{"id":18137,"date":"2017-10-16T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:09:19","slug":"goat-to-yarn-to-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/goat-to-yarn-to-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Goat to Yarn to Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Angora Goat to Mohair Yarn to Amigurumi Goat…<\/p>\n

\"Angora<\/p>\n

…this is an an 8-year-long yarn story! <\/p>\n

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Our story begins in 2009, in Ontario, Canada…<\/p>\n

\"Wellington<\/p>\n

I visited Wellington Fibres<\/a>, a small farm that raises Angora goats. <\/p>\n

(In case you didn’t know, Angora bunnies<\/strong> produce angora fibre, and Angora goats<\/strong> produce mohair fibre – there’s no such thing as a ‘Mohair Goat’!) <\/p>\n

\"Wellington<\/p>\n

I enjoyed seeing all the adorable little newborn kids, and toured the mill that processes the mohair fibre into yarn. <\/p>\n

\"Wellington<\/p>\n

And I left with a skein of unwashed mohair-blend yarn, to make my own amigurumi goat. <\/p>\n

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Later that year, I washed and dried my yarn…<\/p>\n

\"washing<\/p>\n

…and then life happened. I moved halfway around the world, then my commissions list got so backed up that it was years before my Goat design made its way to the top of the list!<\/p>\n

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Fast forward to 2017 – my Goat commission was happening at last, so it was finally time to use my mohair yarn to make a goat from its own fibre! <\/p>\n

I wound my precious yarn, and it looked much too fine, so I doubled it and wound it again. Ooh, it looked so good:<\/p>\n

\"wound<\/p>\n

But when I started to crochet, I discovered that the doubled yarn was far too thick – I wanted this goat to be a little kid, not the largest goat in my collection! <\/p>\n

I couldn’t think of a clever way to separate the doubled yarn, so I had to unwind it a metre at a time, crochet from one strand, and hand-wind the other strand into a ball. <\/p>\n

It was slow going, but it worked, and eventually, I ended up with my little natural-fibre goat:<\/p>\n

\"kid<\/a><\/p>\n

So now I finally have the goat I dreamed of, 8 years ago and half a world away \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

(By the way, if you’d like to make your own, you can find my Farmyard Goats crochet pattern here<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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Epilogue: <\/strong>I’ve since discovered the dreaded clothes moths in my house – disaster! My poor little goat and all my other natural fibre amigurumi are having a little vacation in a ziplock bag in the freezer at the moment, in case they’ve been contaminated – it’d be terrible if this story ended in a moth-eaten goat!<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you’d like to make an amigurumi animal from its own fibre (or from any yarn – they always look great in acrylic too, and at least aren’t at risk of moths that way!) do check out my collection of Natural Fibre Amigurumi Patterns<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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