The Birds

Love my birds! I saw these hanging in the storefront of the Yoga studio. They were in a mobile and very cute. The pattern is available at http://www.spoolsewing.com/blog/2008/05/16/bird-mobile.

I took some photos of the process if you have any desire to make your own. I am in love with them. I made 28! Yes, 28. I am not totally sure what I am going to do with them, but my kids and their friends love them and put in their special orders. I have a ton of extra fabrics. I make bags and always have lots of cute scraps, this is a great way to use them. (do you see your fabric here?) Dr. Chubby, (Baby, to you) loves chewing on his as well. As you know, I LOVE ribbon. How could I not use ribbon? So I did make wings on one. I thought it was pretty successful. If I ever have a few extra minutes I want to make a mobile for The Littles room. Very cute for a boy and a girl. I think they would be adorable at Christmas as well.

1. Fold fabric in half, trace and cut. (only a single layer for the tail.)

2. Separate, and pin at the tails, right sides together. (do not sew the tails shut)

3. Sew up each side, then the head, meeting at the converging point of the body.

4. No need to trim strings, they're all inside. Turn your bird right side out, I use the eraser end of a pencil.

5. Stuff your bird. Use a good filling, and stuff right into the beak and head first. Once the body is done, it's too late to work on the head area. I like them very full, but the other ones I've seen weren't as full. (then again, their kids weren't trying to eat them)

6. Hand stitch the tail shut. The others were machine done, but it only takes a second to hand do it and I think it looks much nicer.

Enjoy! But be careful or you'll have a whole flock, like me.