I finished the knitting for Dotty a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to let Fiona give the finish product a review before I posted about it.
This project is kitty approved!
Pattern: Dotty Cat Bed by Kelp/Kelly Porpiglia
Yarn: Cascade 220 in purple, green, and gray
She’s a small kitty (5.2 lbs when we found her, maybe 7-8 lbs now) so I only cast on 192 stitches.
It fits her perfectly!
She’s also really taken to it, which delights me. I put it next to our bed, so she’d have a nice place to sleep. She had been trying to sleep at our feet, but we would kick her accidentally so it wasn’t a good situation. This is much better, and she’s actually started going to her Dotty bed of her own accord.
I think it also really helps that she can use it as a place to sit while she watches birds out the window.
I messed up on the pattern a little bit, so it’s more like squares than like dots, but Fiona doesn’t care.
I think we’re both really happy with how it turned out!
19 responses so far ↓
josiekitten // October 21, 2009 at 3:13 pm |
Wow! I love your kitty bed. The only trouble is, my cat’s now spied it and wants one for himself! Fiona is gorgeous!
Sara // October 21, 2009 at 3:35 pm |
awwww. so sweet! i should make a bed for my cats but they are considerably larger than yours and i know they’d just end up on my bed anyway.
Jacey // October 21, 2009 at 4:10 pm |
It looks great! I’ve had this in my queue for a while. How long did the knitting take you?
turtlegirl76 // October 21, 2009 at 6:16 pm |
Love it! I need to make one for the boys. They fight over the Kitty Pi. It’s probably time I made another one for them to fight over.
pdxknitterati // October 21, 2009 at 7:24 pm |
That’s really cute! I’m afraid to knit a bed for Mookie, because she sleeps wherever she wants. The bed would go unused, and I would have used all that knitting time that could have gone to something else…
Right now she loves a box that was left in the dining room. She’s always in it. So my son wrote “CAT” with an arrow that points to where her face always peeks over. Funny.
Dana // October 21, 2009 at 8:04 pm |
Fiona is gorgeous, and the bed is really nice! You did a great job on it!
Bridget // October 21, 2009 at 8:19 pm |
What a great kitty bed! Fiona looks pretty happy all the way around.
I should give this a try sometime …
Guro // October 22, 2009 at 2:16 am |
Lucky Fiona! The cat bed looks wonderful!
pinry // October 22, 2009 at 6:54 am |
what a perfect cat bed, and a very prettycat too …
Andi Pants // October 22, 2009 at 1:38 pm |
I actually like the squares better than the dots. The bed looks really cozy.
Walden // October 23, 2009 at 12:06 am |
Looks wonderful and most importantly Fiona seems to love it!
Holly // October 24, 2009 at 7:23 pm |
Very nice! I made a cat bed once, but neither cat really took to it. And it was too floppy! Yours is much better!
samantha // October 24, 2009 at 8:45 pm |
wow, I love it! If only my cat would sit in somehting other than a peach box. Or on my jacket.
whitney // October 25, 2009 at 8:58 am |
Fiona is SUCH a gorgeous kitty! Lucky her, to have such a nice cat bed, too. We did the same thing (although not with handknit, felted cat beds), putting cat beds near our bed, because we kept kicking our boys.
katnap // October 25, 2009 at 12:25 pm |
Omg what an adorable kitty! She looks so content in her bed. Makes me want to knit one for my kitty too.
brokeknits // October 27, 2009 at 10:28 am |
So sweet!
hobbiness // October 28, 2009 at 12:28 pm |
It is so beautiful! The Queen’s bed:) I should make one for my cat too.
elinasingh // October 30, 2009 at 1:25 am |
She really seems to like her bed! Mine tend to like our bed more than their own…
flowergirlknits // November 2, 2009 at 11:16 am |
Love the cat bed – so pretty! That Fiona is one lucky, lovely kitty.