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azurelunatic) wrote2019-05-11 09:04 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2019-05-11 09:04 pm
Garbage Quilt
Today's impromptu project: a cover for the cat cage.
Yellface is scheduled to get a spot of radiotherapy in a few weeks. She'll remain isolated while she cools down. To that end, we ordered a reasonably sized cat cage. Belovedest assembled it today. It's down in the basement.
It doesn't quite fit the litter box we thought it might (corner unit, covered). It does fit a low sided bowl thing (the one we got when we thought the pee spots outside the box were because she thought the covered box stinks). Unfortunately, we then discovered that Little Miss Filthy Bachelorette Cat doesn't deliberately pee outside the box, it's just that she doesn't always bother to sit down.
Cats.
So obviously the litter area in the cage needs a splash shield, so the entire basement doesn't get hosed down with radioactive cat piss.
Enter the Garbage Quilt.
Most of our old sheet/blanket collection is being used for other things -- there's a lot of making sure that Sewzb0t Parlor doesn't have a direct line of sight into the, er, more NSFW corner, for example. (We prefer to not expose our housemate to things they can't unsee.) But there were some smaller rags in my sewing bin.
"Let's see if I can see some of these together," I said, then disappeared into the depths of Sewzb0t Parlor, to emerge at intervals with a maniacal cackle and an increasing number of contiguous square feet of assorted cloth.
The thing is not pretty. The cloth is mostly on its last legs. There's no discernable pattern. The thread doesn't match any of the cloth except the underwear section, which is some of the most gonzo sewing I've ever done (it's a mostly straight piece with a slalom seam down the middle). None of the types of fabric match very well, except most of them are jersey knits. You can see through the purple section that used to be my favorite nightgown 15 years ago.
I called the project before I finished on account of dinner. It's fastened to the cage with magnets.
I love it already.
Yellface is scheduled to get a spot of radiotherapy in a few weeks. She'll remain isolated while she cools down. To that end, we ordered a reasonably sized cat cage. Belovedest assembled it today. It's down in the basement.
It doesn't quite fit the litter box we thought it might (corner unit, covered). It does fit a low sided bowl thing (the one we got when we thought the pee spots outside the box were because she thought the covered box stinks). Unfortunately, we then discovered that Little Miss Filthy Bachelorette Cat doesn't deliberately pee outside the box, it's just that she doesn't always bother to sit down.
Cats.
So obviously the litter area in the cage needs a splash shield, so the entire basement doesn't get hosed down with radioactive cat piss.
Enter the Garbage Quilt.
Most of our old sheet/blanket collection is being used for other things -- there's a lot of making sure that Sewzb0t Parlor doesn't have a direct line of sight into the, er, more NSFW corner, for example. (We prefer to not expose our housemate to things they can't unsee.) But there were some smaller rags in my sewing bin.
"Let's see if I can see some of these together," I said, then disappeared into the depths of Sewzb0t Parlor, to emerge at intervals with a maniacal cackle and an increasing number of contiguous square feet of assorted cloth.
The thing is not pretty. The cloth is mostly on its last legs. There's no discernable pattern. The thread doesn't match any of the cloth except the underwear section, which is some of the most gonzo sewing I've ever done (it's a mostly straight piece with a slalom seam down the middle). None of the types of fabric match very well, except most of them are jersey knits. You can see through the purple section that used to be my favorite nightgown 15 years ago.
I called the project before I finished on account of dinner. It's fastened to the cage with magnets.
I love it already.
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The hole in the unfinished quilt was right where the spray exited the cage.
The quilt is in the wash, so the sprayed edge doesn't contaminate Sewzb0t. Silver found some plastic sheeting to put in place for now.
Also she pulled down the felt on Alex's bedroom door, which we put there to muffle the sound of little paws going scrape-scrape-scrape as she knocked. (She doesn't like closed doors, and a previous owner declawed her.)