Lovely rug and lovely cat,
I made a pair in my gap year, they were much cheaper then. Still going strong. I bought them a few packets at a time because I could not afford it all at once, so there is a little variation in colour but it does not notice.
But my mother found I had not got enough to finish and rung them up accusing them of not putting enough in the kit and they sent some extra. It was years before I found out. I thought it was strange I had enough to finish without buying some more.
Its a great hobby for keeping warm since once you have a nice woollen rug on your lap you do not notice the cold, and my room was very cold that winter.