This is one of our easiest crafts, and also one of the cheapest. As you might understand - I didn't do this sweater for my cats. A word of warning, don't put this on a long and semilong haired cat - you will laugh and your cat will recent you for it. This craft is for all the frozen shorthaired(or naked) cats out there.

The cute little model in the picture is called Elsa. She is a very unusual black silverspotted Cornish Rex. You cat visit her and her family at their homepage - S*Aureus Ocicat & Cornish Rex.

This has become a very popular craft. At the bottom of this page I will collect pictures of cats in their sweaters. If you have a picture of your cat here, eMail me!

Material:
50 cm fleece fabric (buy some more if your cat is fairly large)
1 st elastic sleeve cuff.

1. Measure your cat from the base of the tail to the neck. Adjust the pattern to that measurement at point 1.

2. The next measurement is from one front leg armpit over the back to the next armpit. Divide the measurement by two and adjust the pattern at point 2.

3. Nest is the width between the frontlegs. Use this for the strip that covers the chest. The length of the strip you get from the pattern between point 3 and 4.

   Now it is time to put the pattern on the fabric and to cut out the pieces. The back-piece goes against a fold(vik kant is swedish for - fold edge). Fleece is stretchable in one direction, try to make the sweater stretch around the chest. You need seam allowance on the backpiece between point 3 and 4 and on the long side of the chestpiece. Cut out both the pieces and sew them together, but leave an opening for the frontlegs according to point 5 at the pattern. Then cut the backpiece at the dotted line you can se at point 5.

   If you want a collar on the sweater. Sew an elastic cuff to the neckline.

   Now all you need is to put the sweater on the cat, prepare to be resisted ;-). If the sweater is static, wash it and use fabric softener. If that doesn't help, try making the sweater in another material(but then don't forget to zigzag the edges).   If you try out this craft I would really like to se the result, please mail me a picture.

   Good luck!

Paris at All-hairless katteri in Umeå Sweden really likes her sweater.