Cats and Kilts

[Carolina Kiltman]

Even short hair from animals can be spun-it might yeild less than close to the skin yarn, but it is spinnable. I spun short cat hair at a spinning conference last year as well as dog hair and even some New Zealand Opossum fur-very, very short staple,...a pain to spin, but spinnable all the same. Persian fur and others of that sort work well however and are almost as soft at Angora. They make nice warm sweaters, hats and scarves but a bit too fuzzy and girly for kilt hose.

What happened was I took a large bag of the undercoat the cats shed at the beginning of an Arkansas summer to a spinner in my college. She did manage to spin it into a beautiful pale golden soft yarn. I was delighted, but she said "not so quick" and tugged the two ends of the yarn, it immediately fell apart into just cat hair. My only attempt and experience with it. I do not know about all types of cats, we usually get ours from the shelter when needed.

[thistlelass]

What happened was I took a large bag of the undercoat the cats shed at the beginning of an Arkansas summer to a spinner in my college. She did manage to spin it into a beautiful pale golden soft yarn. I was delighted, but she said "not so quick" and tugged the two ends of the yarn, it immediately fell apart into just cat hair. My only attempt and experience with it. I do not know about all types of cats, we usually get ours from the shelter when needed.

Ah, yes, unfortunately short hair/fur/wool will fall apart if not carded with something else or spun wet and worsted (tightly spun)-so I see what you mean. The short furs I spun were carded with another fiber, although the "Possum" was just spun into wool as an add in fiber. It is my opinion that one should avail themselves of kittehs from shelters when needed. That's the right thing to do-and they do have the sweetest ones.

[Mr. bone]

Jett, (pictured above left) loves the UK workmans. All cat fans must go to www.icanhascheezeburger.com

[sydnie7]

Jett, (pictured above left) loves the UK workmans. All cat fans must go to www.icanhascheezeburger.com

Link not working. . . maybe off by one letter?

[Mr. bone]

Ah the ol' hunt and peck has failed me again.

www.icanhascheezburger.com

[Mr. Kilt]

Ah the ol' hunt and peck has failed me again.

www.icanhascheezburger.com

Thanks for that link. Now my entire long weekend will be wasted sitting in front of the computer, giggling my face off while our two cats look at me funny.

[Carolina Kiltman]

Ah the ol' hunt and peck has failed me again.

www.icanhascheezburger.com

With my arthritic fingers, I do that kind of stuff all the time. I also correct spelling without thinking about it (sometimes). A good idea is to highlight, copy and paste urls.