i have 3 cats, 1 of them is a quilter

My son's cat is living with me for a few months (long story). It took her very little time to discover all the fabric-covered places in my house and claim them as hers.

Yesterday evening I had some friends over to work on a set of table mats for a friend who has just moved house. My cat spent the evening demanding attention in so many ways. Firstly, she prostrated herself on the table, on top of all the pieces of fabric that we had just laid out carefully to sew. When she was removed from that she then went to the kitchen counter-top and tried to open the box of peppermint tea bags and lie in it After that she kept trying to sit on my lap as I tried to do some free motion quilting! It's just not possible to do that with a cat on your lap I have a woven basket which I use for all scraps of fabric that are too small to reuse, so of course that is where she ended up lying. When she got out she was covered with tiny threads and bunny ears etc. Cats, they are never boring

Good idea about the flannel. I covered my design wall with flannel and it works fine. Last week I was pin basting a quilt I want to get done by Christmas and one of my cats was tearing the batting out between the backing and the top. They are involved in every step of quilt making, like sleeping on the quilt when I'm trying to free motion quilt. Not so easy to free motion quilt with 15 pounds of cat on it:)

My two young cats had destroyed the second batting that I had used to cover my 8' x 8' design wall. As in the previous case, I planned to re-cycle the snagged batting by working it into a quilt (can't see the tears in there). Inspiration hit and I sprayed the snagged, lumpy batting with quilt basting spray, and then smoothed my latest top over the slightly tacky design wall.

Now to re-cover the foam panels with real flannel fabric and see if that holds up better.