LabPaca: New Home Industry
Duh! Why didn't we think of this before? Here it has been, right under our noses (in our noses, really, and our breakfast cereal and the bottom of our socks)--the basis for an untapped home industry. All we need here is a cooperative association to pool our product in sufficient quantities for garment production. That should be easy through the internet and from among the bloggers I already know who own the primary resource: a yellow lab.
This is the time of year when yellow labs shed hair not in ones or twos but in clots of fur thick as rolled socks. DONT THROW IT AWAY! The soft, tawny fiber can be spun into downy yarn and knit into scrumptious LabPaca garments like these. Supplement your income while you groom! (Or simply wait and collect the large aggregations of shed hair--called Dust Hippos-- from the corners of your rooms in April and May!)
I look forward to accepting your memberships in the Co-op and receiving your first shipment of FABULOUS FIDO FUR bound for your future sweaters, vests and socks!
Comments
We used to have a husky/shepherd mix that had fur about 8" long. I could have made a mint making sweaters, yarn and area rugs out of it. Of course I was too lazy to do more than vacuum it up and send it to the dump - or sometimes set some out for the birds to make nests out of it.
Posted by: bogie | April 26, 2004 9:01 AM
But what happens when it rains, hmmm?
Posted by: Anne | April 26, 2004 5:04 PM
There are spinners and weavers in the Berkeley area who will actually make a LabPaca or a KittyGorga sweater for you.
Posted by: feste | April 26, 2004 6:56 PM