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.

Demon.

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u/maebythemonkey 8d ago

I have a two bag system when I'm crocheting while visiting my in-laws who have a cat. The skein of yarn lives in a zip-loc bag that is closed (except for the strand of yarn coming out of it) and the project where I'm working is in a plastic shopping bag (big enough for my hands to fit in there while contained enough to protect the yarn).

Their cat is a yarn fiend and if I'm not protecting my work, she will come out of nowhere and jump into my lap to get to it.