A long, long time ago (May 7, 2005, to be precise), I started to knit a mobius cat bed for Chaos. Here’s a picture of Chaos with it from December, 2005 (no knitting progress has been made since then):
“I wonder if I can gnaw off this little plastic doohickey? Mom probably won’t notice. I love plastic doohickeys!” -C
What do you think? Do you think these cats really need another cat bed? Here’s May on her cat bed (what some of you might incorrectly call a loveseat)*:
“Like, duh. This is a cat bed!” -M
And Chaos on his cat bed (what some of you might incorrectly call a chair):
“….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….” -C
Let’s take a closer look – do either of these cats look deprived of a cat bed to you?!
“Mmmm… maybe Mom will screw up and not hide her yarn from me when she goes to bed.” -M
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….” -C
So, what do you think? Finish the giant mobius cat bed (directions involve blocking it on a bike inner tube! 😮 ) or rip it out and make some other felted thing from the yarn (Woolpak in forest green, plum, and black)? You can probably tell I’m not feeling the love for this project anymore!
*The camo blanket is a poncho liner left over from my National Guard days…
From Tig – “Um hello – I sleep on all the dog’s beds over here so if it’s really big and won’t show any of her blond hair, you should probably make it for her because she’s too dumb to know that she’s bigger than me and can kick me off her beds anytime she wants. Tee hee hee hee!”
I was going to say finish it until you got to the part about blocking it on a bike inner tube. Besides you realize you would go to all of that trouble and they would never use it. Katie’s bed is our bed.
I stubled over form the knitty boards to see you socktupus. I am so getting one! I love your black kitties. They remind me of mine… Boo and Friday. Though chais would definitely be mroe approriate!
No! No! No! I’m going to swim upstream here against most of the other commentors, and say finish the cat bed!! If nothing else you can place it on the loveseat and they will get in it! If you can find anyplace to elevate it off the floor, I think they would love it! Besides, it looks like you have the hard parts done already, and are in the home stretch—just do a row or two a day. Don’t worry about the inner tube thing, either—just roll up beach towels inside the rim until it mostly dries. I love the moebius stuff I’ve knit and I hate to see yours go away.. 🙂 My kitties sleep on my bed AND in their various beds,too!
Rip, rip, rip, rip, rip, rip.
When an animal has the comfort of beds and chairs and whatever they basically want, then we should get all the yarn goods.
At least that’s my theory and I’m sticking with it.
that’s why Abner doesn’t have a doggy bed, he doesn’t need it, the enter house is his doggy bed.
If there’s no love it’s time to rip. Why torture yourself with a project when there are so many other cool things to make.
I’d weigh the options–how much time had I already put into the bed, how much time would it take to finish it? Because, well, loveseat and chair (etc) notwithstanding, a cat can always use another comfy place to sit down, right?
Riiiiippp it, rip it good. It appears that Chaos & Mayhem are content with the beds they already have, you could use that yarn for other things.
Put me with the minority–you’re so close to done, it would be a shame to FROG. Look at it as a preservation tool–preserving your couch/chair/laundry from napping kitties. If you put it somewhere that there like to nap already, they’ll use it. I started one last spring and it aged until about a week ago. Finishing it was less than 2 days of knitting. Your kitties might actualy Thank You….
If you can finish it in a day or two, go for it. If it will take sustained attention longer than that…rippp. I’ve wasted so much psychic time and energy, debating about such projects and have found that usually our gut instinct is right.
At least decide, go forth and feel good about it!
We’ve got 2 of those self-same ponchos. I don’t think that either of your kitties need a cat bed. Sassy on the other hand…
The kitties look pretty comfy to me. If you’re not feeling the love, frog it. Make something you want. Knitting’s all about the fun of it.
If your kitties are anything like other kitties I have known, they would immediately curl up in the cat bed. Which would mean you no longer have to strew camo blankets over your furniture. Of course, you would need a cat bed on each loveseat, chair, couch, and bed in your condo.
But if you hate knitting it, frog it. There’s nothing wrong with camo blankets 🙂
Nah. Let it go. Pets just don’t appreciate this sort of thing.
I say go to the frog pond. You KNOW they’ll never use it anyway!
Here’s my answer:
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Make two of Wendy’s Kitty Pi’s
JUST FROGGIT!
Make smaller things stuffed with catnip instead, they’ll appreciate it just as much!
Come on! The whole world looks like a bed to a cat!
Cocoa cares nothing for her cat bed that I so lovingly knitted, but she does like the small dog’s bed.
i made the S’n’B cat bed, and some cats occasionally slept in it.
then again, dirty laundry on the floor is a cat bed. clean laundry in the laundry basket–cat bed (when not in use as a boxing ring). my unmade bed–cat bed. any couch–cat bed. towel left lying on the dryer–cat bed. table runner–cat bed. bare linoleum next to heating vent–cat bed. skein of tangled yarn–cat bed.
um, you get the picture. (felting over an inner tube? feh. too much work.)
i’m in the frog pool on this one.
Ok, that pic in Margaret’s post–who stole our black kitties for it? lol
And obviously, i’m with Guinifer…to a cat, the world is a bed. only she said it with far fewer words.
must.go.to.bed.now.
am.babbling.