Beware of Cat

July 19th, 2009 |

Author: Eric

If you have pet, beware of leaving your needles out where they can get to them. I’ve discovered that cats are crazy about bamboo needles. They are like cat nip to them. I might as well be knitting with mice tied to my needles for all the attention it gets.

I mentioned this to to someone who works at the Gail Knits store and she said yes, beware of mixing cats or dogs and non-metal needles. My cat Max is all over me when I have bamboo out. The first hint was when I was first learning to knit and I was digging through a bag of stuff and pulled out a Clover circular that had a small swatch of practice knitting on it and set it down on the carpet.

I left the room for about 2 minutes, sitting at my computer to look up something, when Max comes proudly marching in with his prey: dragging the swatch still on the bamboo circular, trailing the yarn all the way back from my bedroom, through the living room to the dining room where the ball of yarn lay abandoned. I just laughed my head off, and he was so happy with his prize. So I bound off and cut off the swatch for him and rescued the needles for myself.

Here he is mauling his prize:

Max and his prey

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Then the other day I was starting my sampler for the Sweater Workshop book on the same Clover #8×16″ and he was right there, as the picture below shows.