Wintry Thoughts

I just made a basket in the shape of a sleigh in my basket making class. Actually, I was working so intently on writing yesterday that I almost forgot to go and showed up an hour late. This is the class that really gave me the bug. I've toyed with the thought of trying to make baskets outside of class--as a continuing education course, we only make one basket a month--but now...I've got plans! (And now that I think about it, I think these plans officially confirm that I am no longer a "young adult." I am firmly aboard that train to middle age, with these plans. Shoot, I might even be on the old-woman train and not quite realize it--age, I've heard, will do that to you.)

Anyway, I want to make a cat basket!

One of these:



Or one of these:



Or this:



Just a little something that will make W. and the cats AND me happy. (I've had a no-ugly-cat-furniture-in-our-house rule for awhile now. So far, all humans and felines have complied.)

These aren't *ugly* are they?

Now, for figuring up a pattern based on my limited skilz....