Cat mat
There is a type of tiny quilt that is commonly called a “mug rug”. Except, in my house apparently it would be more appropriately called a “cat mat”.
“What? It looked comfortable.”
I have decided that Parsnips follows a definite set of rules when deciding whether to sit on something:
| Truth condition | Probability of cat sitting on |
| Thing exists | 80% |
| Thing looks marginally more comfortable than surrounding things | 90% |
| Thing contains words which human is trying to read | 95% |
| Thing has a surface which shed fur will adhere to particularly well | 100% |
| Thing has a surface which shed fur will adhere to particularly well, and it’s moulting season | 105% |
| Sitting on Thing will cause human to inhale or ingest cat dander, and have allergic reaction | 110% |
Notes:
- Where more than one truth condition entails, probabilities are cumulative
- Some mathematicians may tell you that it is impossible to have a probability over 100%. Parsnips has never let this stop her.
Well, never mind the probablilities, what I can SEE of the mat is pretty.
🙂
It’s this one: http://www.deardiary.org/futurecat/2013/06/21/pretty-colours-for-a-grey-day/ – one of my earliest attempts at quilting, before I really knew what I was doing. The stitching is pretty rough, and there’s a lot of things I’d have done differently if I was making it now, but it’s colourful and cheerful (even after having been through the wash many times – I use it as my dinner place-mat, so even without the cat sitting on it I’d need to wash it regularly), so I like it.