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a simple, clever ornament that is pretty too.
This little bird takes four strips of felt and five stitches to make. Really, that’s it.
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Step 1First cut your felt into four 8 x 1/4 inch long strips. Line them up nice and neat. Make a mark on them with your disappearing pen at these measurements:
1. on the top strip at 1 1/2inches and 3 1/2 inches from the right
2. on the second strip at 1 1/4inches and 3 3/4 inches from the right
3. on the third strip at 1 inch and 4 inches from the right
4. and on the bottom strip 3/4inch and 4 1/2 inch from the right
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Step 2Now stack up all the strips in the same order they are already in (bottom one on the bottom, then the third one on top, and so on). Flip the top one over when you stack it on top so the markings are hidden.
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Step 3Take your needle and thread and on the right side where they are all lined up sew the strips together with a few stitches. This will make the beak of the bird. When you start hide your knot in between two of the strips and when you are done hide it again–do this for the next steps as well.
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Step 4Next line up all the first dots you made and sew a few stitches to secure them together. You’ve just made the dove’s head.
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Step 5Now line up the next set of dots and sew. Look! A bird! You can trim the tail however you like. You can round the edges, or make them fringey, or roll the strips up at the end and iron them a bit so they curl, or whatever else you can think of.
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Step 6To make the hanger, take your embroidery floss (about 8 inches or so) and insert your needle where you made the neck stitch. And then again by the tail stitch. Put the ends of the thread together–you should have made a triangle where the base is the same length as the back of the bird. This sounds very weird when I say it, but in the picture it’s pretty obvious, right? I used green embroidery floss so you could see it better, but you probably want it to match your felt.
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Step 7Tie the ends together and hang up that pretty christmas bird.
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