{made} — Lilly’s pea-pod.
Lilly likes to change up her favorite spot all the time, and I’ve been wanting to make her a special cat bed for a while now to see if she’d use it… and to try and minimize the amount of grey hair around the house.
Instead of using 5 strands of yarn held together that the pattern suggests, I wanted to use up some thick & quick bulky yarn I had in my stash. I held two strands together and ended up close to the correct gauge… think I may have been about 1 inch larger than the small size in diameter, but that wasn’t too big of a deal.
I am glad I found a non-felting pattern, really wanted something I could wash when it got dirty. Plus, it worked up in about 3 hours which is great instant gratification!
I only did 5 repeats of row 18 for the side. Since I didn’t have a decorative yarn to use for the finishing row, I did a row in reverse single crochet around with only one strand of yarn to give the top edge some detail.
I used a size P (11.5mm) hook.
Lilly curled up in it right away, I think she likes it :)
Although, as soon as I got my camera she was a little camera shy…
Pattern is available as a free download on raverly here.
