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Spool knitted Kittycat Bookmark- Introduction

by Noreen on March 17th, 2008

My mother once said to me that she thought that I would end up living in a cottage with 200 cats.

Um.

Thank you?

At least she was laughing when she said it.

I’m sure she meant it nicely………

Anyhow, I feel like we’re getting kinda close to that….

Here’s the story…..

We were actually down to just one cat:

She’s old. She’s grumpy. She likes dogs.

She DOES NOT LIKE OTHER CATS.

The expression on her face? Well… she’s not amused.

oh my.

Why?………. when Jim’s Mum passed away, we adopted her kitty….

Who is also elderly, and dislikes other cats.

And, by the way, she dislikes dogs too.

You can see where this is going, can’t you?

It didn’t go that well at first.

or second.

or third…..

So, almost a year later, things have started to settle down…..

Until our son and his wife moved in with us. Yay!

We love having them here. They’re great! and

2 of their cats-

GREAT!

Total sweetheart number 1

and

total sweetheart number 2.

AND, then there is…..

<<<<<<<<<<<<<HIMSELF>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sigh. This poor boy has been through so much.

He’s been passed around and moved way too many times. So, he doesn’t get it that he is finally with his forever people.

He’s a challenge.

Ahem.

Well…. he’s

A   <! C H A L L E N G E  !>

Ah, Mr. Mayhem.  We are all working on finding creative ways to get him settled in, and praying for peace to unfold again. Oh my.   

He ripped my face open on Saturday, after having kept us up all night Friday night…. and committed a couple of other grievous acts…….. like I said: A challenge.

(Otherwise known as a great teacher of patience and compassion…… erg.)

And so, given our sudden abundance of felininity….

I decided that I would unilaterally  declare it to be

The Year of the Cat.

Enough of this ‘year of the rat’ business….

if there was a rat around, Mr. Mayhem would eat it.

So, since I had spool knitted a rat in honor of year of the rat, I had to design a spool knitted kittycat bookmark.

I made it orange in honor of Mr. Mayhem.

He’s a problem furchild, but we love him……

Ooops…. this has gone on rather longer than I intended, so I’ll just show you what the kitty bookmark looks like, and then start posting the how to tute for it!

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