OK, so I haven’t been knitting all my life but ever since I started knitting in 2016 I haven’t put my needles down. My day job (and my night job) involves sitting around staring at computers nonstop, so it’s nice to have a hobby that takes me away from the screen and has me working with my hands. I’ve always loved to create, whether it was through writing or web development, so knitting has been a great outlet to channel my passions into a new medium.

I love cats. I especially love my two cats, Ford and Rooney. They started out as foster cats but after six months of them not getting adopted, I couldn’t let them go. I’m not going to lie: it’s really hard to knit with cats around. They think all of my supplies are toys, they sit on my lap when I’m trying to work, and, sometimes, they go to town destroying my projects.

Cats Before Hats is for those of us knitters who have to do their knitting with cats crawling all over them. It’s for those of us knitters who have had to explain on more than one occasion that yarn is not a toy. It’s for those of us knitters who are crazy enough to knit hats for our cats even though we know they probably won’t wear them (and probably will completely destroy them). It’s for those of us knitters who sometimes might want to knit a cat hat for themselves (or a cat scarf or cat mittens or really just all the cat things ever). It’s for those of us knitters who also love cats.