[Terra]

Yeah cats do stuff like that all the time.

I have a sewing/embroidery machine ($8,000.00 piece of equipment) that for some reason attracts my cat every time I sit down and do textilecraft. It takes me almost two hours to digitize the project and when I sew it out is when I have to keep the cat out of the room. The problem is that he knows how to open doors and since it doesn't have a lock on it, I have to barricade the door. Since the actual sewing of the project takes over an hour and depending on the thread (which sometimes uses over 30 different colors to change and I'm not always IN the room when each color is sewing out) it's a real bitch to have to watch the cat and do the work.

Yet I would get rid of the machine before I got rid of the cat.