Kendall Crolius

Knitting with Dog Hair (eBook, ePUB)

Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You'll Never Meet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shed happens! Don't clog up your vacuum cleanerturn that fuzz into fabulous fashions with this complete guide. Recycle Rover into treasured mementos of your beloved pet.

No, it's not a joke! Knitting with Dog Hair became a cult sensation when first published in the 1990s. Back by popular demand, this expanded edition by author and spinner Kendall Crolius reveals how dog knitting became a movement and helped launch cottage industries of artisans spinning pet hair. It includes an expanded guide of dog breeds, including the trendy designer dogs that have become all the rage. This twenty-first-century edition, a perfect gift book for all occasions, provides tip-filled, easy-to-use advice on:

How to evaluate a breed based on its potential for knitting

• How to harvest, clean, and spin your pooch's fuzzand why you don't necessarily need a long-haired breed to create yarn from your dog
• How to modify your favorite patterns to accommodate pet-spun yarn
• How to find experienced pet-hair spinners

Whether it's mittens from your Malamute, a cap from your Collie, or an afghan from your Afghan, this extensive catalogue raisonne of the various breeds (Tom Ferrell, New York Times Book Review) is the definitive guide to putting on the dog.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324091158
• Artikelnr.: 69801053

Autorenporträt

Kendall Crolius, a Princeton graduate, has been spinning yarn from her pets' hair and knitting clothes with it for most of her life. She lives in Chautauqua, New York.