Category: Cats
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Jade Cat Claw
Green Cat Claw. A bluish-green to black mixture of fine-grained nephrite jade and coarse-grained amphibolite with minor serpentine and microscopic magnetite octahedra. This odd stone comes from Victorville, CA in the Mojave Desert and is not a typical California jade. Strictly speaking, the coarser-grained dark material isn’t “jade” at all, though the mineralogy is the same. …
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Rainbow Lion Again
Rainbow Lion got another makeover. I removed all the metal ornaments. On the blanket, I kept the shisha mirrors but replaced the copper spirals and glass beads with fluffly double tassels. He finally feels “right”. He is light, bright, and cuddly now that he’s not weighed down with metal and glass.
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Fabric Cat Mask Pattern
I recently posted about my Feral Black Cat Mask made from cotton fabric. Here’s the white version, for which I shortened the pattern so it covers a bit less of the face. Snowball the Shelter Ghost Mask is made from undyed 60%hemp/40%cotton muslin, a single layer of cotton batting, and a backing of unbleached cotton muslin. This…
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Black Cat Mask
Feral Black Cat Mask is quilted, embroidered, and embellished with black steel wire ornaments. Buttonhole stitch binds the eyeholes and outside edges. Made from black cotton fabric (front and back), cotton batting, quilting thread, and #8 pearl cotton embroidery thread. Entirely handstitched except for the ties, which are machine stitched. 8.5″ x 6″, excluding ornaments…
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Letting in the Light
I’ve been sidelined by illness for a couple of weeks, but am back at work now. I looked for ways to restore balance around the house, and decided to cut a window in the door to my studio. I keep the door closed because some of my more primitive cats will spray and wreak all kinds of…
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Healing Impy
Impy, our seven year old “Black Cat #1” , got very sick a couple of weeks ago. He has already used up several of his nine lives – he was a rescued stray who had lived outside for several months before we trapped him in 2003. He arrived with an abscessed bite wound on his shoulder that needed surgery, and…
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