I love knitting but yarn is expensive. I've never spun before but I work at a dog grooming salon where I throw out tumbleweeds of undercoat and I just got permission from my boss to use this fur to spin into yarn. I've ordered a spindle and started saving fur. Currently my plan is to separate the fur by colour, wash it, dye it, dry it, brush and blend it, spin it, ply it, set it, and then felt it, in that order. I have a couple slicker brushes to brush and blend the fur and was hoping to dye it with food colouring. I do not want to use a niddy noddy and was thinking about setting the spin by tying and wrapping it around something plastic and putting it in hot water for a while. I understand this will be a steep learning curve spinning dog hair (that's part of the fun) but is there anything I'm missing in this plan? For example, does dog fur dye differently from wool? Will plying it, if the spins cancel out, make it more fragile? Should I felt it before plying too? Does shaved poodle hair spin well too? Poodle mixes? Thanks!