I will readily admit that I often wear my cat’s hair, but it’s certainly not on purpose. It’s just that my cat has the uncanny ability to shed her weight in fur wherever he lays down for more than five minutes, and then it eventually finds it’s way to my ass and back. Now at no point while scraping layers of hair off of me do I ever stop and say, “You know, why don’t I put this to use and just KNIT IT INTO CLOTHES?”. No, I have not reached that level of craziness yet, but it seems someone out there has, and they’ve decided to share it with everyone in the form of a how-to book. Yes, a how-to book about knitting your dog’s hair into clothes.

Clothes that you WEAR.

The authors explore all aspects of knitting with dog (and cat) hair from “harvesting” fur, to preparing it for spinning, to spinning and finishing the yarn, to caring for pet-hair items once they’ve been completed. 

By caring for them, do you mean burying them in a shallow grave in the backyard, after the first time of making the mistake of telling someone you were wearing a shirt made out of dog hair? Immediately becoming that one person in your social group that will be referred to as “The woman that wears dog hair”. I think I’ll pass. Other people though, have went through with the deed, apparently:

in this day and age, living in the states, we can be so wasteful. It was refreshing to find a book about recycling, that has nothing to do with paper and plastic. Why didn’t anyone think of this before? I’m just really impressed and happy that these books are actually out there. It is important for use to save our resources, before it’s too late!

But why stop with dog hair? If we can make use of something that disgusting, why not go further to help the planet?  Look for my step by step guide soon on how to make a sturdy tampon out of navel lint and old toenails.