Teresa: "Red Wolf, I know you mean your malamute and husky have undercoats that make up into warm fuzzy hats, but I enjoy the image of your dogs knitting. Keeshonds are good for that too."
I suffer from grammatical amnesia in comments, sometimes it's amusing, mostly I sound like a dork.
The dogs aren't that great at knitting, but they are quite enthusiastic about undoing the knitting, running about with balls of yarn or snuffling through bags of fibre awaiting spinning.
Add Samoyeds and Chows to the list. Any of the Spitz group is a yarn waiting to happen.
Kristine: "He asked for a sheep for Christmas so he wouldn't ever run out of yarn!"
So who'll be washing, carding and spinning all this wool?
If you've already got a dog, you have a source of yarn running about the house shedding a natural resource. You can spin and knit dog fibre, particularly the undercoat of double coated breeds. My malamute and husky make warm, fuzzy hats and scarves.
There's a reason crafts like knitting, spinning and weaving are used as occupational therapy. It gets fingers and joints moving and the repetitive nature of the task keep your mind both locked on your project and free to roam where it will. Plus, you get a finished product crafted by your own hands.
It's nice to see the old crafts aren't dying out, and strangely surreal that something I've always done is suddenly hip.
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