This is a cat bed. It’s made out of handspun hand-dyed wool yarn that I didn’t know what else to do with. (The yarn is, iirc, romney. the dye is cherry bark, straight up or with copper / iron added. There is also some black walnut brown in there as well.) My yarn is pretty skinny, like thread, so this was three strands held together and knit on (for me) fairly huge needles… 6? 7? something like that.

Procedure: Knit a long tube about as big around as your hand will fit snugly into. Make it long enough to go around a cat. Stuff it with fluffy, carded wool leftovers (when carding, I have wool leftovers that are all … short or icky bits that I don’t want to spin) or wool that you don’t like spinning or whatever. Stuff it pretty firm -- it needs to hold its structure -- and then sew it shut.

Then, pick up sts around the bottom of the tube. This will be the “floor” of the cat bed. Knit in the round (oval, actually) and decrease as needed to make the floor of the cat bed mostly flattish. Do the best you can… you can see I struggled somewhat with this but as it turns out, cats are not super-picky judges of knitting and will tolerate a flawed but still-functional product. Eventually you’ll get to where you have stitches that look kinda like a center seam, which you can kitchener or knit together (I picked ‘knit together’ because it was faster and I hate kitchener) et voila. Cat bed.

My cats like the cat bed. Even though it was sized for the smaller cat, the larger cat spends more time in the cat bed. He sort of overflows it but this does not prevent him from using it.