Mystical Cat Potholders

I saw the cats as I tossed the fabric in the washing machine.  They were unlike the other pieces of fabric that Karen sent to me.  Not only was each square the perfect size to make a potholder around, but they had a mystical feeling to me, like tarot cards. Each with their own mysterious message.

I knew right away that they would work best in the same way I made some Dragonfly potholders a couple of years ago.

A part of me thought, they would be too easy, too much fun to make.  Like they had to be difficult or labored over to be good.  That’s an idea that I rejected long ago, but still haunts me sometimes, as it did today.

But not for long.

Instead, I thought of the idea of taking the path of least resistance. Which always conjures up an image of a flowing stream finding its way around a fallen tree.

There are enough struggles in life without creating unnecessary ones.

The cats were in a grid of nine squares and I quickly got to work cutting them apart and finding the fabric I’d be using with them.  Lots of it was fabric that I just received in the past couple of weeks from other people.  I don’t know how that works, this coming together of fabric from so many different people and places at just the right time.

But I’ve come to trust it.

So today, after lunch with my friend and batik artist, Carol Conklin I got started making some mystical cat potholders.  It was a pure delight and I can’t wait to work on the rest of them.