Crafting With Cats ~ Part II ~ We Made A Supurr Hero's Cape

Welcome to

Supurr Caturday Greetings Pawesome Pals

Thanks fur joining fur us fur Part II of our Crafting with Cats segment.  If mew'd like to see our previous CWC post click here and learn how to make Merlin's Wizard Hat.

Sorry we're a little late, we did want to post this last Caturday but the P.A. just ran out of time. Oops! MOL

So my crafty-pawed comrades are mew ready to become caped crusaders?

What We Used:

 Felt sheet x 1 in a colour of your choice

Felt sheet x 1 in a contrasting colour of your choice

Silky fabric approx 14" square [or 35cm] in a colour of your choice

Scissors

Pins

Tailors chalk

Needle & Thread fur hand stitching or a sewing machine if mew have one

A cat collar ~ quick release

Optional cat fur snoopervising and general assistance

Are mew ready?

1.  Cut your square of fabric, approx 14" is good

2.  Quickly iron on a low heat setting

3.  Pin hem all the way round

4. Close up of hem

Basil furry kindly offuring his expert sewing skillz.

5.  Sew the hem all the way round either by hand or on a machine

6.  It should now look like this [press again to flatten seams]

7.  Place felt and collar on square to measure width of collar

8. Cut felt strips and sew together to make the collar channel

9.  Put onto the square, pin and sew

10. It should now look like this

And like this on the front.

11. Take the remainder of the felt square and cut out your emblem, we chose a shield

12. Place on square and check placement and sizing

13. Take contrast felt square and cut out your letter or logo

14. Pin letter to shield and sew 

15. Pin shield to main square and sew

16.  It should now look like this

17.  Thread collar through the channel and make a ruffle 

18. Mew now should have your furry own Supurr Hero Cape - WOO HOO!

and in only 18 simple steps, how amazingly pawesome is that!!?? MOL


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We hope mew have no purroblems understanding the step by step destructions, howeffur if mew do, purrlease leave us a comment and we'll help anyway we can.

***only wear under strict purrental supurrvision fur safety reasons***

**We only wear ours fur brief photo shoots**

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[FYI just in case mew're wundering, the P.A. doesn't use patterns, she just thinks of something and makes it up as she goes along. But we will tell mew this, she did go to fashion school school fur 2 years many eons ago, but she really taught herself to sew when she about 4 years old on her grandmothers manual Singer machine. Though she doesn't really do much sewing these days, she used to make evening gowns and hand-bead them. She makes curtains too, and even reupholsters furniture when required.] 

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And here's our furry own Supurr Smooch ready by the door to leap....no bound... no fly at a moments notice to do whateffur, whereffur, wheneffur because HE CAN!  Jeez what guy!

 Smooch said, "Smoke me a kipper and I'll be back fur lunch!!!"

Parsley said that he wanted to try the Supurr Hero cape because he's known among the CosPlay community as Supurr Sauce, how could we deny him!

Then young Fudge said, "Supurr Sauce, can I get a supurr cape like yours and some of that pawesomely fabulous supurr hero cologne mew're wearing?"

Sauce looked at him and said, "Dude mew're not old enough to fly and no, mew can't wear my signature scent."

Fudge said, "But it's so cool, I really, really want one because it's so pawesome and I could be The Fudginator and smell just like mew!"

Yep we don't think the wurld is quite ready fur The Fudginator just yet! MOL

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And that furriends furry sadly brings us to the end of our second Crafting with Cats post, we do hope mew liked it, and feel free to share your crafty pics and ideas on our Facebook page at:

Bionic Basil & The B Team @Facebook

And if there's anything mew'd like us to make, leave a comment and we'll do our best.

We'll be back on the morrow with our usual Sunday Selfies Selection and hope to see mew then!

Bestest crafty purrs

Basil & Co xox

Disclaimer:

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 staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created and used under paid licence www.canva.com and www.pizap.com

Crafting With Cats ~ Part I ~ How We Made A Wizards Hat

Welcome to

Supurr Caturday Greetings Pawesome Pals

Finally after a bazillion months, we're here with our furry furst crafting with cats post. Now we know it's not video, but still it's better than nothing! MOL MOL 

So today my crafty-pawed comrades we're going to make a wizards hat, yep mew heard me right, a wizards hat, because we all need a little magic in our lives.

Let me just tell mew a little of how this came about.  A few weeks an older tuxedo kitty called Merlin was listed on the Burton Joyce Cats Rescue page, now his case was a little bit different as he was still living with his daddy... howeffur his daddy was having to move and unfortunately couldn't take Merlin with him.  But as luck would have it one of the P.A.'s friends saw him on the website and she drove miles and miles and miles to get him and give him a new furever home, how truly pawesome is that?  Epically so! 

Anyhoo, so as Merlin was settling into his new home we thought it'd be a really nice idea to send him a little surprise gift, so we made him his furry own twinkly magical wizarding hat.

We are still MOL-ing when we look at it, it just really tickles us, sorry we don't know why it just does!

So as this is our furry furst post, mew must bear with us while we find our sea-legs and get the formula right.

What We Used:

Felt sheets x 2 in a colour of your choice

Felt sheet x 1 in a contrasting colour of your choice

Scissors

Needle & Thread or Sewing Machine

Non toxic fabric glue

Sequin embellishments

1.  lay felt on flat surface

2. fold

3. fold again and then cut in a slight curve.

repeat steps 1 - 3 with remainder of felt square

4. mew should end up with 2 pieces that look like this

5. put both pieces together and sew along the straight edge

6. this is what it should look like

7. open it up flat, and then roll into a hat shape and test sizing on nearest available cat - I, Basil was the model fur this, sadly the P.A. couldn't take a picture at this point because she doesn't have that many arms.  Trim off any excess to make your hat the purrfect fit fur your kitty.

8.  Sew up the straight edge to end up with this.




9. get your next piece of felt and draw around the cone to make sure the brim will be a purrfect fit

10. next measure the width of the brim and cut, so you have a donut shape

11. sew the two pieces together

12. cut out half moons with contrasting felt and glue to hat.  Glue on star sequins and mew're done. Mew have your furry own magical wizarding hat.

Now mew could use endless decorations, like curly pipe cleaners with little plastic spiders on etc... but just remember, only wear under purrental supurrvision fur safety reasons, OK?

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We hope mew have no purroblems understanding the step by step destructions, howeffur if mew do, purrlease leave us a comment and we'll help anyway we can.

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A short while later.... Et voila, meet Merlin the Wizard modelling his rather cute hat! 

Doesn't he look tres magnifique? 

So now Merlin is living with his new mum, Alice, we just love a happy ending and appurrently his magical abilities have increased exponentially since taking delivery of the hat - sorry Aunty Alice - OOPS!!! MOL

And that furriends brings us to the end of our furry furst crafting with cats post, we do hope mew liked it and if mew decide to make one, we'd love to see it.

Feel free to post your pawesome crafty pics on our Facebook page at:

Bionic Basil  @Facebook

And if there's anything mew'd like us to make, leave a comment and we'll do our best.

We'll be back on the morrow with our usual Sunday Selfies Selection and hope to see mew then!

Bestest crafty purrs

Basil & Co xox

Disclaimer:

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 staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created and used under paid licence www.canva.com and www.pizap.com