the yarn, which is hard to avoid.
But all in all a pretty okay result.
The mittens are a birthday gift to Hanne.
Labels: dog yarn handspinning mittens
Tingletangle wrote this at 10/14/2007 01:19:00 PM
7 Comments:
mooi geworden en een erg leuk cadeau! weet je ik had al zo'n idee dat het hondenhaar was. Had vroeger een buurvrouw met twee afghaanse windhonden en die leverden prachtige zachte "wol".
Prachtig!!!!!!!!
It sounds like an interesting project - and it must have been fun for the dog owner to get mittens form her own dog :-)
Too good! She will love the mittens, i am sure. They look great, which is nice after all the work you put into them.
Fantastisch, recycling in optima forma!
geweldig: ik heb twee harende honden! maar het zijn wel kleine harde haartjes. Ik vraag me af of dat te spinnen is.
Unless there is a lot of dirt or vegetable matter (sticks, leaves, grass etc) in the dog hair I would spin it right from the dog. You card it of course but it will spin much more easily and have similar drag to wool if you haven't washed it first. It may be smelly but the ease in spinning will make up for that.
I have Great Pyrenees and Newfoundland and spin their hair that way.
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