Jazz Hands Cat Felted Wool Charm
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100% New Zealand Wool
Open pasture, naturally soft, cleanly spun, and extraordinarily resilient.
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Individually Hand-Sculpted
Wet-felted and needle-detailed so no two pieces are identical.
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Naturally Fresh & Durable
Breathable, odor-resistant, and easy to spot clean.
Description
A felted black cat in yellow shorts and blue mittens, both arms flung up and out, fingers spread.
The body says ta-daa. The face does not.
His eyes do not match. One is wide open and round. The other is a narrow half-shut lens, and the gap between them is the entire character — a cat throwing his arms in the air while remaining visibly unconvinced by the whole business. Matching eyes would have made him delighted. Mismatched, he is doing it under duress.
The mittens are cut as separate pieces in slate blue and stitched on around the edge, with the stitches left showing rather than hidden. Four splayed fingers on each.
He has shoes. Small cream ones on his hind feet, each with a black X of laces worked across the top.
The shorts are a separate felt garment in bright yellow, with a real seam running up the centre back.
A white muzzle with a black nose and a small red mouth, white whiskers, and pale grey inside both ears.
On a plaited jute cord.
Made from New Zealand wool.
Please note: small parts. Not suitable for children under three.
Materials
- New Zealand wool, felted.
- Dyed black, yellow, slate blue and grey with undyed cream.
- Separately cut and stitched felt mittens and shorts.
- Embroidered eyes, whiskers, mouth and shoelaces.
- Plaited jute hanging cord.
Dimensions
Craft
- His eyes do not match, and that is not a slip.
- One is wide open and round, a full white circle with a dark pupil. The other is a narrow half-shut lens with the lid dropped most of the way over it. Side by side on the same face, the two of them produce an expression no symmetrical pair coulda cat who has raised both arms in the air while remaining entirely unconvinced by the exercise.
- Matching wide eyes would have made him delighted. Matching narrow ones would have made him sleepy. One of each makes him sceptical, and sceptical is the only one of the three that is funny.
- It is also the hardest to do on purpose. Two different eyes have to look deliberate rather than botched, which means the open one has to be clean and the shut one has to be clearly a lid rather than a mistake. There is a narrow band between a wink and a defect.
- The pose is doing the other half. Both arms flung up and out with the fingers spread — unambiguous, maximum enthusiasm, the gesture you make when something has gone right. Put that body under that face and the whole thing is a joke about doing as you are told.
- The mittens are separate pieces of slate blue felt, cut to shape with four splayed fingers and stitched on around the edge with the stitching left visible. Hidden stitches would have made them part of his arms. Showing them makes them gloves — something put on over the paws, with a seam you can see.
- The shorts are a real garment too, not a painted banda separate piece of yellow felt with a seam running up the centre back, which you can only see from behind.
- And he is wearing shoes. Small cream ones on the hind feet, each with a black X of laces worked across the instep. Nothing about the piece required shoes. Somebody put them on anyway, and the laces are the detail that tells you they are shoes rather than white feet.
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