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Cro-chat (or Crochet Your Cat a Toy)

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Cro-chat?  A poor attempt to combine French and English.  Crochet (also French I imagine) and chat (cat in French).  No, we’re not crocheting a cat.  But, if you have a cat as pretty as Milo, you’ll want to crochet something for him as clever as this simple toy designed by the human he owns, Jamey, over at Dabbles and Babbles.

If you don’t happen to have 27 extra toilet paper cores, just let me know.  I’ve been saving them to make (noncrocheted) firestarters for my son’s backyard firepit.  Even I won’t crochet dryer lint!  But, I’ll be crocheting a couple of these little fun things for Precious who recently lost her 12 year old mate, Bazel.  I’m extremely allergic to kitties, but I do enjoy brief visits with them.  Precious and Bazel belong to my dear friend Debbie and were named by her late son Billy and my daughter.  Precious’ real name is far longer than the tail on this cat toy!

These are simple, quick, and just adorable kitty toys.  Make one for a kitty today!

Comments

  1. Cute idea! I have bells… problem is, is that I have super industrial rolls of TP that I have taken to buying from Sam’s club. In the long run, they’re around $10.oo cheaper. BUT! All is not lost here. I usually save wrapping paper tubes. Always needing them for something! I could cut some of those down… Now to keep the dog from taking off with it! He steals their toys from pure jealousy! You know, Jd! I can sure get lost on your website here. Only it’ll defeat the purpose of cleaning out my Email box! Already I checked out a few crochet goodies that are posted here. One lead me to another, then another….

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