Yes It's Made from My Dog's Fur: An Owners Guide to Harvesting Your Pet's Coat and Spinning It into Yarn [Paperback]

Detta Juusola (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1996

Beautiful and practical wearables. A soft knitted afghan to keep you warm as you listen to the winter winds howl. A lacy crocheted doily, framed and safely under glass, as a lifelong memento of a special friend. This booklet will guide you when shedding season arrives and you wonder what can be done with all the fuzz that's beginning to come forth from your dog or cat. Includes information on grooming, harvesting, sorting, storing, spinning, and how to find someone to teach you or spin/knit/weave for you.

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About the Author

Detta Juusola has been spinning for 20 years and specializes in the custom spinning of dog hair. As owner of Detta's Spindle, a spinning, weaving and knitting supply company, she is regarded as an authority on spinning and spinning wheels.

Product Details

• Paperback: 10 pages
• Publisher: Woofspun Pub (April 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963973614
• ISBN-13: 978-0963973610
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,687,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title and too many advertisements., February 26, 2003

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"weirdoc" (Blacksburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yes It's Made from My Dog's Fur: An Owners Guide to Harvesting Your Pet's Coat and Spinning It into Yarn (Paperback)

"An Owners Guide to Harvesting Your Pets Coat and Spinning It into Yarn" is somewhat of a misleading title. Indeed, this pamphlet, for it cannot be called a book by any stretch of the imagination, will teach you how to harvest dog hair for spinning. But that's it. It DOES NOT teach you how to spin it into yarn. In fact, it tells you to go read a book on spinning! It does cover how to card the fur to prepare it for spinning, but the directions are far too vague to be understood by anyone who doesn't already know how to card fiber. Even the section entitled "Equipment Sources" is useless. Instead of listing suppliers of equipment, it lists other books that have sources listed in them. There's also an advertisement card stuck between the pages, and the back page is dedicated to other books you should buy on the subject. Let me save you $...Only use undercoat fibers that are 2 inches or longer and buy a different book. I just gave you every usefull tidbit in there.

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best doggone bargain on the market, November 13, 2001

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"jackiesdog" (Sonora, Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yes It's Made from My Dog's Fur: An Owners Guide to Harvesting Your Pet's Coat and Spinning It into Yarn (Paperback)

If you've ever thought about saving your dog's hair to eventually have something made out of it but didn't know where to start, or end, this booklet is for you. It's compact yet thorough, detailed and, best of all, easy to follow. Written by one of the nation's leading authorities on dog hair spinning, the simple, no-nonsense approach in this bargain-priced booklet is a refreshing alternative to big, expensive books.