Stopping kitties from tossing your pieces on the floor
10-08-2014, 06:38 AM
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Our cat also likes the pins. I have to be really careful to keep them put away from him. He has started chewing the fabric, but am starting to put everything away, now that he is in the house more with Fall-Winter Weather. Anything with quilting, he loves!! Mariah
10-08-2014, 08:08 AM
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My cat, Daisy, loves boxes! I have several shoe and computer paper boxes for her to choose from, when I am done for the day in m sewing room I put a few on top of my project for her. I have learned to store my thread and bobbins in cat proof containers. Thread bird nests are pretty but not salvageable.
10-08-2014, 09:01 AM
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I gave up and donated a cardboard cutting board to Seamus (he had pretty much trashed it already). When I leave the room, I open it over my table. He will never stay off the table, this just provides a barrier. I plan a whole day of cutting when my daughter is home so she can keep him busy. It is amazing how we tolerate things from our furry kids that we wouldn't have let our human kids do!!
10-08-2014, 09:35 AM
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My cat had a paper bag he would put "treasures" in. Usually anything I had been doing during the day. One time I could not find 3 yards fabric. Sure enough he managed to get it into his bag. His favorite thing was pearl necklaces. He hide my grandson's pacifier in his bag one time. I sure miss that cat.
10-08-2014, 10:33 AM
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A quilting friend of mine keeps her cats off of quilts on her longarm by putting pieces of tin foil across the quilt. The cats don't like the sound of the tin foil. So that may also work for keeping them off of your cut pieces as well.
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10-08-2014, 10:42 AM
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Don't let them chew and swallow leftover bits of thread or fabric! You may end up like a neighbor of mine whose cat kept choking, went in the a GI series and ended up with a huge operation to extract half-chewed-up stuff, and in addition to nice soft fabric they retrived little bits of plastic hockey players from one of the kid's games, and thread everywhere. Yuck!
10-08-2014, 11:40 AM
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I love them dearly....but facts are facts.
10-08-2014, 11:43 AM
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Don't let them chew and swallow leftover bits of thread or fabric! You may end up like a neighbor of mine whose cat kept choking, went in the a GI series and ended up with a huge operation to extract half-chewed-up stuff, and in addition to nice soft fabric they retrived little bits of plastic hockey players from one of the kid's games, and thread everywhere. Yuck!
10-08-2014, 04:03 PM
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I like this idea. When our DS was living with us, his cat decided that the quilt on my LA would make a great hammock. Boy, did she get a surprise when it collapsed beneath her. I use Red Snappers to hold my quilts, which also kept the quilt from being damaged too much, just some shredding on the end where it pulled out.
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