If you’ve ever seen the amount of hair that comes off your cat when you brush it, especially in the spring, you’ve probably wondered if there’s anything useful to do with it. In Crafting with Cat Hair, author Kaori Tsutaya (translated by Any Hirschman) shares her discovery of how to use cat hair to make super easy felt crafts. Felt is incredibly simple to make (even out of cat hair!), only needing tangled fibers that you compress to turn into delightful crafts. Most of the crafts in this book don’t even need sewing skills, really only using a using a felting needle and sponge to complete the projects.

Crafting with Cat Hair includes instructions on how to make charming finger puppets and mini portraits of your cat entirely out of cat hair and then goes on to crafts like tote bags, mittens and gloves that you can apply the cat felt on top of. The book also contains several two page spreads of cat facts from why cats have no smell, to the differences between a topcoat and an undercoat. And the back of the book includes profiles of the sweet felines who “donated” hair to the book. My favorite project was the lovable three-dimensional mini portraits you can make of your own cat. I can’t wait to make one of my Siamese kitten once he’s shedding enough hair, his portrait will be (almost) as cute as he is!