fun fur kitten bed!

[dooney]

I found the coolest fake fur at wal-mart of all places, and I knew I had to make Rob a bed. The fur is short-ish blue with dots of green that are longer. If you smooth it out it almost looks like stripes. I couldn't figure out how to put the bed together at first, so I had a pile of fake fur on the living room floor for a while and Rob loved it immediately. He would be playing with us and then disappear and we'd find him sleeping in the pile of fur.
Here's the finished bed - I couldn't get Rob to leave it alone, so he's modeling again.

and a top view -

[Vanessa Cyanide]

OMG that is so cute! It looks like the kitten is being eaten up by a sea annenome (sp)...too cute!!! It turned out very nice, but it could be the cute kitten...

[lamamarco]

OMG!!! That is the cutest bed... and I love your cat, which is suprising because i normally don't like cats. I need to make my dog a bed like that.. maybe not out of fun fur... he would think it is  a toy...

[natashafatale]

That is the cutest thing I've ever seen! (except for my own cats, of course) I bet he loves it because it reminds him of his mom!

[RosiePosie]

That's awesome! Your kitty is soooo cute!
I want a kitten *pouts*

[dooney]

i should stop letting him model for me, so i can get comments on my projects rather than my kitten.

[jungrrl]

Here's another...

omg how teeny is that kitten!!  I have two ginormous boys and a girl with some junk in the trunk..  I haven't had littles for a while


Anyway,  I've made two fun fur/fabric beds for my cats (somehow I never got around to the third!)  and they're just big pillows! I couldn't get the little edge.  That's so awesome! 

[dooney]

omg how teeny is that kitten!!  I have two ginormous boys and a girl with some junk in the trunk..  I haven't had littles for a while

He's got HUGE paws. I'm afraid of what he's going to look like when he grows up. He's about 6½ weeks now.

Anyway,  I've made two fun fur/fabric beds for my cats (somehow I never got around to the third!)  and they're just big pillows! I couldn't get the little edge.  That's so awesome!

It was a pain in the butt. It all started easily. i made a big cylinder with all the good sides facing in and left about 6" open. That was easy. Then I turned it inside out and folded the sides down to make the kitty bed shape. There has to be an easier way to do this, but I hand-sewed the tube for the sides shut THROUGH MY 6" OPENING so the stuffing wouldn't all fall down into the pillow part, then I stuffed both parts and hand-sewed it shut.
Next time, I think I'll make a ball and squish it to a pancake shape with more stuffing around the edges than in the middle.

[swalsh]

He's got HUGE paws. I'm afraid of what he's going to look like when he grows up. He's about 6½ weeks now.

Is he polydactyl (looks like he has thumbs)? It's a genetic trait most common on the east coast. I had 2 poly-cats growing up and the "double paws" as we called them were so adorable.

[dooney]

no, he's not. we thought he might be cause he looked funny but we looked closer and he's normal.