Even Better than store bought Hikers Wool

Robo

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I've been a fan of Hikers Wool since 2015 when I first used it on Camino.
It's wonderful stuff.
Providing a soft padding and natural oils on 'hot spots' as they occur, so that blisters can be avoided!

I've been trialling a new version of Hikers Wool that we have been collecting at Home.
Meet my business partner 'Tiger', a 5 year old British Short Hair.
He looks after the production side of things.

Tiger2.jpg

The idea came to use when brushing Tiger recently. He sheds a lot of Hair!
This is one month worth of brushing.......

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It's enough to fill a sandwich bag, which I reckon would last 1 Pilgrim 1 month on Camino.

But. This is so much better than sheep's wool.
It's softer, like super fine Merino.
It has cat oils in it which are far nicer to your skin, and the best part is......

Being cat hair, you just leave it out overnight and it's self cleaning :)

The only slight downside we've noticed in use, is that it tends to attract Dogs.
But we're working on that.......

Available soon on Amazon. ;)
 
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I've been a fan of Hikers Wool since 2015 when I first used it on Camino.
It's wonderful stuff.
Providing a soft padding and natural oils on 'hot spots' as they occur, so that blisters can be avoided!

I've been trialling a new version of Hikers Wool that we have been collecting at Home.
Meet my business partner 'Tiger', a 5 year old British Short Hair.
He looks after the production side of things.

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The idea came to use when brushing Tiger recently. He sheds a lot of Hair!
This is one month worth of brushing.......

View attachment 167122

It's enough to fill a sandwich bag, which I reckon would last 1 Pilgrim 1 month on Camino.

But. This is so much better than sheep's wool.
It's softer, like super fine Merino.
It has cat oils in it which are far nicer to your skin, and the best part is......

Being cat hair, you just leave it out overnight and it's self cleaning :)

The only slight downside we've noticed in use, is that it tends to attract Dogs.
But we're working on that.......

Available soon on Amazon. ;)
Ewww...!
 
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I forgot what day it is :-D You had me going.

But ok, I ordered hikers wool from New Zealand last time... Living in Norway, a sheep country, i found that really stupid. Soooo, I went on a hunt for local fiber artists/spinners. And law and behold, for a fraction of the price I got a bag of clean raw wool. Hopefully it performs. So I was already in line for a creative solution to hikers wool.
 
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Thinking out of the box here too... I am a professional longarm quilter and I have lots of 100% wool batting scraps... hmmm. I will try it out in my shoes too!
Hi Karyn - my wife has also been a quilter for many years (45+) and on her behalf we are wondering if you have ever put together or quilted a Camino-themed quilt. Any patterns out there that you know about?
 

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