We have three cats - Lucky Lou, Edison, and Juneau. Edison has the tendency to wake me up around 5:30 AM by walking on my face, and Lucky Lou thinks litterbox use is optional. I find both of these habits highly annoying, so I often refer to Juneau as "the good one."
Two days ago I finished the quilting on the central star of my mom's quilt. I decided to bring it over to show her before I finished anything else, to see if she liked the direction I was headed. I was going to visit her the next morning, so I carefully folded it and put it on the couch so I'd remember to bring it with me. Juneau promptly curled up on it and went to sleep. I laughed and thought, That's cute, it's not even done and it's cat-approved already.
The next morning I woke up and found her sleeping on the back of the couch near the quilt. And the quilt? Covered in cat vomit.
I was so upset that I just put the quilt in the basement. I couldn't even deal with it then. Last night I brought it back out to survey the damage. Luckily because of how it was folded only one corner of the back got stained. However, I needed to wash it, and I couldn't very well put it through the washer and dryer in its half-quilted, half-basted state. So I hand washed it and hung it in the basement to dry.
Today I'll inspect it in the bright sunlight. Hopefully all of the stains will come out. Otherwise I'm not sure what I'll do. I've already quilted through a big chunk of it...I'd hate to rip it all out and replace the entire back. I just really hope it all washed out.
This is the quilting I've done so far. My mom wanted all straight lines, so I hope she likes this.
Oh, and Juneau seems fine by the way - not sick at all. Honestly, why couldn't she have just jumped onto the floor to do that?
I've had a cat throw up on a quilt, but at least I was able to wash it! That's terrible!
ReplyDeleteLuckily the hand washing worked. I'd be so mad if it didn't!
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