You can make delicious homemade butter with goat milk! After collecting cream from the top of your milk, whip it up with a stand mixer, salt to taste, refrigerate, and spread on fresh bread. Follow these steps for creamy, delectable butter and buttermilk to use in biscuits or pancakes.
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If you’re a soap maker, you are bound to end up with a few bars or batches that you just don’t like. Here are a few ideas for using up that “ugly” soap. Try making mosaic soap, re-batching, or felting to give old soap a new look!
Making felted soap is fun and easy. All you need is a bar of soap, some natural fiber like mohair or wool, water, and your hands! Follow these steps to create a gently exfoliating, long-lasting, and beautiful way to wash. Instructions for decorating your felted soap are also included.
In the spring, wild birds are on the lookout for nest building materials. You can provide a one-stop shop for your backyard friends by providing them with a nesting ball. Here are directions for weaving a grapevine ball and filling it with natural fibers.
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Dogs love to play fetch or tug-of-war with rope toys. Making a toy for your dog is easy and fun. Here is a way to make a DIY rope toy out of recycled materials.
You can turn scraps of natural fiber yarn into something useful and eliminate waste while crafting. Using this tutorial, you can welt-felt beautiful dryer balls from leftover pieces of yarn. These recycled dryer balls help reduce drying time and wrinkles in your laundry.
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If you want to hand-weave a mohair breast collar for your horse, here are four design options that you can try. Each uses a variety of 2-ply mohair cord to make triangles or bars which are easy to create for beginner weavers. Included are the colors and lengths of cord that are needed to make the pattern shown.
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You can weave a beautiful, durable, and breathable breast collar for your horse using mohair cord. Here are the directions for making a 34-inch, standard horse-sized breast collar. The two sides consist of 11 strands of 8-ply mohair, while the down strap is 9 strands with a roper-style finish. Decorate with a design made from 2-ply mohair and attach tugs of your choice.
You can weave a beautiful and durable camera strap or gun sling using mohair cord. Here are the directions for making a 28-inch-long strap with 9 strands of 8-ply mohair. If you choose, you can decorate your strap with a design made from 2-ply mohair, three examples are included.
If you are kidding in a cold climate, a warming barrel can help keep your baby goats from getting hypothermia when they are very young. By cutting holes in a 55-gallon drum, you can make a place for baby goats to come warm up at their leisure. Securing a heat lamp in the warming barrel reduces fire hazard risk because the dam cannot access it.