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| windypines |
Posted - Sep 15 2009 : 03:36:49 AM
I just wanted to say, that I got caught up with 2 years worth of wool! I finished carding it on Labor Day. So it is ready to spin. I do only have 2 sheep, but it was a job using a drum carder! This fall and winter I hope to get it spun up, and start knitting!
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| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Sep 18 2009 : 09:01:29 AM
Windy-that's a lot of work done. Congrats!
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| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Sep 18 2009 : 08:58:11 AM
Katmom- Once I went to the L.A. county fair,& there was a woman who took cat fur sheddings & spun them on a wheel into yarn. No kidding! Made a very soft yarn. I don't know how she got the excess fur,perhaps friends saved theirs when they groomed their cats. Made a very soft yarn.
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| LynnMarie |
Posted - Sep 18 2009 : 06:07:36 AM
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Originally posted by Cabinprincess
Don't turn your back Michele or that wool would be the new batting in the quilt I'm just getting ready to baste together.
Smiles, Melody June
Oh do tell me Melody, have you ever used wool batting in a quilt? I have lots of batting but I was afraid the wool would shrink too much.
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| Jennifer Mulkey |
Posted - Sep 18 2009 : 06:07:00 AM
I would love to learn to card, but having had cancer, I have lymphedema in my right arm and am kind of afraid of cutting my right hand or arm....so I'll leave that alone I guess.
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| windypines |
Posted - Sep 18 2009 : 04:25:15 AM
Waste not want not????!!!
Grace you sure come up with ideas!!
Melody, I have had that same thought! Got to remember to keep my door locked! :)
I am thinking of making myself a sweater, if I can find a neat pattern.
It is alot of work, going from sheep to the knitting needles. I do enjoy it or I wouldn't do it, That is for sure.
Michele |
| oldfashioned girl |
Posted - Sep 17 2009 : 3:34:47 PM
Grace, You are too funny! With the way some of the "cat mess yarns" sell, you never can tell what people may buy!
Monica
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| grace gerber |
Posted - Sep 17 2009 : 08:05:30 AM
I have spun dryer lint but not hairballs. Felted fiber balls for cat toys so many the cats would like it if you finished the hairballs into play toys - sick but who knows you might have found a new niche market.
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| katmom |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 09:33:42 AM
hahaha! Grace tooo funny!
I Luv the Glittered hanging Hairballs as garland! LOLOL & ROTFLMBO!!!
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| oldfashioned girl |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 08:16:41 AM
Michele, Congrats on getting the wool done!
Monica
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| grace gerber |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 07:54:25 AM
Grace I have for years spun cat fur for owners who love their purring family members. Dog and cat hair are warmer then wool and spins and looks like Angora Bunny Projects. I have also made mittens from my Great Pry Dogs and then are so warm that I can only wear them breifly even in the coldest of days. As for the hairballs maybe you can string them together and make holiday garland - just kidding you would have to add glitter to fit the holiday spirit.
Michele sounds like you have been busy and I am sure you will have hours of joy spinning your fibers. I think there is nothing more wonderful then sitting and spinning someone's fiber that you have cared for during the year - that is why I do what I do!!
Happy Spinning
Grace Gerber
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| Cabinprincess |
Posted - Sep 16 2009 : 03:59:51 AM
Don't turn your back Michele or that wool would be the new batting in the quilt I'm just getting ready to baste together. Oh LOOK out the window! Now where is the door to get out? LOL
Just kidding I would not take all your hard work away.
Smiles, Melody June
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| katmom |
Posted - Sep 15 2009 : 08:45:39 AM
ok, now I am jealous of the both of you, sheep, llama & alpaca wool....all I have are 2 himalyan & 1 siamese kitties and my siamses sheds like crazy.....the other two just hack up hairballs....hmmm, wonder if I can 'card' & spin the hairballs! LOLOL! just kidding. 
I think it is great that you have the ability to shear, card, spin & knit your critters fleece/wool.
Once you get your projects finished besure to post a pic for us to see.
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| farmallgrl |
Posted - Sep 15 2009 : 08:31:58 AM
I am also hoping to get some fiber spun this winter. Doesn't it feel good when you have accomplished something like that:) I wish I had some wool, I have llama fleece and alpaca. I am thinking of spinning enough this winter to make the sweater shaw in this issue of MJF:) Happy Spinning!!
Angela
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