Until recently, I had an all black cat named (naturally) Sheba.  Whenever I was stitching she would sit on the arm of the couch and try to catch the thread as I pulled it through the fabric.  My sewing machine was loated on the second floor and I one day I came home from work to find thread wrapped all around furniture on the first floor and up the stairs.  She had pulled a spool of thread off the machine and rolled it all around my townhouse wrapping everything in site!

Ah- the joys of being cat staff!  Nearly 12 years ago my bengal Nikita did nerarly the same thing.  I was working on a Hardanger "give us our daily bread".  It was a large project and rather complicated for me at the time.  I was tring to keep everything very neat and had the instruction book, cloth and thread balls in the plastic bag from the store.  I then stored this on a shelf in the extra bedroom- a place that was to be off limits to four legged friends.  One day I went to retrieve the project and found that Nikita had sneaked in and discovered my treasures and oh, what a tangled mess I found!  Over and around the bed rails was the purple perle- the blue made it down the stairs, cream was twined into the clothes I had hanging and the watercolor skeins weren't found for several hours.  I was so upset I couldn't work on the project for many months.  The finnished project hangs proudly in our bedroom now and Nikita pretends she doesn't notice it!

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