Wednesday, August 15, 2007

New Kitten and New Kitten Bed

E.J. decided since we were adding to the family, he should get to pick one out too so he called me up from a clients home and asked me to come get Cocoa Bean. Yes, he's a male, born near the end of June, and we only wanted females this time around, but he's soo cute and his color is really unusual. It's a brownish smoke grey, but he's tuxedo marked. Stimpy loves him, she has someone a little smaller than her to play with, Xena has just about disowned us. She was willing to tolerate Stimpy, but now she has no patience for either of them. Xena chases the babies out of our bedroom and she rules the back half of the house, the kittens run the living room and kitchen area. I guess a second kitten was more than she could handle, but we're attached to the new kids already so she is going to have to learn how to deal with it. Silly girl, she really wants to play with them too. She'll start to, then remember that she is jealous and smak them upside the head and run down the hall. Oh well, I hope she gets over it soon.
The final pattern for the felted kitty bed. There are so many things I will be using this technique to make. I'll put up the pattern for it in a couple of weeks, I still want to refine a few things and it's kind of tricky to put what I did into words. But it's definitely easy to do and makes the bowl shape I was after. **UPDATE** I've posted the pattern. Here's the link http://clarissepatterns.blogspot.com/

The pink and red and blue was a short row experiment that looked like it would make the bowl shape, but when I washed it to felt the yarn, it laid flat and made a felted pad. It's actually kind of fun and can be used for several different things. A hot pad, a little throw rug, a chair pad, but Stimpy likes to sleep on it, so it's hers, but it's a good thing she likes to share cuz Cocoa Bean seems to have adopted it too :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love your newest version! You'll have it down in no time.

I haven't had the nerve to do felting. I'm afraid that it'll just be a waste of yarn. [shrug] I think if I had a cat, I might try it out these little beds. I surely wouldn't do it for me to wear. I don't want to make something I would end up throwing away.

I do have a Rottweiler. I'm sure he might like this in his favorite resting place in the frontroom. Have you thought about making up a much bigger version?

You are doing such great work!

This is Donna in San Francisco on the KEKnitList.

Cerita said...

Clarrise, I LOVE the new kitten, he is ever so cute!!!! Oh! so lovely!

Unknown said...

Please post the pattern, my cats NEED this bed :)