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Garden Girl TV: How to Shear a Rabbit for spinning and knitting angora yarn

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Patti the Garden Girl shears one of her angora rabbits, in preparation for making a baby hat. For more visit www.gardengirltv.com and http FULL TEXT: How to Shear a Rabbit (Music Playing) Today, I am going to show you how I go from rabbit to baby hat. And, I am going to start off by shearing one of my giant German angora rabbits. Now, this guy right here, he is a buck and he was born here. He is about 10 months old and I have sheared him before but he is a little bit nervous right now and a little bit skittish so, I am going to spent a little time petting him and I am also going to start brushing him a little bit too. I am just going to take some time here right now to just get rid of all the matts that I can. And, this is basically clipping all of the matted hair that really is not going to be useable at all, and I am just going to start there. Now, I love knitting and I love spinning and I love doing it when I have a specific person in mind. So today, I am going to take all of the angora from my buck here and I am going to spin it into some yarn that I am going to make into a small baby hat. And, it is going to be for Paulo who is my neighbor, my new neighbor. He is 6 months old yesterday. And, since winter was coming near, I am going to make him a hat that is going to keep him super extra warm this winter. Okay, so I am just brushing my buck angora out right now. And, I am going to pick a place to start shearing him. Now, the angora wool is actually 7 times warmer than