The giraffe quilt is finished and on its way to Nicole. It will be a gift for a baby shower for a friend of the theirs. The new dad has been Chad’s hunting and fishing buddy almost since we first moved to MO. If you remember the quilt I made for the guy who helped Chad when his truck broke down in Kansas City (can’t believe it’s been over 2 years ago!), he is the new mom’s dad. Since the quilt is going to someone else, I preferred that it not be covered in cat hair. I had my spray bottle and sprayed Boots a few times but he wouldn’t stay off the quilt so I put him in Rita’s big crate. After a while, I thought maybe he had learned his lesson and let him out.
Boots and the Quilt
I went to check on Rita and when I came back, the lump hanging from the quilt on the longarm told me there might be a big furry kitty in the middle of the quilt!
Boots
He’s trying to pretend he doesn’t see me and my squirt bottle!
Boots
He was so comfortable, I hated making him move but it was back to the crate til I finished the quilt and then tried to get all the cat hair off it before binding it and packing it up to mail.
Boots is such a good helper in the sewing room! 🙂
Diann says
Just buy you a sticky tear off roller and roll your quilt. Kitty love is too important. I’ve been known to air tumble a quilt also to remove cat hair off quilts too. I have lots of help from my two. Wait till they he wants to lay under the machine and put his tail under the running needle. Your cat is adorable. I hope he sees a lot of you.
Beth in AZ says
My kitty inspector also considered my quilts on the frame as HAMMOCKS! Lol! Someone suggested to me and it worked for me …keep a piece of tin foil on the quilt while you are not quilting. They dont’ like the feel or the sound or something. No more kitty hair…I did get a disgusted look at taking her hammock away! (the tin foil can get old, crumpled and holey and still work…worth a try!)
Sandy says
My quilts end up with dog hair on them. No, my dog doesn’t get on quilts like cats do. His hair just floats through the air and lands on the quilt. My solution is to wash my quilts so they’re fresh and clean before I give them away.
LadyBaltimore says
I love Boots!
Vivian Oaks says
I had TWO kitties who loved a quilt once it was on the frame to quilt! It was the first quilt I ever planned to quilt by hand with the quilt frame my dad made me. This was before I really knew much about quilting, and nothing about good fabric. After a few days of them napping on the quilt, their claws had put holes in the cheap fabric, and the quilt almost looked like another cat, with all the fur that was left behind! 🙂 Never did finish that quilt – not even sure what happened to it. Nice that you’re able to quilt yours more quickly, so Boots doesn’t have time to turn it into a bed!! Love the giraffe quilt!!
Susan says
Honestly, I think those quilt colors are Boots’ colors so it’s no wonder he kept getting on the quilt!
Rebecca in SoCal says
Scamp!
It’s nice to see he hasn’t totally grown up.
Linda says
Busted! My cats have always been terrified of the noises my machine makes and they will not go near it. They do like to sleep in the vicinity of the machine, on a nice pile of batting trimmings, but they’ll never jump up on the machine and the loaded quilt.
katie says
Maybe Vince could create a Kitty Hammock and that way Boots would have his own personal “hanging Quilt” , leaving yours alone?? Might be worth a try.
wanda j says
Cats they have just to be right where you are ,doing what you don’t won’t them to do. But we’ve got to love them. He is so cute up there reminds me of my kitties and sewing. Does he love the scissors? One of mine did loved playing at the blade end while I was cutting with them. Hard to get anything done. But he was strange he liked grapefruit too.Anything we had to eat he had to have some. Was nuts of chocolate could find it even if you hide it. I miss the kitties….So love it when you share your’s with us.