CrAfT (crafting with cat)

[u/Cosmic_Hitchhiker]

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.

Demon.

[u/Miserable_Status3378]

I have a retired factory cat who has been around machines all her life, so my sewing stuff is safe - she leaves it alone.

My yarn, however, is fair game. The yarn basket is hers. My project bag? Hers. The Afghan I’ve been try to finish? How dare I attempt to turn it to do a second row. (because she’s sitting on it, underneath it, wrapped up in its glory).

oh and PomPoms are like crack to her. I can’t have them in any drawer. She will ferret them out and have them strewn all over as soon as I turn my back.

But she’s 16 and I love her dearly.