Dog hair yarn

I have been saving up my dogs undercoat as she sheds because it is incredible soft and long. I thought it would be great to spin up and make something for everyone in the family. She is a cute dog, very hairy. But she doesn't shed and leave hair everywhere she goes. We have to pull out the undercoat as it gets loose. Here is willow:

She is so cute!

So under all that soft silky outer coat is a downy uber-soft undercoat. It looks like this:

I put some of the willow hair next to alpaca and yak to compare as both of those fibres are soft as well. This is what it looks like:

The alpaca on the top is the longest, then willows hair and then the yak down which is quite short in this instance. 

Next to the Dorset x wool from my neighbour it looks like this:

I took a bunch of the dog hair and carded it in with some wool so I could spin it up and see what it felt like and how it knitted up. I carded some with black welsh:

With merino:

And a bit of pure dog.

It is all good.  Now that I like what I see and feel I feel pretty good about going about spinning the dog hair into some of my work. She is a big dog, so I have collected a lot over the past couple of years. I will show you what I do with it!!