Helping paws

While working on a new baby blanket using Bernat Baby Blanket, Stormy, our male main coon cat, decided to try and help me crochet by pulling on the yarn like it was rope. Although this worked well for him, it didn't help to have to recrochet the same stitch a few times. When I took it away from him, Stormy tried to bite the yarn and found my fingers instead.

When I ran out of Bernat Baby Blanket yarn, I decided to do a little creative combining. I took some 3 ply yarn and combined it with two strands of pixie yarn. Smokey, our female main coon cat, decided that the pixie yarn ball would make a great toy. I was working away on the blanket and suddenly, my ball of yarn was rolling down the hallway with Smokey hot on it's trail, and the ball of yarn unrolling as it went.

Mom has been working on an afghan and got a box to put the squares that she had completed into. The whole point of putting the squares in the box was so the cats wouldn't lay on them. Did that stop our cats? No! Smokey climbed into the box, made herself comfortable and lay down for a nap on top of the squares.

Who said animals weren't helpful to your creative juices? Surely not someone with cats!