Upcycled Sweater Birds
I love birds and especially at this time of year. They are starting to appear in my yard and I can hear them chirping when I open my windows to air out the stale house air. It has been a long winter here in Utah and the gray days are about to put me in the loony bin. Seeing them flit around on the blossoming trees makes me so happy that SPRING is finally here. HOORAY! It has been a while since I posted about these fun little upcycled sweater birds, so I thought I would re-post.
Upcycled Sweater birds
If you haven’t noticed already, I enjoy making things out of recycled and felted wool sweaters. I thought it would be fun to see if I could use up some scraps and make a robin, after all I had the perfect orange sweater that would be ideal for the belly.
It was so much fun making the robin that I drew up a few other birds and after a few prototypes and some funny looking birds, this is what I finally came up with. I just love my feathery (well felty) friends.
Bluebird
Do you have any blue sweaters kicking around that you aren’t wearing? These birds are really quite easy to make.
Cardinal
Sparrow
You can stick a piece of paddle wire to their bellies then attach them to a basket, plant, or wreath. They make a great PIN CUSHION, and kids love to play with them. I don’t have any cats, but I am sure they would go crazy, especially if you added a little catnip while you were stuffing them.
All you wool sweater groupies, get out your felted scraps and get sewing. You can use fleece and even just a cotton woven fabric would work. The pattern is available in my shop, and in my ETSY shop.
Jan Howell
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