A Bird in the Hand...

...and a few in the bush! We've gone a bit bird-mad around here at the moment. You can see my stylist's hand in the picture.

This handy bird is a bon voyage gift for a friend heading overseas. The beautifully co-ordinated fabric is from Deb at Works in Progress. Deb is hosting A Present A Week {Till Christmas} and every week she gives away a half-yard of fabric, and I was the lucky winner not once but twice! Have you started on your Christmas sewing yet? Join Deb and enter the weekly draw.

The delightful pattern was lent to me by our friend Lynne who works at our local fabric shop (we see her often). It's a pincushion, with pockets in its wings for small scissors and seam ripper, a needle keeper in its tail and a spool of thread around its neck. It's Lyn Hosford's 'Stitchers Friend' pattern, from the book Flower Bed Threads, published by Need'l Love.The small pieces of wool and felt I used for the wings came from a big bag of felt pieces Lynne gave me.

The Bug has been finding nests for this and his other birds. Lynne made this beautiful green one for the Bug using this free pattern from Spool.

And here is the blue and green pin-keeper bird Lynne gave to the Bug, next to the one we made for Lynne. And once again we made that one with fabric from Deb. It's like a global/ local collaboration. Thank you Lynne and Deb!

I'm linking up to Fabric Tuesday over on Quiltstory. See you there!