Folk Embroidered Felt Birds: 20 modern folk art designs to make & embellish

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We’ll send the template straight to your inbox, and let you know when we come out with more free printable patterns! The projects in the book are all darling! And the instructions are excellent and very accessible. If you enjoy making things and you like birds, folk art, and felt, this book would be right up your alley! Im pretty sure it will put a smile on your face! Choose one piece of felt for the front of your bird. Sew the wing into place as shown in the photo above. If you want a book to help you sew felt into beautiful birds... look no further!! The clear photographs and instructions are just so easy to follow. This book would be a lovely present and you could give the person a few felt squares, some thread and let them start creating right away!! Love it!!

I have a card template of the bird which I trace around onto the felt with a water soluble fabric marking pen. Thread: We used white for stitching around the bird, and different colors for the embroidering on the wings and tail. Once the wing is in place, you can position the button eye and sew that on as well. Other alternative options for the eye can include a bead, some stitching or a circle of felt.Gretel Parker has designed these gorgeous colourful felted bird brooches, and we think they have serious gift appeal! They are the perfect way to inject a touch of fun into your spring accessories. Needle felting is a great project for profit, and stunning designs like these needle felted birds can command a considerable markup, as well as only using a small amount of roving wool. Here's some color combos I like for birds: blue and lilac, pink and brown, cream and brown, pink and blue. You can also use more natural looking colors too. Enjoy making your tweet bird. The square format of this beautiful book makes it feel different and inside it is filled with the enthusiasm of the author for her felt birds. To make the beak, fold the red felt into a triangle by inverting the top 2 corners in then fold it into half. Leave a small margin (3-5mm is great) and start to sew around the edge of the bird. I like to start from the bottom middle because this will leave me an easy section to sew at the end once I start stuffing the plush.

And theyre delightful! If you love birds (I love birds) and you like the look of folk embroidery, and you like working with felt to make three dimensional objects, then you need to add this book to your library. As long as your fingers are kept away from the tip of the needle, it is safe to do this. Just in case you don’t like this method, you can always replace this process with the wet felting method. Simply shape the wool into tail shape with water and soup. Wait for it to dry before continuing the next step. Every aspect of instruction is presented in very clear, step-by-step photos with text. The text is succinct quite minimal; its very precise and easy to follow.

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Folk Embroidered Felt Birds is a beautiful book full of lovely birds to create. The techniques are clear with lots of pictures and step-by-step instructions to follow for the basic creating, then each bird has its own instructions that are easy to follow. I would recommend to anyone who wanted to have a go. Hooray - all patterns are full scale and easy to copy from the book, no upscaling, popping to the library, or giving up and leaving on the shelf.

This is a book to make you smile. A clever use of simple embroidery stitches such as fly, seed, chain and French knots are used effectively to give each of the birds their individual characters.Once this has all be laid out for you, there follows 20 easy to make colourful birds which are so pleasing to the eye! I particularly like the use of sequins on the pigeon to add texture and shimmer. The information provided throughout the book is clearly presented and well illustrated. Each fun project should be achievable for anyone with a basic knowledge of stitch and embroidery.