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4.3 out of 5 stars

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Crafting with Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make with Your Cat

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     1594745250

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$12.07

Are your favorite sweaters covered with cat hair? Do you love to make quirky and one-of-a-kind crafting projects? If so, then it’s time to throw away your lint roller and curl up with your kitty!
Crafting with Cat Hair
shows readers how to transform stray clumps of fur into soft and adorable handicrafts. From kitty tote bags and finger puppets to fluffy cat toys, picture frames, and more, these projects are cat- and eco-friendly and require no special equipment or training. You can make most of these projects in under an hour—with a little help, of course, from your feline friends!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Unusual, but fun

By
Cold Blood Blazing “Uniporn”
, December 5, 2012

I never thought there would be a use for cat hair other than to cause sneezing and for it to cling to clothing. But this book sheds new light on it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

A little disappointed

By
Lauren M. Keifer
, August 19, 2013

At first this intrigued me since I am a handy crafter, and I like to try new things. First of all it’s difficult to get enough cat hair to make anything at all. I collected from all their favorite places where my cats “nest.” About a week into my collection I began hacking up hairballs. Plus I kept getting cat hair stuck on my uvula. I don’t know how cats do it. I managed to get enough fur to make a handy finger puppet, but my cats really could care less about it, plus it doesn’t really fit on their tiny cat toes. On the plus side, it did give me some creative energy to try something similar, and I was able to knit a sweater out of human eyelashes. It was pretty itchy, but at least it was something that was a one of a kind.

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Shear Fun!

By
Ninja Emery
, December 2, 2012

I found this book to be a lot of fun. My seven kitties did not. After I sheared the first two (Sleepy and Dopey), the other five were nowhere to be seen. They weren’t even hiding in the litter box. Luckily I got enough fur off the first two—plus what I found on the couch cushions and my good winter coat—to knit them both sweaters because, hey, naked cats just look horrible, you know? And they were shivering. Spitting, hissing, and shivering. But other than that, you should buy this book. It’s FUN!

6 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Amazing

By
pd0c
, July 17, 2012

I bought this book with the realization that I am not the only cat-hair-mad person out there, and wow, was I impressed!!! I used to try and sculpt the balls of fluff I collected whilst brushing my 26+ cats, but without this book’s direction I never quite managed to make anything of real beauty. I then spent a while collecting cat nail clippings and tried my best to integrate this, to no avail. For a while, I collected their feces and tried to use this as a pallet to attach everything to, but all I ended up with was something that resembled high-impact roadkill. Now with the help of this book, I’ve actually started shaving all of my cats so that I can eagerly create every last one of these unique designs. Who knows, I might actually be able to gain the skills to make that cat-hair wig for my daddy one day.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

What better way to celebrate the memory of the one you loved?

By
Alexandra Szarkowski
, November 14, 2012

My cat died nearly a year ago, but to me he lives on—on the sofa, in the vents, on my black clothes. Instead of being a pity-kitty, I spent the mourning period getting crafty! Now with the holidays around the corner, I’m all set: sweaters, tea cosies, and golf-club covers for the boys…it definitely doesn’t stop at finger puppets (though I made an ADORABLE nativity set). Thanks to Kayori, my dead cat is the gift that keeps on giving.

34 of 71 people found the following review helpful

Before finding this, I was cat-atonic

By
Erika L Mott
, February 16, 2012

Thank God! Before finding this beautifully crafted piece of literature, life was monotonous: I’d come home after a long day of arguing with birch trees to a large bowl of Ramen and a book of Sudoku. Now, my life has changed! I’m going out more, thanks to the increased confidence from my haute couture cat-hair sweaters and handbags. I’ve even started speed dating, and it’s great because I have something to talk about besides my Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I have 73 cats in my apartment, so I have a lot to work with, and I’m thinking of opening a store on etsy.