a little too cool for cats, if you ask me. still, this entry could be the charter entry in my "mistakes" category...
this is again a blatant violation of the "year of selfish knitting". or is it? shuler and zooey are "my" cats, albeit noncustodial. and shuler turned ten this month, which means zooey is not far behind (although we don't know his actual birthday). so, using MORE than all of my feltable stash -- which included a large quantity of manos left over from the proust boots, some mountain mohair, various bits of noro, and some really crappy merino that i "spun", i got busy on this somewhat tweaked pattern from a knitlist archive.
it's important to say here that there was nothing about the pattern, or the picture that went with it, that indicated in any hard, fast way that the fulled cat basket would have sides that were at all vertical. did i do anything in my knitting to ensure that my basket would have vertical sides? no. did i just hope my basket would have vertical sides? yes.
i also didn't do exactly what the pattern said to do. nor did i use all the same yarn on the sides as i did on the bottom. i could go on here. but it's for cats. they don't even have color vision. they think sleeping in a cardboard box is okay.
so now they have a nice new warped disc with a bite out of it to sleep on, probably made out of eighty dollars worth of yarn and two weeks of my knitting life. i'm moving on. the funny thing is, i like this thing! i hope shules and zoo will, too.