When I used to work @ the craft store, there was this pattern book for cat-themed crafts, and one involved saving your cat's fur (from when you combed it) and it showed you how to spin the fur into thread to later knit into a sweater for yourself. Seriously. Am I the only one who's a bit bothered by this? Sounds like something my senile aunt would do.... yuk.
yeah, thats kinda yucky. But.... I recently found under my bed a "dust-kitty" the size of my actual cat. All cat hair, too... so I can understand the need to feel like there should be something you can do with all that hair!
Yeah I know quite a few spinners who use their pets fur. It's no different than using wool from sheep or fur from alpacas. I don't see anything wrong with it. There is a really neat site online where a lady started raising certain dogs becuase they had the softest fur. She never shaved them, but waited till the hair fell off in clumps and then she would spin it. She makes some amazing things with it.
since most animal allergic people I know, are allergic to cats.... that must be a nice sweater to wear in crowded places.... AHHHHHHH *sneeeezzzzzeee* *ggggg* other then that I don't see anything wrong with that either... I mean what's the difference between a sheep and a cat? I was always joking about making a sweaterout of my dogs hair, since he lost so much in spring .
yarn made from alpacas, sheep and goats are obviously treated ... one of the reasons is so that it won't rot, and also you won't get that funky animal smell. how different is it? um, it's a cat? lol, I dunno. But just threading straight cat hair into a sweater is odd...
Haha, this post reminds me of my dog. My family dog, Jay, sheds little clumps of fur, so my mum and I began collecting it. One night we assembled a nice little rope and started waving around Jay. I guess he got a bit jelous, that we had his fur. He grabbed it from my hands and ran off. Mum and I found him chewing it in the backyard.
Two of my kitties are part himalian (sp?). They have really soft pretty hair that looks like mohair. However my dog usually smells, dispite being bathed frequently and he usually has raspberry bushes and such in his fur. Then I have another kitty that has obsessive, compulsive disorder and has pulled out a lot of her hair. Although she eats it so I wouldn't want to try to collect it. Cat hair isn't much different than rabbit hair.
