Meowdela

The long walk to feline.

What happens when you take your (slightly hungover) boyfriend along to a fabric store? Well, he inevitably wanders off and finds something of interest to proudly come back and show you. Good boy! When my dearly beloved brought me this piece of fabric and asked me to please make him a Mandela cat, I had my doubts. Mandela is more of a lion. But I did it and I must admit, it came out quite nicely.

Helveticat

What you can do with 2 paws, I can do with 4.

Helveticat taught herself to write. She can write better than a human, as she can do it with all four of her paws. Humans who can write with both their left and right hands are called "ambidextrous". There isn't a word for someone who can write with all four of their paws.

Helveticat once wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Catterbury. The Arch thought it was a human writing to him and decided that, even if he could read, he wouldn't read the human's scribbles. Then someone told him that Helveticat, a cat,  had written it. The Arch was so impressed that he declared Helveticat the patron saint of type, writing and ink.

The making of Helveticat. Floral tummy, so vogue.

Chairman Meow

I coined the term "freedom", not William Wallace.

Chairman Meow is the leader of the litter. He believes in a democratic society and leads his followers in singing freedom songs like: "I like dead mutts, I cannot lie". He was once arrested for singing "Poke her face" during a kitty rights rally. The song referred to a female mouse who had upset the litter with her catty remarks.

Lulu and the rabid rabbit

Don't touch me on my patches.

Lulu is very proud of her patches. They are her crowning glory. She uses Pantene to bring out their grey. Even though hairdressers say Pantene isn't good for you, you should buy their salon products, it seems to work for Lulu. Isn't she lovely?

Anywho, so Lulu once went up to the market to fetch a pale of tuna. On her way there she literally bumped into a rabbit. The rabbit had red eyes like rabbits do and it was frantically chewing on a dried carrot, which proved to be a very difficult task as he had no front teeth. When Lulu bumped into him, he started choking on the carrot. A kangaroo came out of nowhere and did the Heimlich on the rabbit. It worked and as he spat out the fatal piece of carrot, Lulu thought how lucky she was that 1) She didn't eat carrots and 2) She had all her teeth.

After the kangaroo disappeared back to where he came from, Lulu introduced herself to the rabbit. This was the right thing to do, as they had both shared a glimpse of mortality and so she felt akin to him. As she held out her paw to the rabbit, she saw that he was drooling. And mooing. And barking. And suddenly he pounced on Lulu and ripped off one of her patches.

Lulu was distraught and after she had her patch sewn back on by a potbelly pig, vowed to never speak to rabbits ever again.

Lambi

My mommy says I'm special.

Lambi lives on an office desk, where he contributes absolutely nothing to the business world. He is a Bambi/lamb cross, hence the imaginative name. He has dots on his sides like Bambi, but his head and ears look a little lamb and some people say they don't understand why he is a "he" if he has pink details. They say he is confused. I say he is special.

Roebels The Red

Hey, Lady!

If Roebels The Red was handy and not pawy, and if duct tape wasn't prone to get stuck in his fur, he would undoubtedly be the McGuyver of cats. If Roebels the Red's legs were long enough to be able to reach the brakes of a car, or if Kit spoke Cat, he would be the feline version of Knight Rider. And if Roebels the Red's world didn't spin after he had a shaken martini or if he had an umbrella that also doubles up as a bazooka, he would have been considered the James Bond of his species. 'Cause you see, Roebels is a tom cat, through and through, and he doesn't even have to wear Axe to have the girls purring after him.

Lila loves Oscar/Oscar loves Lila

Starry-eyed lovers

If Oscar and Lila had lots of kittens from another mother, or played in block-buster movies, they would undoubtedly be the Brangelina of cats. A hunk of a ginger and a delicate, white-furred beauty a purrfect couple do make!

Brooching the subject

Hahaha, you have me in stitches.

Pardon the pun, it was irresistible. I made this brooch for a friend of mine who really likes bunny wabbits. It's a first attempt, but I like the silhouette feel of it. I plan on doing more animal brooches and to refine them in the process. But for now I'm focusing mainly on the cats.

Scruffy

Most perculiar...

Elementary, my dear.

 Scruffy is a squirrel who can be described as the next Agatha Cristie. She loves solving and then writing about  mysteries that happen in the tree she lives in. Like that time a finch's tail feathers went missing and it it turned out that he was selling them for worms. Or that time when all the tree's leaves disappeared when it wasn't even autumn (turned out that a group of vigilante locusts ate them all). Everyone enjoys Scruffy's stories and her sunny disposition.

Mr Biggles and his unlikely friends

I don't eat my friends.

Mr Biggles likes to greet folks with a "Top of the morning to you!" eats marmelade on his toasted pigeon, has tea with his milk and frequents the pub. He doesn't, however, wear tweed, as he finds it scratchy.

As a true pacifist, Mr Biggles believes in not eating fellow beings that have fur. Scales and feathers are,  however, cool. Cats who only eat fish & food of the avian variety, are called pisceaviatarians, by the way.

Mr Biggles met his mice friends , Baron Squeeck and his mistress, Lady Peep, at a garden party in 1998. They have been inseparable ever since and Mr Biggles only ever has the urge to eat them when he's had too many G&Ts.

Naughty Fritz

My, Fritz, why are your ears so big?

Fritz has the biggest ears in all of kittydom. Ever since he was born, people have assumed he has superior hearing. Which is strange, because if  you, for example, have a big nose, people don't assume you can smell better.

So, truth is, Fritz's hearing is just as good or bad as any other cat's. But he embraces the assumption about his hearing and pretends that he can hear the gossip whispered by other cats in faraway cities, the plots dogs are planning in neighbouring countries and the talks amongst mice in foreign places.

Yes, Fritz makes all of these conversations up. He likes how his fellow cats take his word for it when he tells them what their faraway friends, foes or food are saying. The other felines in his town all but worship him. They lavish him with milk and kitty kibbles. All the tabbies adore him. You will too, even if he is a bit naughty. 

Meow there!

My first attempt

Small animals and bright colours make me happy. Unless you're a Goth or a realist, I'm sure you, too, will enjoy these bright little creatures I'm going to show you. I taught myself to sew and after a few trial-and-error attempts, managed to draw and cut patterns from scratch, one-by-one as the cute critters appear in my imagination...