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Posted by Trish Brown on June 29, 2009, 6:17 pm
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
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> On 6/29/09 10:27 AM, in article 7as15uF206haoU1@mid.individual.net, "Polly
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>> Hello. The rctq group is quiet this morning so I thought I'd drop in here
>> to see what was going on.
>> Fred wrote, in part > Almost time for his Pupmitzvah. Picking out a suitable
>> present will be easy sayeth my
>> DW, just get *her half of Casey* a nice big beef bone and get *my half of
>> Casey* some new chew toys, like a stair case, back door, house coat, shower
>> cap, a few fence posts or some new cedar trees in the yard to replace the
>> shredded ones.
>> For a special treat, may I recommend a nice collection of Southern Living
>> Cookbooks? Our Yorkie puppy chewed his way through 20 volumes and
>> apparently found them very well-seasoned. The 1982 edition was a special
>> favorite. Polly
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> My son did some serious teething on favorite book... I wonder if for his
> 18th in a year, I can find a copy of it....
>
> C
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Grumble. DD teethed on our coffee table! It was mahogany with a smoked
glass insert and was the first item of furniture she learned to pull
herself up on. I'd left her in the lounge room watching the Wiggles
while I made the beds and by the time I got back, she'd walked around
the circumference of the table and bitten tiny chunks out of the entire
edge. The dear little tot must've gone like the clappers because I was
only away for a short while. She certainly wrecked the table! Sigh.
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Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Posted by Fred on July 1, 2009, 4:57 am
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> Hello. The rctq group is quiet this morning so I thought I'd drop in here
> to see what was going on.
> Fred wrote, in part > Almost time for his Pupmitzvah. Picking out a
> suitable present will be easy sayeth my
> DW, just get *her half of Casey* a nice big beef bone and get *my half of
> Casey* some new chew toys, like a stair case, back door, house coat,
> shower cap, a few fence posts or some new cedar trees in the yard to
> replace the
> shredded ones.
> For a special treat, may I recommend a nice collection of Southern
> Living Cookbooks? Our Yorkie puppy chewed his way through 20 volumes and
> apparently found them very well-seasoned. The 1982 edition was a special
> favorite. Polly
Actually Casey really loves a Hungarian Goulash whipped up by a Romanian
cook who brings him a bucket full every couple of days. Maybe I could serve
it warmed up a bit for a treat. I can't stand the stuff and shovelling (read
scraping) the recycled stuff out of the lawn is shall I say - challenging!
Fred
http://www.stitchaway.com
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
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Posted by Tia Mary on June 29, 2009, 10:44 am
Fred wrote:
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> In the past we have spun Malamute fur into yarn and knitted gloves but has
> anyone ever heard of using Malamute fur in a comforter versus duck down? One
> would have a fur tick versus a feather tick. Hey I'm serious here!!!
> ....<snipped>....
> Fred
> http://www.stitchaway.com
> If nothing changes, nothing changes.
> Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
HMMMMM -- if you could use just the undercoat, it would probably
work just fine. I would imagine you would need to wash the living
daylights out of it before using it though. You don't want the
comforter to smell like wet dog!!
I'm saving up Cassie (Baby Cat) fur and will send it off to have it
made into yarn. The web site I have for this says they treat the fur
with some special stuff so that it doesn't smell like wet animal when
the finished item is laundered or cleaned. Not sure what I will make --
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probably just a scarf. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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Posted by Fred on July 1, 2009, 12:04 am
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> Fred wrote:
>> ....<snipped>....
>> In the past we have spun Malamute fur into yarn and knitted gloves but
>> has anyone ever heard of using Malamute fur in a comforter versus duck
>> down? One would have a fur tick versus a feather tick. Hey I'm serious
>> here!!!
>> ....<snipped>....
>> Fred
>> http://www.stitchaway.com
>> If nothing changes, nothing changes.
>> Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
> HMMMMM -- if you could use just the undercoat, it would probably work
> just fine. I would imagine you would need to wash the living daylights
> out of it before using it though. You don't want the comforter to smell
> like wet dog!!
> I'm saving up Cassie (Baby Cat) fur and will send it off to have it
> made into yarn. The web site I have for this says they treat the fur with
> some special stuff so that it doesn't smell like wet animal when the
> finished item is laundered or cleaned. Not sure what I will make --
> probably just a scarf. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
> PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
> Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
> their whiskers!
> Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
Well with the gloves we had knitted from Chillkoot's fur they were washed
and dried ONCE. We held them in front of his nose many times and he didn't
pay the lest amount of attention to them. I think that once the dog oil is
removed from the fur that is it. They become inert.
I still like the idea of a comforter filled with fur. I think the quilt
pattern would have to be quite small so the fur would not clump up but at
this stage I'm no expert. Spinning dog fur is no picnick for gloves or
scarfs! You have to have the right combination of fur down and the guard
hairs as you spin or the yarn is toast.
Fred
http://www.stitchaway.com
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
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Posted by Tia Mary on July 1, 2009, 8:33 am
Fred wrote:
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> Well with the gloves we had knitted from Chillkoot's fur they were washed
> and dried ONCE. We held them in front of his nose many times and he didn't
> pay the lest amount of attention to them. I think that once the dog oil is
> removed from the fur that is it. They become inert.
> I still like the idea of a comforter filled with fur. I think the quilt
> pattern would have to be quite small so the fur would not clump up but at
> this stage I'm no expert. Spinning dog fur is no picnick for gloves or
> scarfs! You have to have the right combination of fur down and the guard
> hairs as you spin or the yarn is toast.
>
> Fred
> http://www.stitchaway.com
> If nothing changes, nothing changes.
> Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
I don't think you'd want any guard hairs used as a batting -- they
are likely to be too stiff and could poke out through the fabric. IIRC,
most commercially made batting (that I have used at least) is carded and
then the fibers are laid down on some sort of scrim. The fibers are
then either "needled" to and/or glued to the scrim.
If I was going to use the fur as batting or fill for a quilt or
comforter (they are two different animals, ya know) then I would
probably make the item the way a lot of down comforters are made. Both
of mine have small (about 3" square) boxes stitched in place and each
little box is filled with down.
There is a quilt/comforter made called a "Pillow Quilt". It is
individually sewn little pillows that you fill tightly with batting. I
**think** you then turn the open edges to the inside of the filled
pocket and sew it together with an another pillow. I'm not really sure
about the proper procedure for closing and joining the pockets but it
sounds like a good way to make a blanket using fur as the batting.
If you did it that way, I might go so far as to put a floss tie in
the center of each little pillow to help keep the fur in place.
Regardless, it's something you could work on as a WIP each season that
the "puppy" blows his coat. Just keep making and adding little pillows
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until you get the blanket as large as you want. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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>> Hello. The rctq group is quiet this morning so I thought I'd drop in here
>> to see what was going on.
>> Fred wrote, in part > Almost time for his Pupmitzvah. Picking out a suitable
>> present will be easy sayeth my
>> DW, just get *her half of Casey* a nice big beef bone and get *my half of
>> Casey* some new chew toys, like a stair case, back door, house coat, shower
>> cap, a few fence posts or some new cedar trees in the yard to replace the
>> shredded ones.
>> For a special treat, may I recommend a nice collection of Southern Living
>> Cookbooks? Our Yorkie puppy chewed his way through 20 volumes and
>> apparently found them very well-seasoned. The 1982 edition was a special
>> favorite. Polly
>
>
> My son did some serious teething on favorite book... I wonder if for his
> 18th in a year, I can find a copy of it....
>
> C
>