The following websites provide full directions and templates for Christmas crafts featuring cats, as well as photographs of the finished products.
Sew a Cute Holiday Cat Pillow
This adorable holiday cat pattern from Craft and Fabric Links makes a pillow in the shape of a snuggly sleeping cat. Templates for the pieces are provided in PDF format.
Create Cat Christmas Cards
It’s easy to make Christmas cards from scratch using a colour printer and materials and images of your choice. Free, copyright-friendly cat images can be found at the following sites:
- Vintage Holiday Crafts provides a gallery of free vintage Christmas cat art cards.
- Large galleries of free cat photos can be found on the Wikimedia Commons Felis Silvestris Catus page and Flickr’s Creative Commons cat pages.
Images can be printed directly onto white cardstock or onto white glossy paper and then cut out and glued to cardstock of a different colour to create cards with a border.
Make Cat Christmas Ornaments
See this Pinterest homemade cat ornament gallery for ideas.
Sew a Christmas Cat Quilt or Wall Hanging
Janet Wickel provides this basic pattern for a Christmas patchwork quilt block with a cat. This pattern can be customized by using various fabrics (including those that resemble fur for a 3-dimensional effect); embroidering or appliqueing whiskers and eyes onto the cat; or dressing it up with bows, bells, and other adornments.
For more Christmas stuff, see the main Christmas page.