#reese kitty

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new canonical illustrated guide to how to tell me and my housemate Yan apart, with obligatory regal Reese included for free

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oh my god I want to put Reese in one of these so bad

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I made a tiny leather pirate hat for Robb’s kitty over the weekend. Alas, I lack photos of said kitty, so here it is reluctantly modeled by my own handsome beast.

Started by referencing photos of Robb’s actual pirate hat to figure out how to structure it. Sized the brim with paper mockups on my cat’s head. I initially thought I could simply stretch and wet form the crown, but it didn’t come out high enough to pin the sides against for that classic tricorn shape, so I made a structured one.

Crown: a teardrop-cross-sectioned cylinder. I own the cheapest sewing machine on Amazon, which is definitively unable to sew any but the thinnest of thin leathers -- I tried tapping the treadle experimentally and the needle just stopped. You know what can exert a lot more force than a cheap sewing machine, though? ARMS. So I powered through this by furiously hand cranking the manual knob the entire way through the hat. Take that.

Experimented with wet forming the folded brim, but it didn’t hold well, so I pinned each side in place by punching holes and knotting a bit of leather cord through. Finished with a cute skull rivet, and a velcro strap for cat-mounting.

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This is my cat in an alternate universe where he's some kind of billionaire playboy.