Cats and Yarn

Licorice rarely plays with my yarn, whether I am knitting with it or not. However, once in a while, she sneakily creeps under my chair and chews through the strand I am using. Then I could kill her. I have learned to be aware of he when I sit down to knit.

Higs, Katherine

Cats want attention--they really don't give a tinker's damn about the yarn. Haven't you noticed they will sit on your keyboard (musical or computational) or on your book or newspaper if you show "too much" interest in it, and not enough in them? :)

Georgia

My cat is well trained he never touches any yarn i work with ,,,,, but he loves my closet with sweaters , he silently opens the door and slides in ,,, into Wool Heaven ,,,,, also when i am not home, and he is unhappy , any sweater of mine can make him roll up and purr .. mirjam

Mine ALWAYS sits on whatever i read ,,,,,, now here is my trick i read one book and have second open next to the one i read ,,, cat sits on one only !!! mirjam

I have three cats and only two of them play with my yarns. Gator will sit on what I am knitting making it difficult to turn the work at the end. But Gator is now 14 and he's not going to change. Dakota is the yarn chewer. I've managed to stop this - to an extent - by keeping my working yarn in a basket with a lid and propping the lid open just enoough to pull the yarn out as needed.

Yes they do, but one of ours likes to play with the strand I'm knitting with because it's moving. Or a circular needle.... She leaves the skeins and knit pieces alone except for taking a nap on them. Only wants to capture the moving yarn.

sue

My three even "help" me block items. Apparently, the smell of damp wool is intoxicating!