Christmas birds

December 21st

Scrap yarn bird

As a child, we had a few homemade decorations on the Christmas tree, one being a bird made out of
yarn, that mamma had made when she was a child.  She said they had several on their tree and it, along with an angel she made as a little girl, were precious decorations.  Over the years, the bird has disappeared and I was only reminded of it this year when an online tutorial was brought to my attention.  Link to it is at the bottom of this post.  I knew having seen the tutorial that I needed to make a Christmas robin and bring back some of my childhood memories.

These are great quick projects to make in company with adults or children and if I had more time, I know I would have made lots for the tree this year. Got a spare half an hour, then you too could make one of these...

Full tutorial on the link at the end, here are just my photos to give you an idea how to make a scrap yarn bird.

Cut out two pieces of card

Wrap yarn around until you have at least 1cm width of yarn in each colour

Cut just one end, hold tight, so the yarn
does not fall all over the place

Tie each one in the centre

Place the 12cm yarn on top of the 10cm breast coloured yarn

Fold each on half

Take a small new piece of matching yarn for each colour

Tie each as close to the centre as possible

Lay the final colour on top

Scrunch up half an A4 sheet,
his will be the bulk of the bird's body.

Bring together all the loose ends of each
colour section to cover the scrunched paper

Tie tightly  and trim the ends neatly

Make a beak out card

Add some black beads for eyes

Enjoy your bird

As our tree is not yet up, I have added
the robin to the centre of the door wreath

Lovely homemade addition to the wreath

I am sure if we were to make lots of these each one would look different and have their own characters.  Maybe I may suggest to the troops over Christmas that we each make one to put on the tree and give them their own names too!

 For the full tutorial:  Birds

♥  Hope you have a productive weekend  ♥