{"id":17873,"date":"2013-04-18T06:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17873"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:45:28","slug":"cat-beds-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/cat-beds-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Beds Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you saw in a previous post<\/a>, I am back on the Cat Bed wagon. Some people had some good questions, so I thought I would gather up the information and put it in one place, to the best of my ability.<\/p>\n

\"Schnibbles\"<\/a>
Schnibbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kati asked “How large are the scraps you\u2019re stuffing? They look pretty big to me.” These are the size that I put in the cat beds.\u00a0 the little triangles are the ears off 2.5″ and smaller half square triangles, so you can get an idea of how big the shards are. I might be a bit crazy, but I really only throw away tiny schnibbles that really can’t be used at all.\u00a0 For the longest time I worried about tossing even these tiny shards away. They seemed like they could be used for something. I just didn’t know what. As I read some Victorian novels and ‘rag & bone’ men were mentioned, I kept trying to figure out what could be done with these shreds of fabric. Amanda saved me when she asked for these cat beds.<\/p>\n

\"Cat<\/a>
Cat Bed March 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One reader said “It\u2019s easy until I come to the stuffing the tube\u2026do you have any secrets to make it easier than having to put my arm into the tube up to my elbow to push the stuffing around? I am going to have to redo the second one because it is too stuffed\/firm.” My answer was “I just dump it in and then once it is as full as I want it (about 3\/4s full) I just kind of mush it around until it is ok. I think the cat will knead it to the cat\u2019s liking, so I don\u2019t worry too much about it except not making it too firm.” Amanda confirmed when she said “For the scrap pieces, I try to use nothing larger than an approximately 3\u00d73? square. If it is too big a scrap, then they are hard to dry thoroughly in the dryer. You can also you the strippy castoff pieces that are thin but long \u2013 those are okay and don\u2019t necessarily need to be cut down as long as they are thin. I think the best stuffing to use is leftover batting scraps \u2013 they dry really well, and make the bed nice and soft. But of course, cotton fabric pieces are always good too.<\/p>\n

For the issue about the tube \u2013 just cut it shorter! When you are sewing the \u201cside\u201d part of the bed onto the base, if it overlaps more than 5 inches, just cut the extra off. You don\u2019t want to have a big overlap because this does make it a pain in the booty to stuff.”<\/p>\n

For the short version of the Simplified Cat Bed Tutorial<\/a>, I am posting it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you saw in a previous post, I am back on the Cat Bed wagon. Some people had some good questions, so I thought I would gather up the information and put it in one place, to the best of my ability. Kati asked “How large are the scraps you\u2019re stuffing? They look pretty big … Continue reading “Cat Beds Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[137,376,355,105],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-bamqg","tag-cat-beds","tag-doing-good","tag-reuserecycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}