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…
If you do finish it, they will look at you like your are crazy if you think they are going to give up their big cat beds for that! I say frog it and make something else.
Plotting to deprive the catchen! Well, I never…
You know that by now they’d just ignore it. Frog!
Make cat toys! 🙂
No. They don’t need beds, they have furniture. 😉
Unless you are planning to curl up in the cat bed yourself, I’d use the yarn for something else. I slept all night with a big snowshoe basset foot in my kidney. Our furry people don’t need animal beds.
Ribbit ribbit.
RRRRIIPPPPPP!!!
See, if the kitties thought they were kitties then maybe they would need kitty beds…Since they do not know they are kitties, all of your furniture is theirs. So, y’know, I’m sure there’s something else fun that you can do with that yarn (although the bike tube blocking sounds like fun).
you most obviously do not want to finish knitting it. more importantly, the cats do not look deprived or neglected in any way shape or form.
First time leaving a message, love your kitty pictures. I’m curious about this pattern that needs an inner tube to block, can you share? Like you said I don’t think your feeling the love anymore on this project–make something else that the kitty’s can help you knit.
LOL what Kate wrote! It’s time to rip it!
Uh, recycle the yarn… My guys would just never use it, or go for it for that matter. What do they need a kitty bed for when they have a whole couch/chair/Mom to sleep on?!
If you’re not feeling the love from the pattern anymore, I say frog it. Otherwise, if you force yourself to do it, it’s really going to drag on and on and on. Plus, I usually find that when you make a designated cat bed, the cats don’t use it. Why should they when they could use your bed, or loveseat, or chair, etc. etc.?
frog it, time to move on. those two certainly are not deprived of anything 🙂
Frog it, they’ll never use it. Love the kids handknits, LOL at some of them as I could just see my kids in them
I want to see it finished, but if you think they really won’t miss it, and if you aren’t going to miss it, frog and put the yarn to good use.
Wait now, if a mobius strip only has one surface, how does a cat sleep in a mobius cat bed? I is confused.
Such cute sleepy (and mischeivious) kitties! I’d say they’re well supplied with toys and surfaces to sprawl out upon ;o) And – that is a LOT of feltable wool yarn. I’m sure there are numerous other creative projects you could think up to make with it!
I’d rip it! If Chaos and May are anything like Terry, they’d never be seen sleeping in a cat bed, or anything else intended for them. Put the wool to good use! (Terry’s cat bed is used as his toy box!)
I’d recycle the yarn. When you are a tired cat, everything can turn into a kitty bed.
Rrrrrip it…rip it good….LOL I seem to be channeling Devo this morning.
Use that yarn for something else! I have 3 who are the same way…they won’t care a fig if you “knit and felt” them something special. They just want the couch!
(((hugs)))
Rip it~! Let it go. do something you want to do instead. 🙂
Knitting should be fun, so if you’re not feeling the love, I say frog it. Of course, I grow emotionally attached to my knitting, so I have a hard time letting it go, but I’m just a touch crazy.
I agree with the others. Your cat bed pattern sounds more complicated than the one I used for my boys (the Princess Snowball Cat bed, in masculine colors, of course). At first, they didn’t sleep in the beds, but I put them on the couch in the favorite spots, and find that if the cats sleep in them on the cold days, it cuts down on the cat hair I have to vacuum off the sofa. The beds are garter-stitch, quick to knit, and don’t involve felting, so if they don’t use them that often, it isn’t a big loss of time. Your pattern sounds complicated for something that C and M might not use at all.
Kaity knit Carmie a cat bed – she loves it!
Frog ’em. My Mom knit her two cats catbeds. They don’t sleep in them. This has caused strained feelings of unpleasantness. Kitties like to slum it and pretend they are people, sitting and sleeping where we people like to sit and sleep.
They don’t need another bed. I say rip it.
Rip it. And knit several thousand felted cat nip mice.
I think you should rip it out and use the yarn to knit a felted chair or loveseat. (There’s a wonderful old Avengers episode in which the knitting group is knitting a bungalow — I’m suggesting a smaller project.)
If you’re not feeling it
Rip It. Rip it Good!
They’d only fight over it anyway – (although that could provide hours of entertainment)
Chris- As it stands, they look pretty content to me, so I wouldn’t mess with their set-up.
Kitten-Chow had his own cat bed, never used it, and now has his own chair with his Cat-In-The-Hat blankie.
Woe betide those who touch that!
Frog it and use it for something else. I bet they have another cat bed too – you might erroneously think of it as your bed. Those cats are well equipped for the 18 hours of sleep that they need.
And you know, if you did finish it, neither of them would actually want to sleep in it.
If you’re not feeling the love and haven’t for over a year it is probably time to let it go and rip it. The colors are great and could easily be used for felted bowls or bags or boxes etc.
If you’re no longer feeling the love, well then you know the answer…
RIBBIT
Besides, if you don’t want to finish the first one, how would you ever manage a second one? You know you’d need two of them. If they’re like my boys, they won’t want to take turns and will only sit on each other and bite ears to get the other one out.
I’m still trying to muster up the courage for the second one.
(There’s lots of ear-biting going on over here…)
Even though Ekho sleeps ANYWHERE, his favorite place in the house is on top of the couch, right by the window where I put his felted sleeping mat thingy. If I move the sleeping mat he won’t sit up there. It’s pretty funny.
Make them the bed anyway. If it doesn’t work out, give it to someone else. But it’s worth a shot if you can get them to use it. It made me all warm and fuzzy inside.
Where does a small cat sleep?
Any damn where it wants.
Heh, plenty of opinions posted already. It might give May something to chew on instead of your yarn. Or repurpose it into a felted kitty mat? Whatever you decide… have fun. : )
I’d probably frog it, unless you wanted to finish it and donate it to Socks for Sheep 2007! 🙂 Hehe, just kidding, (unless you REALLY want to donate it) frog it and make something fun! Personally, I want to make the mobius cat bed with paws and tail for my best friend Kriss and her cat, Milan.
I’d say they’ve made their choices. Finishing it and having it rejected would be too painful! I say frog it or finish it and donate it to an animal shelter.
Hmmm, it’s quite a bit of yarn, so it could be very useful for other projects…and it appears that the cats will not be happy with anything other than the furniture! So I say frog away!
Hmmm… this is a tough one! The part of me that has wanted to make one of those (but I don’t have cats, it would have to be a gift) says MAKE IT! (That way I can see how it turned out for you and how the blocking on the inner tube went). BUT, if it’s sat around for nearly 2 years, well, rippit! Maybe you could make a couple of felted cat mats that Miriam mentioned instead. Or that bungalow sounds interesting.
I vote for ripping. You’re sufficiently time-removed (and thus emotionally removed) from this project so that it will not cause you uncontrollable twitching as you frog.
Do you hear that in the distance? It sounds like frogs….rip it rip it rip it.
Mmm, I’d rip it out and find a cardboard box for them to nap in. That’s what mine like!
rip rip rip! the cats won’t know the diff.
Spoiled kitties 🙂
Ah I was feeling inspired by your catbed to knit a few of my own….
Frog it, baby!
*ahem* There is no such thing as too many cat beds. Just ask our human. Everything she knits for us becomes a cat bed one way or another, even if that was not her plan.
I think you should finish it and give it to me. I need a place to keep warm.