This Morning viewers left unimpressed with a dog lover who uses her Samoyed’s hair to knit SWEATERS 

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A woman who makes jumpers and scarfs using hair shed by her dog has been branded ‘disgusting’ by This Morning viewers.  

Jane Crewe, from Edinburgh, appeared on the ITV show with her Samoyed Phaedra today where she explained to a bewildered Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby she has collected hair samples from all over the world as part of a project to knit 100 yarns of Samoyed hair in 100 days. 

But viewers were left unimpressed with Jane’s ambitious project, and said they found knitting dog hair unhygienic, while others said the jumpers looked ‘itchy’ and ‘uncomfortable’.

Others even compared her to Cruella De Vil – but she defended the practice saying she gets sent ‘bags and bags’ of Samoyed coats from all over the world and that the art has been practiced for thousands of years. 

Host Phillip also defended it, explaining the process is an ancient art and not as strange as it sounds.

‘Because when you say it, it sounds a bit odd, but there is nothing weird about this, this is an ancient art,’ he said. 

‘It’s funny because everybody has been so interested in it and it’s something that anybody with a northern breed dog like a Samoyed or an Alaska Malamute, anything with a double coat knows you can make coats out of their hair,’ Jane said. 

‘And spinners will spin anything, so it’s been happening for thousands of years,’ she added. 

‘But everybody’s so interested in it all of a sudden, and it does sound a bit mad when you say it.’ she went on.

Phil and Holly also admitted mittens that Jane had knitted from her dog’s hair, noting how soft they were.  

Holly said she had worried the mitten would ‘smell of wet dog,’ but said it wasn’t the case at all. 

Jane explained how she collects the hair to make the yarn that she will knit later. 

‘Normally the process is quite natural. The dog loses their undercoat, and you brush your dog. With a northern breed dog you’ll get the undercoat, not the top hair, the bit that we stroke but the bit underneath that keeps them warm,’ she said. 

When Holly asked her how much hair Phaedra shed, Jane explained female dogs produce less hair than males. 

‘The female blow their coat twice a year, so they lose all of their undercoat,’ she said, explaining Phaedra loses enough hair every year to fill three supermarket carrier bags.

She said a big male can shed enough hair to fill three heavy duty bin bags. 

She said that Samoyed are hypoallergenic dogs, which meant people aren’t allergic to them.

However, she added it depends on the breed, and someone who is allergic to the dandruff and oils some dogs produce would be allergic to sweater made out of dog hair as well.  

She revealed that she asked other Samoyed owners on social media to send her their pets’ hair during lockdown so she could turn them into balls of yarn, and was inundated with parcels from all over the world.  

‘Because you only get better at something by doing it over and over and over again,’ she explained. 

‘I couldn’t believe the actual response that I got from people,’ saying she received ‘bags, boxes of Samoyed coat from all over the world.

An owner from Hong Kong sent the hair of her Samoyed who had passed away 11 years ago, and Jane turned it in yarn as well. 

Jane said she is making the yarns for fun and was ‘awful at asking people for money.’ 

She admitted the idea was ‘mad as a box of frogs,’ adding ‘like most of the rest of the country.’ 

But viewers did not share Jane’s enthusiasm, and some said her hobby seems unhygienic, even thought she cleans the hair. 

Some also said the sweater and props she had brought with her on the show looked ‘itchy.’  

‘Soft and itchy,’ one said, while another said ‘Looks itchy AF.’

‘Can feel how itchy that would be from here.. I’m scratching,’ said another.  

‘Coming up next Cruella De Vil,’ one said.