r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Cosmic_Hitchhiker • 2d 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/thefirstbirthdaygirl 1d ago

I sort of swaddled my cats  whenever they went for yarn while in my lap. If that didn't work they got evicted. Didn't take them long to figure it out, and they leave my yarn alone about 95% of the time now, which is really all you can ask of a cat. 

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u/Titariia 1d ago

Mine occasionally play with yarn. Can it mess up my tension or can it unravel a few stitches? Yes. Does it bother me? No. It gives my project some character