Since I just quilt for myself, and I don’t have a way to isolate my long arm I just accept the fact that cats will be cats. If I give a quilt, I let them know it comes from a neat freak that happens to have cats, and the quilt has been washed and placed in a cat free place. When I’m done with a quilt I roll it up and place it in a pillowcase and store it in a closed closet that my cats don’t have access to.