Love bird tutorial

A little quickie love bird.

I'm hoping if you click on the link below, and maximise the page, you will be able to print off the right sized template for this birdie.

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Gawd knows how long I spent trying to sort out a pdf for this, and then gave up, so hopefully inserting it as a file will suffice.If it doesn't you can scale up this (click on the picture to make it bigger).

 

Stitch one piece of plain fabric to one piece of patterned fabric along the long edge, repeat, then fold your 4" square of fabric in half and press as shown.

 

I've lined the body pieces with a medium weight cotton to make it nice and sturdy, just stitch together along the edges and trim. Don't do this to the pocket which is shown on the left.

 

Pin and stitch around the template on one piece of your plain/patterned fabric. This will act as a guide for your applique and subsequent stitchery.

Stitch his/her face in place, and then pin the folded over pocket to your birdie body, aligning the top of the pocket as below

   

(Sorry about the crappy photo).

Flip over, and following your previous stitch line, stitch the pocket to the main body.

Cut out the feet and hair from scraps of felt

 

 

Stitch in place.

I made my legs a bit shorter after I'd taken this photo, but it's entirely up to you how long they are.

 

Now pin your two body pieces right sides together, and stitch together just inside your original guideline leaving a gap to turn.

 

Trim and snip close to your stitch line to make it more bendy.

Turn right side out, and stitch gap closed.

 

Make some little paper love notes using the bigger heart template, and a fabric heart using the smaller template and pop into the pocket (or you could suggest to your loved one that this would be a very good place to hide a lovely surprise diamond ring for you).

 

As usual, I suspect this tutorial rambles on, but I hope it makes sense, do let me know if not.

Happy Valentines day !

Comments

[Aeptah]

here's a free PDF creation tool you might find useful and handy to have...

http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

[made by Maisie]

I have made 6 love birds so far for a special easter drop for the toy society.

Your tutorial was wonderful. Such a cute little softie to make for Easter. I am calling him the Easter Chick!

x Catherine

[funny]

thx for sharing :) lovely

[A_flama]

Very cute :)
Just added on my blog!!!

[Clothing Labels Designer]

How adorable!! Too bad I didn't see it before Valentines Day...
It is beautiful.
Thanks for sharing.

[Emily Flippin Maruna]

Hi,

I love your love bird. I tweaked it and pretty much mangled it :) for a little guy's birthday present. Blogged about it and thought you might want to check it out.
http://emilyflippinmaruna.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/ground-control/

[Akhila]

Super cute! Sweetest present I can imagine.
Thanks
Akhila

[Christy Sheffield]

very cute.

[Heather]

So cute!!! I'm glad someone posting your link on One Crafty Place. I can't wait to sit down and go through your archives!! Thanks for sharing your tutorials and patterns!

[elizabeth]

This is the best idea ever, its so cute and can be very versatile, for easter, birthday, vals day even just thankyou or whatever, thanks so much.

[Nekita]

o la la !!! 110 commentaires (je suis le 111ème !!! )
j'ai très envie de réaliser ton joli oiseau... dès que j'aurai un moment !

amitiés de France
nekita

o la la! 110 comments (I am the 111th!)
I really want to achieve your beautiful bird ... as soon as I have a moment!

Amitiés de France
(that, you have understood, isn't it?)

[Gail]

This is sweet. I'm going to make these with my grandkids.. cute, cute cute.

[Tanya]

Thank you Thank you Thank you :-) for posting this. I am making these -- in May ;-) -- and am so grateful you shared not only this idea, but also the instructions!! I appreciate the photos and details as well....there was not even a hint of rambling. It was perfect.

I also followed your "birdie" tutorial a few springs ago....thank you for that as well. It is so rewarding, as a new sewer, to be able to make somthing fun and unique and cute, without feeling like a complete failure at the machine!!!! :-)

[cevreen]

c'est vraiment trop mignon! merci pour le tuto.

[isastuce]

It's so cute !!! Thank you for the tutorial !

[DNAlice]

So cute! I made one, and it turned out really well. Thank you so much! ^_^

[l'arbre à bobines]

Merci c'est trop mignon

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[MasBay]

asem tak kiro tutorial manuk lovebird

[Natacha]

lovely tutorial! You are doing so much things, are you sleeping sometimes ;-) ?

[Claire]

Just thought I'd let you know that I've made some 'rabbit' softies which were inspired by your cute little creations! I blogged about them last night.

[Janine]

Thanks for this cute tutorial

[sookylahlah]

Awww! They are adorable! Yay! Can't wait to make them for affordable gifls! Thanks.

[fancythatcookies]

so cute!

[Villblomsten]

Lovely and cute :-)

[Monica]

Hi there!
I've made your Love Bird and it was such a happy project to do! Thank you very very much for sharing!!
If you'd like to see mine, you can find it here.

I've noticed you haven't been active on your blog for quite a long time and I think it's such a shame. Most of the times I don't take time to read teksts, but you have such a great way of putting things :D Sometimes I sit here laughing out loud, for real!

So if this might help: would you pleassseee consider coming back to share all your great creative expressions, which inculeds your writings! The fact I'm in love with everything you make, that's just so logical. How could I not love it (duah!)

*hug* Monica

[minah_stapler]

thanks... this is just lovely. I made a pair of lovebirds using unused towels and hanky. Really adorable. The template missed out the hair part but that is really quite easy to do.

http://stapler.blogspot.com/2010/02/lovebirds-xoxo.html

[Thonosv]

This bird is really really cuteeeeeeee!! I can't wait to do this!

[Kelly]

Very cute!!

[Nídias Santos]

It's beautful!

I loved!

[Meg]

Cute cute cute! I have yet to make this (lazy,*sigh*), but every time I run across your tutorial, I fall in love again. :) Thanks for sharing!