Alaskan Malamute/Akita/Schæfer, 140 meters of sportweight yarn.
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Spinning Ebba :)
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011German Shepherd yarn
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
100 % Shorthaired German Shepherd yarn, 126 meters and a worsted weight.
Golden Retriever yarn
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Golden Retriever yarn; 89 meters (71) grams and sportweight.
Finnish lapphund yarn
Monday, November 15th, 2010I got a fibersample from a Finnish Lapphund a while ago, and I spun it up to a soft and nice yarn 
Border Collie yarn
Monday, August 30th, 2010I got a bag of fur that was brushed of my FILs Border Collie, Kira. And I spun it up to a nice sample yarn. After washing it came out really nice!
I only had a pic of her head, but at least it is a pic of her
Leonberger
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010When we were at Camp pluckyfluff in May, someone had put some fibers from their Loenberger on the sharingtable. I grabbed a handpul and took it with me home. It is not much, but it came out as a nice yarn I think.
TDF – Summary
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Silkhankies spun into a 2 ply - 107 meters x 2 = 214 meters
Supercoiled yarn – 28 meters finished but on the lower end of the estimate it was 328 meters before plying = 328 meters
Bernese mountaindog -70 meters x 2= 140 meters
BFL 3 ply – 164 meters x 3 = 494 meters
Pink 3ply - 188,5 meters x 3 = 565, 5 meters
Pink 2 ply – 46,5 meters x 2 = 93 meters
Yellow 3 ply – 45 meters x 3 = 135 meters
Yellow 2 ply – 433 meters x 2 = 866 meters
A total of 2838,5 meters spun and 1082 meters plied =3920,5 meters spun = 1082 meters of finished yarn
Spinning dogyarn.
Monday, November 23rd, 2009A few days ago my neighbour gave me a bag of fur from her friends Bernese Mountaindog, she had visisted her freind and they were grooming their dog and she thought of me and that I probably would like to try spinning the “dogwool”. Now that is a true friend!!!
I got a big nice and soft fluff from this dog called Shiraz (Not my pic, but I got permission from the owner to post the pic here).
And I decided to spin it as it was because the fiber was already sort of carded from the grooming, and I wanted to see how the fiber acted without blending in any other fiber for strength and such.
And I spun the fibers as two singles with a high twist, so that they would ply nice and tight. The yarn is 52 grams, 61 meters and 12 wpi that would be a sportweight yarn. The fibers in its loose form was very nice and soft, but the finished yarn came out a bit coarse, and I would not prefer to have it next to my skin. But I liked this experience and I have abit of Samoyed and Newfoundland dogfur coming my way soon to try to spin
