![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qTvisI_A09o/S735hn_nAJI/AAAAAAAAAHY/CwDjRu81jBA/s200/toy)
My sister-in-law volunteers at a local cat shelter. I wanted to get some cat toys for them, but the shelter doesn't allow toys with cat nip. Could you imagine 166 cats going wild on cat nip? Otherwise, I definitely would have bought quite a few of
these. They are so cute and look extrememly well made.
So, I decided to make some cat toys using
this pattern and
this pattern. I just used some yarn I had around the house, some jingle bells for the mouse's tail and some mylar windows from junk mail envelopes to make the sardines crinkly.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qTvisI_A09o/S4vifHZsTGI/AAAAAAAAADc/xJ-9ptB0wKE/s200/mouseback.jpg)
The mouse was super easy and worked up quickly. I wanted to make sure that the jingle ball was secured to the tail very well, so instead of following the instructions, I chained 15 stitches, then switched to a tiny hook (1.9 mm) to insert through the loop at the top of the bell, pull the yarn through and slip stitch. I then switched back to the size G hook and slip stitched back up the remaining chains and sewed the tail to the mouse.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qTvisI_A09o/S404NnOn6PI/AAAAAAAAAEU/f1D9hQZNYLM/s200/sardine.jpg)
The sardines were easy to make too, although there weren't many instructions for the tail. The instructions tell you to make a circle by crocheting in the round and then attach it to the sardine, but the photo didn't look like there was a circle hanging off of the sardine. So I finished off the circle leaving a long tail, folded the circle in half and sewed it along the edge so that I had a semi-circle. I then sewed the round edge of the semi-circle to the last round of the sardine. I hope the kitties like them :)
1 comment:
what lucky kitties they will be! Cute toys for them and very clever to reuse the junk mail! Cool!
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