Cat - Sitting - © Jane Eborall

This is one of a series of three patterns showing cats in three positions.  The cat below was worked in no. 20 thread and measures 4 ¼” x 2 ½”.

Abbreviations

SR

The instructions given are for two colours which will need three shuttles for the face only (two used at a time).  For the eyes I used short bugle beads, 2 for each eye and 3 for the mouth.  The simplest way to avoid a knot at the beginning of the face is to work R1 (covering the shuttle thread with the first few ds) and then reversing the work, wrapping Wsh2 thread round the Wsh1 thread and starting R2 (again covering the shuttle thread with the first few ds).  Continue as usual with SR3.  The cat is worked in three parts.

Face – two shuttles filled with lighter colour.  Change Wsh2 to dark after SR4

Starting with Wsh1

R1:       10 ^ 5 ^ 5 +B to centre of R  Rw & change to Wsh2

R2:       (nose) 2 vlp 1 vlp 2 ^ 2 vlp 1 vlp 2  Rw & change to Wsh1

SR3:     5 ^ 5 / 10 +B to centre of R

SR4:     4 / 4  Change Wsh2 to dark colour

SR5:     8 / 8

R6:       8 ^ 8  Rw

Ch:       4  Rw

SR7:     4 / 4  Change to Wsh2

R8:       4 – 4  Change to Wsh1

SR9:     4 / 4  Rw

Ch:       6  Lj (^ R6)  Change to Wsh2

SR10:   4 / 2 (RoSR 2 + ^ on R3) 2

SR11:   4 / 4

SR12:   As SR11

SR13:   4 / 2 (RoSR 2 + ^ on SR1) 2  Rw  Change to Wsh1

R14:     8 ^ 8  Rw

Ch:       6  Change to Wsh2

SR15:   4 / 4

R16:     4 – 4

SR17:   4 / 4  Change to Wsh1

Ch:       4 Lj (^ R14)  Rw

SR18:   8 / 8

R19:     4 +(^ on R1) 4

SR20:   6 / 6

SR21:   As SR20  Rw

Ch:       5 ^ 5 Lp(½”) 4 Lj(^ on R2) 4 +(B’s to last Lp) 5 ^ 5  Rw

SR22:   As SR20

R23:     6 / 6 +(space btwn SR4 & SR5)  T & C

Cut and fray vlp’s on R2 to form whiskers.

R1:       3 +(^ on chain following SR21 of face) 3 – 3 – 3

Ch:       8

R2:       3 +(R1) 3 – 3 – 3

Ch:       8

R3:       4 +(R2) 4 – 4 – 4

Ch:       10

R4:       5 +(R3) 5 – 5 – 5

Ch:       10

R5:       5 +(R4) 5 – 5 – 5

Ch:       10

SR6:     3 +(R5) 3 – 3 / 3

SR7:     5 / 20

SR8:     5 / 20

SR9:     3 +(SR6) 3 – 3 / 3

Ch:       5 – 5

R10:     5 +(SR9) 5 +(R5) 5 – 5

Ch:       5 – 5

R11:     5 +(R10) 5 +(R4) 5 – 5

Ch:       4 – 4

R12:     4 +(R11) 4 +(R3) 4 – 4

Ch:       3 – 3

R13:     3 +(R12) 3 +(R2) 3 +(2^nd p on R1) 6

Ch:       3 + (p on last Ch) 3

R14:     6 – 3 – 3 – 3

Ch:       3 +(same p as last Ch) 3

R15:     4 +(R14) 4 – 4 – 4

Ch:       4 +(Ch btwn R11 & R12) 4

R16:     5 +(R15) 5 – 5 – 5

Ch:       5 +(Ch btwn R11 & R10) 5

R17:     5 +(R16) 5 – 5 – 5

Ch:       5 +(Ch btwn R10 & R9) 5

SR18:   3 +(R17) 3 / 3 – 3

SR19:   3 – 3 / 3 – 3 Rw

Ch:       5 ^ 5

R20:     5 +(SR19) 5 +(R17) 5 – 5

Ch:       ^ 5 ^ 5

R21:     5 +(R20) 5 +(R16) 5 – 5

Ch:       10

R22:     4 +(R21) 4 +(R15) 4 – 4

Ch:       8

R23:     3 +(R22) 3 +(2^nd p on R14) 3 – 3

Ch:       8

R24:     3 +(R23) 3 +(1^st p R14) 3 +(^ on chain following SR21 of face) 3  T & C

Tail – using Wsh1, join to ^ on Ch btwn SR20 & R21 and holding cat upside down work:-

SR1:     3 – 3 / 6

R2:       3 +(SR1) 6 +(^ btwn SR20 & SR21) 6 – 3

SR3:     3 +(R2) 3 / 6

SR4:     6 / 8

SR5:     6 +(Ch btwn R19 & SR20) 3 / 12

SR6:     10 / 10 +(SR19)

SR7:     4 +(SR18) 4/ 8

SR8:     8 / 8

SR9:     6 / 6  T & C  Leave a short end for a tuft at the end of the tail, cut and fray