I mentioned earlier this month that I was about to embark on an experiment when it comes to crocheting a cat tubbie. The idea was that since the first tubbie sort of deflated over time and is now more like a pancake than a tub, I would work with doubled yarn and thus create more structure to the finished product. Alas, this does seem to be a good concept, but as I got into the project further, I realized that I had, again, made the bottom part too large for my tiny little gray cat. Yes, I could have unraveled a bunch of it, but I had already done that due to some brilliant (or admittedly not so brilliant) idea that I was going to wing it for awhile rather than follow either of the two instructions I had for this.

Ultimately, I opted to finish it off early, and as you can see, it is in use. He doesn’t seem to mind to much that it’s too big and really more of an upside down berret than a tub. However, I’m not deterred and cat tubbie 3.0 is in the planning stages. I just purchased two purple pound-sized skeins of yarn and will next attempt to make it smaller (pay attention this time Princess!) and make it double thick as far as density. Hopefully, it will work this time and get as much use as the two previous models, which basically have one of my two cats in them just about 24/7.