Being a crazy cat lady is not always easy but the benefits far outweigh any negative side effects. Such as the difficulty wearing black since it is a known magnet for cat fur is totally balanced by a 9 pound purring heat compress that will not leave your side when you feel bad or sad. ( I steadfastly refuse to talk about the fact that I currently have a “mystery yacker” who is leaving me unsavory piles of cat-hork around my house only to be found at the MOST inopportune times- the struggle is real folks)
Moving right along……..
Today I am excited to be partnering with Ink and Arrow fabrics to bring you some Crazy Cat Lady fun with their new collection Cat’s Meow! This collection along with the others from Ink & Arrow have a bit of hidden fun as well, making your fabric all that more adorable. 
This is going to be pretty simple.. I have 4 half yard packs of Cat’s Meow to give away.. I will be be making it even sweeter by adding some always fashionable BadAss swag so that you are then promoted to BadAss Crazy Cat Lady status!
What I ask of you is this. Leave a comment here, tell me something about your cat adventures that will make me feel better about mine! I would also like you to pop over to the Ink and Arrow Facebook Page and leave them some love thanking them for the giveaway, totally remember to mention BAQS 🙂 so we can do this more often!
Want to feel even better about new fabric? At SPOOL for as long as this collection lasts we will be donating a DOLLAR from each yard sold to animal charities and rescue. Doesn’t that feel good? My supply of this fabric is already dwindling so if I am out please check with your local quilt shop to see if they are carrying it. Remember that shopping local keeps your money in your local tax base!
COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED AND OUR WINNERS HAVE BEEN PICKED.. Congrats to the 4 who won!
I have a kitten and 16yr old cat. The kitten is my helper. Haha. Always plays with the scraps. Love him
I have two “rescue” kitties. My orange tabby, Casey Joe came to us because my daughter found him under the porch of an empty house. The other, Finleigh, I rescued from a nasty person who did not want her because she was not a purebred. One fun fact is that even though I am 50+, these are my first fur babies because I am allergic to cats! They both are the most lovable creatures you would ever want to meet and a stuffy nose is a small price to pay for the joy they bring to our family. I have definitely been converted to Cat Lady status!
I do have to close the door in my sewing room and keep my little Finleigh out. She absolutely loves to sit and watch the needle on my machine. The problem is that she tries to swat at it!
Let me tell you about Bear, my black cat. His Mother was a street walker, no need to elaborate on this, however! We saved Bear from the same life, however it’s in his blood. At 7 months old and in the middle off a snow storm he made a run for it. The escape wasn’t noticed for a few hours, tracks were covered. We were panicked, searched everywhere, put his litter box on the outside steps and hung posters. He was out on his own for 5 days before returning on his own. ( when he felt like it, when he was ready….cats are like that). He still tries to make a run for it whenever anyone comes in or goes out of the house. Many times he has made it out and then the chase is on……I heard once a runner, always a runner! 98% of the time he is content to lay around in the window and sleep but when that door opens, it’s game on!
My Thundrr loves to lay on top of my sewing machine while I am sewing. He also likes to rearrange blocks that I have laid out.
My kitty, Dustbunny, always enjoys laying on top of my blocks as I am arranging them on my table.
Love this fabric line. And love your plan to donate for the animals.
Four cats share our space. One likes to sleep on top of the china cabinet. She leaps,from a desk to get up there then “walks” her way partly down the side to leap down again. They all try to help me sew in one way or another.
I miss our dearly departed fur children. We would like to get more right now but our oldest has allergies and asthma, so we’re trying to figure out a way to do it without having to choose amongst our children. When we do, rescue kitties, here we come!
We have four cats, one of which is a big (17 lb), jet black Manx. We got her from a local rescue when she was 9 weeks old, and she is the sweetest cat… Except for her poop. OMG that cat has the stinkiest, most God-awful poop in all of cat-kind. We’ve even been to the vet about it. She’s perfectly healthy. We’ve changed her food. NOTHING helps. She seriously clears out the whole downstairs. It’s AWFUL.
I wasn’t looking for a cat, but on a trip to PetCo, to buy some dog food, there were two white sister cats in separate cages, whose owner had recently passed, and they were hoping to get them adopted together. One cat was really friendly, coming up to the front of the cage and getting the attention of everyone who would stop and look. Her sister was terrified, facing the rear corner of a different cage, and devastated to be separated from the only other being she had known. A couple wanted to adopt the friendly one, Gabby, but didn’t want the sister, whose name at the time was “Gary”. I jumped in and told them we would take them both, because I couldn’t let them be separated. Gary was renamed Babs, and she hid in the house for three months, rarely seen. Now they are both Instagram hams, and are happy again, living together for the rest of their lives. Leaving piles of fur on the sunroom sofa, and clawing the shit out of my ottoman.
While my husband (of 41 years) & I were dating, he’d kiss me goodnight on the front steps. My cats, Nigel & Percy loved to climb up his pants legs. Since he was tall & thin, the cats must of thought he was a small tree, especially when he wore brown cordoroy!
Snickers, is my Earnest Hemingway cat with 7 toes. Some how she has been able to use her “opposable thumbs” to open her cat treats to eat (and share with the other cat)and other extraordinary feats. Kiska is MY resident hacker! Gotta love it when Hubby finds it in his bare feet while heading to the bathroom in the morning! Howels of outrage commence followed with snickering by me….quietly, of course! Both of the beasts (the cats0 manage to walk off with assorted sewing tools like my bodkin and Snicker’s favorite, misc flash drives for my embroidery. Seem to find them every where! A cat lady, I am! (Who just happens to quilt!) Would love some cat print fabrics!
Ever have to bathe your cat in peanut butter? Perhaps she deserved it- if she had been earning her keep the hubby wouldn’t have had the bright idea to put out a sticky trap for the mouse in the basement. Let’s just say, after an unearthly howling, a jumbo jar of Skippy, a nakey chubby lady in the bathtub with said feline- they both learned a valuable lesson. And I have a chance to win some Cat Fabric!
Hi Maddie! Our cat, Kiki, is obsessed with watching tv. This is a new thing that happened when we replaced our old tv with a fancy new one. She sits in front of it and if what’s on the screen is really interesting, she stands and bats at it. All tv is now watched with a life sized cat as part of the show.
I have a 19 year old cat. She loves to try and mooch food from anyone who is eating. Her name is moochie.
HELLO, between Kitty’s right now> and need another for sure! Neat fabrics! Left “Ink+Arrow” a note. Thanks for sharing!
I am a certified cat lady/cat lover. We have 7, all of them rescues. Our two newest additions are from Greece. Yes, the country. When we brought them back, I knew I had gone over the edge into cat crazidom. The youngest of our bunch, Kassie from Greece, LOVES to climb my design wall, so I have to carefully fold it up each evening (and lose some of the design) or I get tiny claw prints in the material. She is my ninja cat with super climbing skills.
I love these stories! My cat, Catzilla, was found as a teeny kitten in the delivery area of a resort hotel. My daughter brought her home to me. She lives up to her name most of the time, but has learned that we all are “a soft touch” aka suckers, and she will purr and sit sweetly at the bottom of the stairs, as my husband, son and I come down, at different times, in the morning. She is always trying to convince each of us that she is in the last throes of starvation. It works , every time! When not eating, she loves to sit on top of my sewing machine, daring me to move her! I love her to pieces!
We have an orange boy at our house named Butterscotch. He was a birthday present for my son who nicknamed him “the fun machine.” He’s an awesome cat!
I am moving into a new neighborhood and every cat I see I tell it we are going to be friends. Once the move is done I am going to feed all of the wandering cats and will eventually trick one into sticking around my house solely!
My 16 year old black mane coon loves to hop on my lap, turn around and put his bum in my face so he can head butt my wine or my candy crush game…
My cat Apple, always sits on my lap to watch the sewing machine. She gets very annoyed when I need to move around the room for ironing, cutting, etc.
If I have a cat sitting on me, I sometimes don’t get up to answer the phone, even if it is one of my children calling.
Our dear Sophie passed two years but she was my loyal quilting companion- always giving all of my fabric the “touch” test
My cat Callie is a Calico and is scared of her own shadow! She was a wild kitten so not real friendly to most people except me. Where I go she goes. She loves sleeping in my sewing room and if I do not have a quilt on my Avante I put a piece of fabric so she can sleep on it. Sometimes in the middle of the night she will lay on my chest and take her paw and reach under the cover to let me know she wants to be petted. It would be OK but I am on oxygen and the extra weight of this fat cat doesn’t help me breathe. She likes going outside and brings me presents like lizards, baby rabbit which I saved, moles and once a snake. All I did was scream. Scared the cat! Yes, the hair and hair balls are unsightly and I keep rollers in each room to pick up the hair. I get my hubby to pick up the hair balls! He is so good to me.
My Black cat Princess loves to bat at my Iron’s cord but more often is interested in the scraps of fabric, I tied one into a bigger than cat sized mouth and with parachute cord in the middle have a sewing room themed toy for her to be distracted by when I am cutting fabrics. Or is it the other way around hmmmm was that a ploy to get the huu man to play with her??
My Abby Gail is the one I rescued from a busy intersection when she was 4 weeks old. She is now 3 years old and has given me tons of grief. I was going to foster her and then find a home; but, she turned out to be half wild and I felt she would not be a great fit for families with children and I worried that she’d be thrown out into the streets because of her personality. Let me give an example, on supervised visits to the great outdoors, she caught 4 gophers! She is extremely energetic and if she doesn’t get energy drained, she can get into some terrible mischief including attacking her human (me). In spite of her quirks, I adore her. (My other cat, Gracie, is a tripod I adopted from a rescue organization) and is extremely normal for a cat.
My cat like loves my fabric and craft room. Of all the places she could hang out in the house she picks that one room. No matter how many times I shoo her out, it never fails every time I walk by she sitting on my stash of charm packs or fat quarters! She even has the audacity to meow at me as if saying “Hi Mom” as I pass by! Needless to say the fur will be removed before I use it. 🙂
My female cats are fascinated with the sewing machine – they love to watch the needle bounce up and down. However, they are terrified of the ironing board. Anytime I bring it out, the cats scatter in all directions! Makes for fun sewing times. And no, we shall not talk about the mysterious piles of cat puke that appear all over the house.
We currently have the most dog like cat, we call her a “dat”, we have ever had. She is the accidental cat. The one who was only supposed to stay a month or two while her owner looked for another home for her. We were not ready for another pet, having lost a Labrador and our daughter’s cat within two weeks of each other the year before. But there she was. A poor kitty, with the stupid name of “Kitty”, that had been abused by her previous owner’s soon to be ex husband. Slowly, she figured out we would let her be and she began to trust us. We called her “JC” for “J——–‘s Cat”, because Kitty was dumb and she still was the other’s cat. After a few months, we claimed “Jaycee” as ours. She plays chase with us and loves to watch the birds in the new house we built for her. Well, she thinks the house is hers and who are we to argue with her!
Fun fabric and how sweet of you to donate part of your sales to rescues/welfare! We now have enough kitties to qualify as “those people” but wouldn’t part with any of them. The latest is named Melvin after the bridge worker who rescued a tiny orange kitten from the middle of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge! They think he had climbed up under the maintenance vehicles. A local garden center also does rescues and we found him there while picking up some dirt. He was not even two pounds then, too small to even vaccinate. He is still adorable, and the snuggliest cat I know, he loves to be held and we love to hold him, despite the drool 🙂
I recently adopted my fourth cat who at this moment is cowering in the bathtub, even though the other kitties can’t get into “her” room.
My orange Persian cat guarantees that I am never without cat hair, no matter where I am.
My cat Bob loves to lay on my ironing board. When I move her off that she lays on the material I have on the table. I have to keep moving her when I’m sewing. silly girl
One of my cats grabs the end of a thread off my thread hanger and pulls it all around my sewing studio, down the stairs, and all over the house. He also eats it which results in some interesting adventures when it makes it through his digestive system.
Ours attacktd my husband when he was just going to show her a rat bed
I have three cats currently, one of which was infected with feline herpes in utero, so he has a permanent sneezy thing happening which results in an impressive volume of boogers to clean up. One of my previous cats was allergic to soy, and I had to make cat food every other week by slow cooking a pork shoulder and adding in canned pumpkin.
So… yeah, I have that Crazy Cat Lady thing down pat. And I volunteer with a local no-kill cat shelter in Atlanta named Good Mews, and I make them a quilt every year for their silent auction fundraiser. They would dig a quilt from this fabric. 😉
Amazingly, neither of my cats are hockers (#blessed ;)). BUT they are obsessed with food and endlessly harass me while I’m cooking in the kitchen. I blame my husband, who regularly gives them human food.
Don’t have a cat at present because we had to have our sweet Calvin put to sleep and I cannot bear to do that again. I miss him terribly and ocassionally I look for him.
Ok…so this is really about my daughter’s cat…so id use the fabric for something for her. Any way, when she was 9, all she wanted for Christmas was a cat. Her dad DID NOT want a cat but I broke him down. When Christmas came, all we wrapped was kitty litter, food and a litter box. She was so mad, told us we were the meanest parents ever…then we gave her Harry, who lived to be 17 years old. I think my husband still misses ole Har-ball ?
I have 5 kitties I care for, 2 are rescues (mine) and 3 are strays (house cats). My Tuxedo cat (Samson-rescue) loves lying in/on/around my fabrics and scraps. He literally rolls around and digs in my scraps to take a nap. He truly believes I lay out fabric just for him. My Bengal Shaka (rescue) is a hawker and not secretly. He leaves me presents especially during his shedding seasons. I try to brush him daily and give him a cat laxative to lessen the hawking but alas I still get piles. I grow them kitty grass to help with the expulsions. Yep I’m an enabler. One of the house cats, Tango, (named for his orange coat AND orange eyes) has constipation issues. So I have to chase him down to give him cat laxative or Miralax or mineral oil to aid in his eliminations. I use to try and give him glycerin suppositories (what a feat) but he would quickly run away from me and push it right out. All the fighting we did and there it lay on the floor. I know Tango love me because he is always batting his eyes at me from across the room. Lol. We do love our feline friends.
My cat, Chester, is the abdicated emperor of the Western Samoan Jungle Wussycats. He abandoned his throne and his people when the cat arm of the Los Angeles Krips (The Krats. I’m sure you’ve heard of them) kidnapped his sister and fled back to Long Beach. He took his royal boat (the WSJWS Cat’s Meow) and went full steam after her.
The fight was brutal, but the Krats had no defense against Western Samoan Jungle Wussy Cat-Fu. His vengeance was had.
Sadly, the WSJWS Cat’s Meow was sunk in the fighting. Chester, and his sister Colette, were forced to wander the land until some sucker… I mean…. caring human picked them up and took them home. They have lived with me ever since. Sadly Colette passed away last year from kidney failure. Chester lives on however, to tell the tale.
His main complaint is that our local American cat food chefs are not as skilled as the ones in his homeland. And thus he feels the need to express his displeasure regularly by leaving piles of rejected food directly in the footpath to the bathroom. I consulted with him and he is sure your faithful cat is a cousin.
Our friendly neighbourhood Cat is Fluffy….although Fluffy is not fluffy…she is really is a nice shorthaired feline. She lives across the street (most of the time) but she hunts in our yard. We appreciate her adventures in our yard but her habit of lying in the sunshine in front of the patio doors flaunting her captures and inciting absolute paranoid barking from our canine companion is hilarious! I am sure Fluffy is well aware that the dog can’t get to her…..
Just recently lost one of our beloved cats, very heartbreaking, we do still have another, who has now got over her grief at losing her brother. When I go to my quilting room to sew, she always comes down to keep my company. Have always been a cat person, they are so intelligent and each one has their own personality.
We don’t discuss the number of cats in this house…let’s just say more than “a few”. Quilts never escape without a “cat scan” and lint rollers are my best friend. The cats were so happy when I got the 12 foot long cat hammock for them… I call it a longarm quilting machine!
Sorry, no cats here as I am allergic. But my son adores them and is constantly sending me pictures of them when he is at friends’ houses. This fabric could give him a pretty good cat substitute.
My best travel buddy had a temporary cat tenant when her brother stayed with her for a year. When she was sick, Lenore would sit on her chest.
Our cat, Cat Five (named for the network cable standard), feels she must lay on the computer keyboard or my wrist when I’m working on the computer. In the living room she actually pulls at the quilt on the couch until she’s made a little cave inside the quilt. From her hiding place in the quilt she su-purr-vises us.
I am a converted cat lady-according to my spouse who is the one who had a cat when we met! We have 2–and had another that passed away at the nice old age of 19. I now love cats and would have more—maybe someday!
My cat, Alvin, is also a closet ‘hocker.’ He always seems to position his gifts right by the front door or next to the dining room table. And I only seem to notice them when the doorbell rings or dinner is being served. He also has many awesome qualities….he loves people and thinks he’s a dog. I wouldn’t trade him for anything!
My cat makes sure to get involved
when I lay out squares deciding on placement. I have to take a picture quick once I’ve decided, because she loves to try to dive under or roll over quilt squares laid out on the floor!