Spinning your own yarn with hair from your sheepdog
Quote: “I made a sweater for my daughter-in-law after having yarn spun from her daughter’s Old English sheepdog and I’ve made her a hat and a few other things,” she said. “I think it is more of a challenge to work with different textures, but I enjoy a challenge, and she appreciates my efforts.”
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=260889&Category=8 Here's a book on the subject: 
Knitting With Dog Hair : Better A Sweater From A Dog You Know and Love Than From A Sheep You'll Never Meet (Paperback)
Kinda interesting! |
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| I wouldn't want to wear anything made of dog fur. LOL
I'm allergic to pretty much everything, so I couldn't if I wanted to. I can't even wear wool. I also would feel strange wearing bits of my dog. LOL |
| I ran into a women years ago at a county fair who was a spinner. She also raised cocker spanials. She made the most beautiful things out of cocker fur. It is processed just like sheep wool and is as clean and nice smelling as as yarn you would buy in the store. At that time I spoke to her about spinning Tasker's hair and she said it was absolutely "doable". I never followed up on it but I don't know why it wouldn't be like any other yarn made from fur; alpaca, llama, cashmere etc.... An odd thought because we aren't accustomed to the idea. |
| There was a guy at the Centennial who spins his OES' hair. He was wearing sheepdog socks with a kilt at the Top 20. He says you only use the soft hair from the undercoat and mix it with something else so that it's not so itchy.
Here's a pic of Sandy's socks:  |
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| LOL....If you ever get mad at a relative, and they have a dog allergey, you could give a dog sweater to them and not tell them what its made of....hmmmm, Oh Lisa, Twin of mine.........mmmmmuuuuhhhhaaaa |
| Once again, Darcy, you're terrible...but on my brain wave. I need to start being more honest on this forum...XOXOX |
| Stacy....there is "politically correct" and then there is honesty....I never go out of my way to hurt someones feelings, but, if it comes down to it...I firmly believe honesty is the way to go....lol.....and I appreciate people being honest to me...if I say or do something dorky, I like to know, so that it doesnt happen again..... |
| There used to be a store in Port Jefferson Long Island (NY) that made OES hair clothes. Years ago we wandered in, with Marshmallow in tow and the lady asked if she could brush her...right then and there. She asked us to send her brushed hair and that she would pay us for it. We thanksed her, took her card and quickly "filed" it in the round filing cabinet.
It was all a bit too strange... |
| Here's a book on the subject:
Knitting With Dog Hair : Better A Sweater From A Dog You Know and Love Than From A Sheep You'll Never Meet (Paperback)
Kinda interesting! |
Hmmmmmmmm, maybe my next dog sweater should be knit from dog yarn  |
| ........weirdos.....
jack smells enough without his hair being on my feet  |
| I love it!! Lol I actually had been asking around in past years to find out who spins hair with the hopes of spinning Lil Austin a OES sweater. Some of you may remember Austin was my little rescue Chihauhau and often went with his BIG brothers for walks. Thought people would chuckle if he had a OES hair made sweater as unlike his BIG brothers he trembled in the cold.
I'm a little zany so I'd definately wear something made with OES fur. Being the fashion plate that I am, perhaps start a new trend! Thanks Ron for that info..going to try to get that book. Marianne and the boys |
| There is someone who is on the OES-L list that spins OES fur into yarn. Years ago we had a sheepie...a neighbor friend who we met because of that sheepie had a sweater made from her sheepie fur. It was nice and soft and didnt smell of dog at all...You would have never guessed that it was made from her dog. Only problem she said was she couldnt wear it around the dog....he licked her too much when she was wearing it. |
| I just did a google search yesterday for someone who contracts spinning. I have a 55 gallon can filled to the brim with hair. I'm not sure I could spin but may have someone else do it. In this lady's website she mentions what all is done to the hair.......it is washed several times. Still I'm sure if the item got wet later it would smell like a wet dog. |
| Cruela DeVil will be very interested in this.... |
| You'd think all that washing would make it into one giant matt! |
| I have been spinning and weaving now for two or three years.
I just moved and somewhere there is a huge bag of rovings for me to spin. I only spin the hair that has been brushed out and cleaned. And to be very honest, it is way too time consuming for me to clean it and put it into the rovings. I do wait until I have about 80 lbs of hair and send it off to this company to clean and mix with another type of fiber. You need to mix it with either some type of wool or angora or something to keep it from being too itchy. They do this and then send it back and then I spin it and eithe knit or weave it. Now, I HAVE been toying with the idea of weaving some throw rugs from the cut hair from when they are shorn.... haven't done it yet, but still thinking about it! Ali |
I guess all the hair I comb out with dried grass, twigs & leaves in it would ad some nice coloring & texture to the yarn. 
Seriously, I started collecting a bunch of hair and when I announced to a couple of close friends that I was thinking about having it spun they were ready to put me on the Weirdo Freak train! |
| Sheeps wool will also stink when wet but it is treated with a certain chemical when washed to prevent it from stinking again. |
| If you have any wool/knitting shops nearby you can go there and MOST people will fall over themselves to help you guys! You can buy some soap to wash the wool in from them.
Heck, take a class in knitting! or drop spindle spinning!! You'll get hooked!! |
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