Sticky Paws Blog

Many months ago my friend Chris from Mix and Match gave me a bucket of clippings from her beautiful angora rabbit.  I had been thinking for a while how I could use this fibre and had read that angora rabbit fibre felts very well.  The problem was the fibre is quite short and although I have a drum carder it is buried at the back of my shed (which I must sort out).  In the meantime, Chris’ poor rabbit sadly died and I decided I really must get on with making her a scarf.

I decided to do a cobweb scarf as I wanted it to be delicate and open, and I hoped to preserve the ‘halo’ effect from the angora fibre.

I placed individual layers from a silk hankie in a row, slightly overlapping them, and then put very fine layers of baby blue merino across the width of the scarf.  I then placed the white angora rabbit fibre horizontally along the scarf and finished with an indigo dyed fibre which I think is tencel.  (I think labelling fibres is in one of my Top Tips lists - if it isn’t it needs to be as I am rubbish at remembering what I have previously done).

Cobwell Felted Scarf using Angora Rabbit Fibre

Close Up of Cobweb Scarf

I am really pleased (and I think Chris is too) how this scarf felted.  As well as white fibre in the bucket, there is also a beautiful blue/grey fibre which I want to use.  I am hoping that when it is dyed the grey fibre will give a completely different colour to the dyed white - I’ll let you know how I get on.