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Tuesday, 7 February 2023
**CRAFTING RERUN** Valentine's Special Crafting With Cats #27 ~ How We Made Catnip Heart Cookies
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Supurr Greetings Pawesome Pals
Thanks for joining us for a rerun of our 27th Crafting with Cats segment. Mew know we have so much fun making all this stuff for feline enrichment, and we hope mew enjoy seeing it and/or making it too!
If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Pageand see all our previous projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them. Plus we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.
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A selection of scrap pieces of felt in pale pink, hot pink, tan, white & red
Wadding/stuffing
Cotton thread in brown
scissors
pinking shears
BBHQ organic homegrown catnip
Let's get Started
1. Our selection of leftover felt from other projects
2. We just cut the largest size hearts we could from the fabric available.
3. & 4.Then we got our pinking shears ready and cut around the edges of all the hearts to give them a fun zig-zag edge.
5. We are ready to start sewing.
6. First topstitch the smaller heart onto the larger heart.
7. & 8. It should look something like this.Repeat for how many cookies mew are making, we made six.
9. & 10. Next topstitch the two larger hearts around the edge, leaving a small 2.5 cm or 1" gap for stuffing and catnip. Repeat for extra cookies.
11. & 12. Get your stuffing and catnip ready, then fill the heart cookies.
13. & 14. We always add the catnip first, then the wadding after. And mew should now have catnip heart cookies that look like this.
15. Stitch the gap closed.
16. And mew should now have a selection of uber epic Valentine's catnip heart cookies for your kitty!
The Finished Gift
The P.A. found a small box which she decorated with ribbon and some small wooden hearts that were leftover from our Valentine's Cottage project, and then she added some shredded paper and a small jar of our homegrown catnip with a fluffy pom pom stuck on the lid, and this is our finished gift, isn't it epically epic?
As mew can see, once the cookies were ready, they did cause a mini-riot, Smooch wanted them all, Melvyn tried to grab one, Fudge came along and ruined that! MOL
Yesterday Fudge literally sat/lay over the box to stop anypawdy else getting any, and this morning the P.A. found catnip cookies everywhere, so there'd been a bit of a pawty during the night.
The B Team want to know, which colour catnip cooking is your favourite?
And that furiends sadly brings us to the end of our 27th Crafting with Cats post, and we do hope mew liked it.
Here are the links so far to our Valentine's Crafting with Cats:
We've got one more crafting post for mew next week, and we know mew're going to love it!
We'll be back tomorrow with the BBHQ Midweek News, so drop by to see what we've been up to this week, and find out which Valentine's bandada Melvyn is kicking off the lurve season with!
We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned. By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and stafffrom and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from the use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.
That's a truly EPIC Valentine's gift for any girl cat or boy cat. I bet homegrown catnip smells gooder than the nasty store stuff my momma buys. Love, Dori
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That is awesome. You are super talented
ReplyDeleteThat's a truly EPIC Valentine's gift for any girl cat or boy cat. I bet homegrown catnip smells gooder than the nasty store stuff my momma buys. Love, Dori
ReplyDeleteThis IS truly awesome. My mom doesn't have a sewing machine-- and she has two more feet at the end of her arms, not hands! Her is useless with sewing.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty and you're so talented.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day. Scritches to the kitties and a hug to mom. ♥
Those are da bomb!
ReplyDeleteThey are so pretty.
ReplyDeleteFantastic, those are so cool and it looks like the kitties really enjoy them!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely another great idea to make.x😻♥️🐾
ReplyDeleteThose are epically epic, mew guys! We LOVE them!
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