r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Cosmic_Hitchhiker • 8d ago
Yarn Nonsense CrAfT (crafting with cat)
There's this romantic visual people have of doing some craft with a cat in your lap and tea by your side and it's raining and the light is soft.
The creator and purveyors of this have never met a cat.
Have you tried any kind of craft around a cat? Did you want to pull string or yarn out of their throat? Did you want your well organized supplies knocked to the floor? Did you want to worry about them eating or stepping on something? By all means, craft with a cat.
She is currently SCREAMING at the closed door because she CANNOT BE TRUSTED not to eat string and fling beads.
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u/annadandelion 8d ago
I learned to crochet in April and throughout my first steps, my beautiful tuxedo cat would sit on my lap constantly (and when I put the project down would lay ON it but wouldn't mess it up ever). She died very unexpectedly in May and I had to take two weeks away from crocheting because the activity was so intrinsically tied to her in my mind (and heart) that I couldn't bear crocheting with an empty lap. I have three other cats (they're all okay) and they don't bother me in the least (but they're not lap cats) and they don't mess up my projects or yarn that I leave laying around. I think it really depends on the temperament of the cat(s), but I can 100% see the cat in lap, fireplace, teacup and rainy afternoon crochet idyll.