BAST Cat -- Straight From Egypt

Back when Hancock Fabrics had a plethora of old Egyptian print fabrics, I drooled over them and finally came up with a few items that were fun and appropriately neat to make.  There were four different colored prints with hieroglyphics, one showing fancy wall paintings of the pharaoh and the queens, and then this lotus print.  The prints were limited runs, and all were discontinued after two years so I did my best to load up on them when I could.

 

What I did was make mummified mice cat toys, and mummified kitties.  I did the cat head with the safety lock eyes, fishing line whiskers, little ears, and a sort of sculpted face with a black felt nose.  I used Fimo clay and made ‘buttons’ of winged scarabs, pushing two holes per side so I could sew them on, and got some gold fancy braid to put around the top. 

 

 

 

They were priced at $8 each, there were maybe a batch of 30 of them, in kitten size and adult size.  The longer ones people were picking up and acted like they were baseball bats, taking a half swing and holding a bat in their other hand as a pretend ‘ball’.   Meh.  Whatever sells them…..  I think I carried them for two years.  The long ones always sold first, I had some of the kittens around for an extra two years but eventually all of them sold too.  Most were the ruddy fake fur, though I had a few in lighter tan and some in black with green eyes.