Tuesday 14 February 2023

Valentine's Special Crafting With Cats #29 ~ How We Made The Love Shroom ~ The Double Decker Cat Bed

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Thanks for joining us for our 29th Crafting with Cats segment. Mew know we have so much fun making all this cute and really fun stuff for feline enrichment, and we hope mew enjoy seeing it and/or making it too! 

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The Love Shroom


Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® The Love Shroom with Melvyn

What We Used:

2 x large cardboard boxes

glue gun + non-toxic glue

wadding

white felt squares

pale pink crushed velvet

grey felt

Loose pom poms in greys and pinks

White pom pom trim

sewing machine ~ scissors ~ pins

Optional cats ~ Fudge and Pandora


Let's get Started

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 1 - 4

1.  We used two large cardboard boxes.

2. First, we opened one box fully and cut off the top flaps.

3. Next, we rolled the cardboard to make it cylindrical.

4. Then we trimmed the bottom flaps, and cut vertically, so it made it easier when we attach the bottom in step 8.

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 5 - 8
 
5. This is how it looks when it's rolled and the edges glued together.

6. & 7. We checked the diameter before cutting a circle to fit inside the bottom.

8.  Next, we glued the bottom in place.

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 9 - 12

9. & 10. Fudge came to inspect the shroom for size, and gave all paws up to continue.

11. & 12. Then we drew a doorway and cut it out.

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 13 - 16

13. & 14. Using the second box, we measured for the mushroom top and made the outer rim approx 3" or 7.6 cm wider all the way around.

15. & 16. We cut it out and tried it on top of the base to make sure it was the right size.

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 17 - 20

17. & 18. Using our pale pink crushed velvet, and we placed the cardboard top on it, to make sure we had enough fabric to get under the rim once it's padded, so it will completely cover the cardboard when the top is attached to the base. So do make sure that your fabric is quite a bit bigger.  Mew can also add an extra layer to the cardboard circle to strengthen it.

19. & 20. And then we cut out lots of white felt circles in different sizes. We placed them on the cardboard, just to get the best pattern. 

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 21 -24

21. & 22. We pinned all the way around the cardboard circle on the fabric, as our white tailors chalk didn't show up and we needed a guide for the edge. And then we placed all the felt circles and pinned them in place before sewing with a zig-zag stitch on the machine. Mew could glue or hand sew at this stage.

23. All the felt circles are securely attached.

24. Next we used the wadding out of an old cushion and heaped it up on top of the cardboard circle.

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 25 - 28

25. We carefully placed the crushed velvet in place, and mew can see how much extra fabric was needed. We also tried to shape the wadding, so it was higher in the middle. Then we flipped the entire thing over and glued the crushed velvet in place, pulling it taut. Think of covering a chair bottom.

26. This is the finished mushroom top, we cut off any excess fabric underneath, but we also made sure that underneath portion of the rim was completely covered, so it looks like mushroom gills. 

27. & 28. We covered the entire base in a light grey felt and glued it in place.


Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 29 - 32

29. We snipped the felt edge like step 31 and glued it down. 

30. Next we cut out the door way leaving plenty of fabric.

31. & 32. We snipped the fabric back to the edge of the doorway and then folded and glued in place.

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 33 - 36.jpg

33. We used the remaining felt to cover the inside of the mushroom.

34. Next we got our small pom poms and began to glue them around the opening.

35. Pandora came to check on the P.A.'s progress and to make sure she wasn't slacking off! MOL

36. The pom poms look great! 

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® How We Made The Love Shroom Steps 37 - 40

37. We glued the mushroom top to the base.

38. Then we decided the top needed some pom pom trim.

39. Then we decided we had enough crushed velvet left to make a cushion.

40. And here's the Love Shroom finished. Isn't it cute?

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® The Love Shroom with Melvyn, Smooch and Fudge.

These three wasted no time at all, and as Smooch says, "Mew snooze, mew lose!" As he got there first! 


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What a totally fun project to make, all the cats love it and if mew watch the video to the very end mew'll see Fudge wanted Melvyn off the top, well,  just see for yourselves! MOL

Valentine's Crafting with Cats ©BionicBasil® The Love Shroom with Melvyn and Fudge

We've now moved it into the upstairs lounge, we swapped it with The Observatory for something different, and Melvyn has moved out of his glamping tent and into the shroom! MOL
 

And that furiends sadly brings us to the end of our 29th Crafting with Cats post, and we do hope mew liked it.

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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 bandana Melvyn is wearing next!

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11 comments:

  1. That is sooo cute! Happy Valentine's Day!

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  2. Oh, wow! That is just so much 'shroomy' fun! Esp when Melvyn and Fudge were having at it! MOL!!

    Happy Valentine's Day!

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  3. Fabulous love the mushroom Happy Valentine's Day xxxšŸ˜»♥️šŸ¾

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  4. I love that mushroom. Well done and I'll say it again. You're very talented.

    Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday and Valentine’s Day. Scritches all around and a hug to mom. ♥

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  5. That is the coolest mushroom - wow! Happy Valentine's Day all!

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  6. Wow! SO clever!
    Thanks for sharing at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-just-bit-more.html

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  7. Now we want our Mom to make us a Shroom! You guys have the bestest Mom! U R 2 Cute! We love you more than any candy heart could say. Keep being awesome! Purrs Marvelous Marv

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  8. That is the very best and wonderfully crafted beddie I have EVER seen. And gorgeous too!

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  9. Nicely done! We liked seeing the kitties enjoy it too, including the fussy part, lol!

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  10. That is really pretty, well done. Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us!

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