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[camwyn]

So. I have a cat, the one you see in my icon here. He likes, for the most part, to sleep on my bed or on the backpack I use for carrying around my laptop computer. (It's a 19 inch widescreen. Finding a carrier that isn't a backpack is more trouble than it's worth.) I'm planning on getting another cat before the end of the month, once Shula's been vaccinated properly. At Bide-a-Wee, the shelter I'm going to, the cats have their own beds. I'd like to give whatever cat I wind up with the opportunity to feel at least somewhat similarly comforted, and I don't want Shula to get the idea that 'what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine', so I think I need to produce a bed for him as well.

'Produce' is used deliberately. When I was cleaning up my apartment last I ran across my winter yarn stash and a whole lot of roving I haven't spun yet. I'm planning on knitting a kitty bed and seeing whether I have the patience to knit two. Thing is, most of the patterns I've found call for felting, and the ones that don't involve buying yarns I don't have and don't much want to go out and buy (eyelash? Really?). So I think I may attempt to get myself back into the spinning thing by trying to spin some fiber into bulky wool and ultimately felt that. And after I've gone through that trouble I can then say 'screw this, I done my best, I'm buying the next one'.

It's a thing. Do it the hard way the first time and then you're allowed to do it the easy way. What can I say?

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[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

I've got some handspun thick wool yarn if you want it. And I wouldn't mind mailing it or spinning you some more to felt up kitty beds.

[camwyn]

I think I'll be all right, but thank you. I need to go through all the roving I bought back when I was on my first spinning kick.