Cats and kiltmaking

[Bugbear]

That's funny. A couple of my cats love to lay around on a regular old brown paper bag. I have no idea why, but they love them.

I had a kitty notebook in college. My cat was always getting in my books and notes, so I made him his own notebook w/ kitty pictures and all sorts of fun stuff in the pages. He'd play awhile and then fall asleep on it.

I get a bit nervous wearing some of my better kilts around them because all six have all their claws. Just one swipe, and it's all over...

[James MacMillan]

OK – Not kilt related, but it’s a cat story.

One fall while fishing, my dad and I discovered and rescued two kittens that someone had put into a burlap bag and threw into the river. The bag had washed on to a sand bar and we were attracted by their mews.

We dried them off, cuddled them and took them home. A little milk and bread soggies later and they were purring away and content.

I named them Sandy and Pokey. (found on a Sand bar in a poke!) Anyway, as this was fall and blue jean weather, I trained each of them to climb up one leg and then perch on my shoulders. They seemed to love it, and it was amusing to my family and friends. I know it amused me all winter. I would slap my thighs and up they would be sitting on my shoulders like some pirate’s parrot or something.

Well the first warm day of spring comes and I’m out washing my cousins car, yes – wearing shorts, and my Mother opens the kitchen door and lets Sandy and Pokey out. I hear the door slam and turn around to see two cats headed for me. Now I know that there is nothing that I could do to stop them, I could only delay them.

So I stood there and gritted my teeth. Sure enough, up my legs they go and before I know it, they are again sitting on my shoulders, but they have bloody claws. They sat there licking their paws for a while and then jumped down.

Me? I had some interesting claw marks up my legs, and I could never get either one of them to climb up my legs, no matter what I was wearing. Somehow, they had lost interest. Cats.

[billmcc]

You never know what will interest a cat.

Barb, I seem to remember you mentioning that your daughter was going to try her hand at making a kilt. How is that going?

[Barb T]

You never know what will interest a cat.

Barb, I seem to remember you mentioning that your daughter was going to try her hand at making a kilt. How is that going?

Last spring, she was about half way through a beautiful long kilt made from NYC tartan (she's a piper and a dancer and didn't think she needed yet another regular kilt!). She was doing a beautiful job, but graduation from college and commissioning as a lieutenant in the Air Force and getting married (all within the space of three weekends...) kind of got in the way. Since then, she and her husband have moved to New Mexico where she's stationed (she's a research physicist at the Starfire Optical Range at Kirtland AFB), and she's got her hands full. She's also starting an online degree in graphic design next week (just for fun, she says), so who knows when the kilt will come out of the box. I know she'll finish it some time!

BTW, your bracelet would make a great kilt buckle. Not that you should convert it though.

It's quite a wonderful old Navajo bow guard, and the bracket in the back to hold it on the leather guard would actually work just fine to hold a belt, so no conversion would be needed!

Barb

[Galician]

Oh, I do hope that pics are posted once she finishes that kilt. My first kilt was a "tank" from Geoffrey Tailor in that tartan, as it was the only one which I felt entitled to wear.

[Dirk Skene]

_Everything_ about kiltmaking was of great interest to this little fellow when we were visiting our daughter last week.

Beau-ti-ful baby

[Bob C]

Cats are an impediment to pretty much everything. There are two of them living in my house, under my wife's protection.

Were it not for her, I'd have a calico sporran. ;)

[kevinkinney]

Beeswax.


Age 12.
11 pounds.
Drops 2% of his bodyweight in fur daily.
Banned from the shop since 2002.

All my kilts live at work. He clashes with everything.

Kevin.

[Bugbear]

Cats are an impediment to pretty much everything. There are two of them living in my house, under my wife's protection.

One of my cats lives under my house, or should I admit trailer, and protects the space under there. They do a good job of keeping the scorpians under control, so they're helpful. However, I should probably get a spinning wheel and start making cat yarn. LOL! They're good farm cats though, barn cats I guess.

[Bob C]

One of my cats lives under my house, or should I admit trailer, and protects the space under there. They do a good job of keeping the scorpians under control, so they're helpful. However, I should probably get a spinning wheel and start making cat yarn. LOL! They're good farm cats though, barn cats I guess.

Wow. I'm surprised that a cat hunts scorpions. Not surprised that he'd WANT to, but surprised he has not been stung and perished.