I found the cat.
No she isn’t floating. There is a window behind those curtains. The curtains go down to the floor to help block the cold from the open window. The window is open because that is her access to the catio. She jumped up there because she heard something outside. I guess this is a failed tail wrap, but it is awfully cute.
When I bought the basket for Sophie, the outside cat, it came as a two set. Our inside cat Izzy enjoys the larger basket as it fits her perfectly. She has a towel instead of a hand made mat because she likes laying on towels.
I thought today I would share my cat bowl hack. Our grocery store carries plastic salsa bowls for $1 each (this may be a southern thing). These make awesome cat food bowls because the feet raise up the food a little for the cats, they are dishwasher safe, and if they drop, they don’t shatter. They are heavier than regular plastic bowls, so don’t move as much as the cats lick the last bits from the bottom. And the cats love them. So much so that Izzy (the inside calico), refuses to eat from the other bowls we have.
Sophie likes to sit in my plant pots.
Although she is cute pretending to be a plant, I don’t want to encourage the behavior so eventually I can actually have green plants in there. I bought a cute woven hyacinth basket and filled it with straw, but she was unimpressed.
I have a large amount of “big yarn” which is really just roving.
There are many posts and videos about arm knitting using this kind of fiber, the problem is, we spin fiber to make it more resilient and give it strength. Fiber that is only combed has neither quality. So to do a first-hand test, I crocheted up a round mat of the fiber using a P crochet hook.
Although I was able to crochet it (the P hook was on the small size for comfortably crocheting), it was already shedding fiber before I even finished.
My hypothesis is that, although the stitching looks beautiful now, and it went together quickly, it won’t take much for it to look like a matted mess.
However, Sophie thoroughly approves. So she will be my tester and we’ll see what condition the matt is in a few months.
She is looking for her house gecko. I just couldn’t leave him down there. She isn’t mad at me because she doesn’t know what I’ve done.
Critters and Craft 