Herding Cats

A naughty kitty.

Well, in this case, herding one cat!

My daughter recently picked out a pattern and some gorgeous fabric to make a quilt to show in the fair in a couple of months.  We cut out the quilt pieces this afternoon and she laid them out on the floor. This prompted our cat, who before this wanted nothing to do with the entire fabric-cutting business, to come over and lay out on the layout, so to speak. I suppose he can't wait for the finished quilt to lay on, or perhaps it's just too hot today to really lay on a real quilt.

So now the problem became how to remove said cat from the quilt parts. My daughter was eager to sew, which is very difficult to do when you have a 10-pound kitty all over your quilt pieces.  Besides which, at this point, the kitty was becoming playful and batting the pieces until they were all catty-wampus (naturally).

A very naught kitty, indeed.

To fashion a quick kitty lure, we took a wayward strip of elastic out of the sewing room.  Kitty was not fooled.  He just rolled his eyes and flicked his tail.  Not to be dissuaded, we tried a lovely section of 100% cotton blue and cream-colored yarn.  At first he seemed interested, and we got excited at the prospect of successfully getting him away from the quilt.  However, after a few seconds, it became apparent that the blue and cream-colored yarn wasn't going to cut it.  Exasperated, we finally tried a piece of ecru-colored twine.  Finally, success.  We managed to coax him off the laid out quilt with minimal damage to it, and off he went, content with something to chew on for a while.  Whew.

Of course, now he's looking at me, the twine is gone, and he's got that evil glint in his eye.  I'd better find some more twine.