At Last, A Handmade Christmas Pressie I Can Show

Mum's cat, Lily, is very partial to lying out on her settee (see last photo in this post) so Mum has had to resort to putting an old towel down to stop Lily's incredibly long, incredibly white, and incredibly velcro-like fur sticking all over the seat pad.  Last time I was in Bristol, Mum was saying that the old towel doesn't look very elegeant on the settee and I suggested I make Lily her own little blanket to lie on.

 

Custom-made to fit the seat cushion (hopefully!!) this is cut out of a piece from an old cream wool blanket, bought at a jumble sale in April.  I blanket-stitched all round the edge in rinky-dink pink thread (to match Lily's nose and paws) and embroidered her name in one corner.  I wasn't too pleased with the embroidered name - although as it was done free-hand I suppose it could have been worse - so I gussied it all up a bit with adding a cat shape cut out of some tiny-flower-print calico cotton.  Here's hoping Lily will like her Christmas pressie, and won't have been reading my blog so that the surpise is spoilt!!  There are a whole lot of other handmade Christmas gifts I've made that I'd love to show but they will all have to wait until after the big day.

Comments

[Claire Mackaness]

How sweet. Knowing how much you like handmade and if your not able to visit chipping sodbury tomorrow. You would love the vintage and handamde fair taking place tomorrow (saturday)at the Elm Road community centre in Leigh on Sea. Over 60 traders including myself (Beautiful things by Claire Mackaness). Pop along and say hi

[Mum]

That is so beautiful. Lily will love it.

I think the embroidery is great.

Thank you Liz.

Mum.

[Maureen]

Don't let Lily see this blog page or she'll not be surprised at Christmas:-)

[Caroline]

White Maine Coon fur. The bane of my life. Your mum has my sympathy. Love the blanket BTW.

[Sheryl]

Before I read the post, I was just thinking how cute the little cat was and how pretty the name was. I'm sure the blanket will be a great hit!